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Polyphonic Drum Machine

Polyphonic Drum Machine

Sebastian Tomczak’s DIY Polyphonic Drum Machine and Rhythm Looper is powered by a Teensy micrcontroller. I’ve made a simple drum machine / looper. It is for Teensy but it can be easily ported to Arduino. It has four sounds, a 16-subdivision pattern, variable sample rate and can playback all four sounds at once.

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Servo Control Direct from Ableton Live

Servo Control Direct from Ableton Live

Sebastian Tomczak is able to control a servo directly from Ableton using a Teensy.

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New in the Maker Shed: Arduino Leonardo

New in the Maker Shed: Arduino Leonardo

The Arduino Leonardo is now available in the Maker Shed! It features all the capabilities of the Arduino Uno plus additional funcationality that will open up a whole new range of projects!

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DIY Wooden Gaming Pedals

DIY Wooden Gaming Pedals

Redditor Soonermandan’s first DIY project is this set of three wooden pedals which he built to use while playing Battlefield 3. No word yet if his project has given him a competitive advantage during gameplay.

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The Call Someone Who Cares Button

The Call Someone Who Cares Button

Based on The Awesome Button, Les made a one step boss dialer by hooking an emergency button into his employer’s IP telephone system. Inside the button is a Teensy board, which connects to his computer via USB. A C# app on his computer listens for the pause/break key from the Teensy and makes an HTTP […]

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How-To: USB Reddit Upvote Button

How-To: USB Reddit Upvote Button

Chris from The New Hobbyist created this nice 3D printed USB peripheral which lets him easily vote on Reddit stories. Based on The Awesome Button project, Chris’s button sends USB keyboard commands from a Teensy USB to the Reddit Enhancement Suite, a browser extension for Redditors. If you want to make your own, Chris has […]

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Father and Son Build Awesome Button

Father and Son Build Awesome Button

Nick Carter and his son Henry were browsing Goodwill when Henry spotted a Staples Easy Button for sale and wanted to try using it to make an Awesome Button, our DIY USB synonym generator project. Neither of them had much experience with electronics projects, and despite some difficulty with the soldering iron, they managed to […]

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