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Gakken synth guitar mod

YouTuber Startwave’s SX-150 guitar is rather excellent – a quick and terrible demonstration of my modded sx-150. i replaced the original slide thingy with a softpot from trossen robotics and i added an fsr (force sensitive resistor) to control volume or crazy resonance distortion (if the res is switched on). sounds nice, very expressive and […]

360-ified SG

Photo from adcurtin This tip came in from the comments: Here’s my mod from back in the day before GH3 for x360 (I preferred the sg to the xplorer): He goes on: I hate the X-plorer with a passion, mostly the fret buttons, but the whammy bar and the part that gets in the way […]

RFID network music player

RFID network music player

Make subscriber Nic used Arduino plus Parallax RFID reader/tags to make his Squeezebox network music player a bit more physically intuitive/interactive. I’m not the first to think of controlling music with RFID, somebody made a pretty neat player called PlayStand way back in 2002. But its RFID reader was plugged directly into the PC. I […]