History of Synthesizers: 1950 to 1970
June 11, 2013 – 7:42 am | No Comment

Previously we discussed how the synthesizer started to come to be from its earliest days as the 200 ton teleharmonium up until the creation of the trautonium (and mixtur-trautonium) in the 1930s and 40s, but …

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Arduino drum machine + synth module with MIDI input
January 10, 2013 – 8:45 am | No Comment
Arduino drum machine + synth module with MIDI input

Arduino MEGA was used for the drum machine and Arduino UNO for the synth module with a MIDI input. Both are enclosed in a “groovebox”.
Two outputs (one for the drum machine and one for the …

Now that’s what I call MIDI!
December 22, 2010 – 9:04 pm | No Comment
Now that’s what I call MIDI!

Internet Archaeology is an organization that “seeks to explore, recover, archive and showcase the graphic artifacts found within earlier Internet Culture.”
Basically, they want to save early internet content to acknowledge its importance, and save …

Beatfly: The MIDI flying blimp
June 25, 2010 – 8:56 pm | 3 Comments
Beatfly: The MIDI flying blimp

A short time ago, we introduced you to the Velosynth, an open-source bicycle synthesizer, but now we’ve got an entirely new vehicular MIDI machine: the Beatfly.

The Beatfly, created by Hideki Yoshimoto, is a small DIY …

The MIDI suit
October 31, 2009 – 3:33 pm | One Comment
The MIDI suit

Sonalog is a company based out of Brighton, UK and they’ve put together the first commercially-available MIDI body suit. The ”Gypsy Motion Capture MIDI Controller” is an exoskeleton that is worn outside the clothes …

The Humanthesizer: Bikini-clad midi controller
August 15, 2009 – 11:25 pm | No Comment
The Humanthesizer: Bikini-clad midi controller

The Humanthesizer is a collaboration between Calvin Harris and masters students from the Royal College of Art’s Industrial Design Engineering programme. It uses bikini clad girls covered in special conductive paint to form a …

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 …