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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 …
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. …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
