Ryan from New-Zealand is at it again, slowly turning his home into Bill Gate’s mansion with video screens everywhere. This time, he hacked a picture frame into a video monitor displaying the live image from a webcam. Have a peek.
16 Dec
This cool project turns a boring Ikea lamp into a theremin-like synth. Pretty cool. I really like the updated instructions — but real instructions would be nice too. I guess this is more a show piece than a how-to. Nonetheless, it can still inspire someone so I’m posting it anyways. One thing I’d add is [...]
15 Mar
This is a project that will surely please guitarists, singers, or any other musicians that play on stage. Basically, you gut out a USB keyboard, keeping only the electronics and you build a pedal that you map to specific keys. This allows you to either scroll down a document (partitions, tablatures, lyrics, etc.) or even [...]
25 Feb
Great hack for Canon Nikon D200 owners: make a relatively cheap GPS that will transmit coordinates to the camera. Take a picture, and it gets stamped with the GPS coordinates. Not too shabby. I guess this would be great for traveling bloggers, photojournalists, or even artistic projects. Canon Nikon D200 hotshoe GPS [link][via] 2009-01-06: Correction. [...]
23 Feb
I love this: it’s cheap, effective and pretty simple to do. Basically, you take a 2$ Radio Shack piezoelectric transducer and use it as pickup. One thing bothers me a bit though: you need to drill a hole in the guitar to fit the jack. I’m quite sure there’s a way to go around this. [...]
10 Dec
Check out these instructions on how to build your first synthesizer. Granted, it’s not a Jupiter-8, but it’s fun to build, fun to play with, and cheap to build too. You can also bend it if you want to get even crazier sounds out of it. I built one myself last year, so I [...]
07 Dec
First of all, what is Circuit Bending? Wikipedia defines it as follows: Circuit bending is the creative short-circuiting of low voltage, battery-powered electronic devices such as guitar effects, children’s toys and small synthesizers to create new musical instruments and sound generators. Emphasizing spontaneity and randomness, the techniques of circuit bending have been commonly associated with [...]
29 Jan