Remix Contest: Sounds from the Large Hadron Collider
December 30, 2010 – 10:05 pm | 416 Comments

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the world’s largest particle accelerator that resides in a tunnel 27km in circumference beneath the earth near Geneva, Switzerland.
The purpose of the LHC is to help us understand some …

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Robot DJ’s set to take over the world
June 18, 2010 – 1:08 pm | No Comment
Robot DJ’s set to take over the world

Robots have never exactly been thought of as the grooviest types, but the “Juke Bot” is really trying hard to change that image.

The Juke Bot is a pair of Kuka industrial robots – each one …

Auto-synchronization of metronomes
June 2, 2010 – 10:20 pm | One Comment
Auto-synchronization of metronomes

This is a really interesting effect – 5 metronomes all placed on the same piece of material will eventually synchronize themselves ‘automagically’:

Very fascinating to watch, I even got a little rush when they all clicked. …

The evolution of PC audio
May 21, 2010 – 11:20 am | One Comment
The evolution of PC audio

Many of us take fantastic sound from our computers for granted these days, but PC audio has come a very long way since I bought my TRS-80 Color Computer a very long time ago (which …

Steam-powered synthesizer
May 19, 2010 – 3:23 pm | One Comment
Steam-powered synthesizer

One of the last things that I would think of to be steam powered would be any sort of electronic device, let alone a synthesizer. Well Lorin Parker and Sarah Seelig, whom we …

Korg Monotron Wii Nunchuck hack
May 19, 2010 – 10:49 am | One Comment
Korg Monotron Wii Nunchuck hack

We’re huge fans of the Korg Monotron here at Synthgear, and gadgeteers Denkitribe have hacked one to respond to a Wii Nunchuck.

The Nunchuck controller is rigged up to the Monotron using the WiiChuck adapter, which …

The Machine: DIY Instrument Made From Scavenged Car Horns
May 18, 2010 – 11:03 am | 5 Comments
The Machine: DIY Instrument Made From Scavenged Car Horns

Llyn Foulkes is an artist and music from Los Angeles who likes to do things a bit differently. His website says:
LLyn Foulkes has been called the Zelig of contemporary art. Over the past five …

Cell phone keytar
May 10, 2010 – 2:44 pm | No Comment
Cell phone keytar

From the crazy-weird file, Steffest from Belgium has created a DIY cell-phone-keytar monstrosity. The Phone Guitar was born out of a presentation about mobile cross development that Steffest was working on.

He says:
Music apps …

Korg Monotron Demo
April 29, 2010 – 5:19 pm | 3 Comments
Korg Monotron Demo

A few weeks ago, we reported on the new Korg Monotron synthesizer, a $67 synth from Korg with a touch-sensitive keyboard. The battery-powered synth is a full-featured analogue synth, with VCO, LFO and VCF …

8-bit arcade guitar synth
April 29, 2010 – 7:53 am | 4 Comments
8-bit arcade guitar synth

Mike Davenport has hand-built an 8-bit “arcade guitar” synthesizer as part of a DIY senior project for his studies at the University of Florida. Inspired by classic video game consoles, it uses an FPGA (field-programmable …

Thermatron: the flame-controlled synthesizer
April 28, 2010 – 12:50 pm | No Comment
Thermatron: the flame-controlled synthesizer

It’s fairly well known that a flame can actually conduct electricity. For example, many hot water heaters use this principle – a current is passed through the flame, which allows the the heater …