Dr Who Theme on 8 floppy drives
May 11, 2012 – 9:10 am | No Comment

MrSolidSnake745 has put together eight floppy drives, an Arduino, some cabling, a computer and software created by Sammy1Am to make something incredible – the stepper motors from eight floppy drives playing the Dr Who theme!
Basically, …

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Midi controlled stepper motor music
June 25, 2009 – 2:32 pm | No Comment
Midi controlled stepper motor music

Michael is a 26-year old PhD candidate in Aerospace Engineering at Georgia Tech, and also an amateur musician. He’s set the geek radar off the charts with this little piece of midi-to-machine musical …

Free DIY Minimoog
June 22, 2009 – 9:12 pm | 5 Comments
Free DIY Minimoog

The Moog Minimoog is one of my favorite all-time synths. It was the first synthesizer that I played that produced a sound that I could almost see (see synesthesia).
Of course the only problem with …

DIY Matchbook Synth
June 12, 2009 – 4:13 pm | One Comment
DIY Matchbook Synth

Ranjit Bhatnagar loves making homemade instruments. We featured him in a story on the mobius music box earlier, and here’s another gem that he’s put together: the matchbook synthesizer.

Ranjit says:
In my junkbox I …