Here’s a vid showing just a few of the many musical interfaces on hand at Bay Area Maker Faire. There were so many cool instruments, yet so little time to play them all. It was truly awesome to see such a great turnout on the sonic front – big thanks to all who made it […]
Michael writes – Hey Makers! I’ve been busy building my very own MIDI-controlled Drumbot using the HighlyLiquid MIDI decoder kit. I’m going to be conducting a workshop detailing how to build and implement the kit on Friday, May 2 as part of BENT festival Minneapolis. Free kits will be given to workshop participants, limited to […]
From the MAKE Flickr photo pool Ludo_d built a custom MIDI touchpad controller using Arduino – Started from a scavenged Cirque Glidepoint resistive touchpad (PS/2 compatible), 2×8 LCD (in 4 bit mode), two buttons and a serial Arduino board. The buttons when pressed allow to set the Continuous Controller number by gliding the finger on […]
From the MAKE Flickr photo pool Recotana is at it again with another very cool MIDI/body interface. This time the user is stimulated by the MIDI signal via electrode interface – an interesting way of getting someone to ‘feel’ the rhythm! – Electric click on Flickr Related: Heartbeat MIDI controller
Submitted for your viewing pleasure – A demo video for the “beamz Music Performance System” laser-controlled preprogrammed MIDI gating device targeted @ non-musicians. I don’t think it’s possible to list all of the memorable moments seen in the above video, at the very least they’re quirky, at most borderline-offensive. (The $599 pricetag alone could raise […]
