It’s about time somebody made a media award that actually does something other than serve as a impromptu murder weapon. At this years SXSW festival, the Web Awards were built around Bleep Labs’ Thingamagoop 2, the analog synth toy (which now has digital/Arduino-control capability). Bleep Labs In the Maker Shed: Thingamagoop 2 Our Price: $100.00 […]
Fawning fanboys (and fangirls) of analog synths may want to hold onto their wigs and keys before laying eyes on synth pioneer Vince Clarke’s “cabin” in Maine. Clarke was a founding member of Depeche Mode, Yazoo, and Erasure. In this vid, he gives Motherboard the grand tour of his studio in the woods and his […]
Flickr user syano made this stylish Clothtylophone, a functional cross-stitch Stylophone.
Drew Crawford made this excellent-sounding piezo speaker sound library for the Arduino. A demonstration of the library in action starts at 3 minutes into the above video, and the library can be downloaded from his code repository.
Cirtcele built a synth sequencer module using a dekatron vacuum tube display – The clock circuit includes a relay which clacks away somewhat charmingly. The relay noise does not get into the sound path of the synth, it is just the noise the synth makes whilst operating. Sound is recorded over the camera’s microphone so […]
From the MAKE Flickr pool JoeLMutantE’s DIY step sequencer looks about as high-end as it gets. Dubbed the Project Stella, the rack-mountable monster was created as an antidote to standard linear interfaces – Stella is an analog step sequencer based on an old P3 sequencer kit. It has been made trying to make some different […]
The Electric Peasant’s Banjo Processor takes the traditional instrument to sonic realms few have dared before, using a pitch-to-voltage converter along with a collection of bonus features – When The Peasant built the SynthCase project, a keyboard was not included, as playing one is not something that he has ever learned to do. However, The […]
