iPhone

The Ocarina of iPhone?

The iPhone is proving to be quite a platform for portable music apps. This new digital ocarina from Smule aims to convert Apple’s wonder-phone into an expressive and nuanced instrument all its own – The Ocarina synthesizes sound in real-time, just like a regular instrument, based on actual gestures including wind input, tilt, and finger […]

How-to: Hacking RjDj with PD

How-to: Hacking RjDj with PD

RjDj is a sound application for the Apple iPhone* that allows users to access “scenes” that transform sound that comes in through the microphone and allows additional tweakage via the the iPhone’s accelerometer and touch screen. But did you know that RjDj’s scenes are made with PD (PureData), a free, open-source multimedia programming environment that […]

iPhonola

iPhonola

One of our readers sent in this project that uses a vintage record player as a base for an iPhone dock. I love adding new functionality to discarded antiques. Check out the link for more pictures of the build. Umm… Yeah. So, about a month ago, I found an old Waters-Conley Phonola “portable” record player […]

iPhone sculpture

iPhone sculpture

Wow, this is a pretty intense iPhone sculpture via Giz. The assignment was “to create a pedestal to hold our ‘precious object,’” Buckner tells Mac|Life. “As everyone around me would have guessed, I chose my iPhone. Our pedestal had to be mostly made out of wood, and relate to our precious object.” Given the amazing […]