Division 6 is shipping Midify, a tiny board that can add a MIDI port to just about anything. It’s $35, and can be installed directly into a GBA, GBA-SP, DS or DS Lite, or with some extra parts you can interface it with other devices. Features: 12 outputs Outputs can be active-high or active-low Map… Read More Midify Anything
The Internet has given circuit bending, the process of hands-on experimentation with battery-powered electronic noise making circuits, a life of its own. If you look hard enough, you’ll find that somebody, somewhere, has circuit bent just about any electrical toy or gadget that you can imagine. Here are thirteen of the most bizarre examples of… Read More 13 Bizarre Circuit Bent Children’s Toys
Over at The Steampunk Workshop, Jake von Slatt has a nice write up on a Jules Verne inspired analog synthesizer with etched brass control panels. While we’ve seen hundreds of nice modular synths, you have to admit the etched brass panels on this are pretty sextacular. Here’s what the synth’s creator has to say about… Read More Awesome Steampunk Modular Synthesizer
Clockwork Robot has introduced a solar powered theremin kit: This is an electronics kit suitable for beginners but it DOES require some soldering. With very few parts you can build a tiny solar powered theremin enclosed in an ALTOIDS mint tin. So when the oil runs out, the ice caps melt and civilization crumbles to… Read More Build A Solar Powered Theremin
The Quantix-8 module is a CV Quantizer / Wavetable Oscillator based on a 4Mbits Static RAM memory and a PIC microcontroler with a full MIDI implementation. The memory contain 2048 waveforms of 256bytes organized into a matrix of 32 Banks x 64 Waves. The Quantix-8 is a very polyvalent 7 in 1 module CV-Quantizer Wavetable… Read More The Quantix-8 Synth Module
BeatMachine – Amateur is a DIY project that uses a webcam and a computer to turn a sheet of paper and some bottle caps into a drum machine. This is totally MacGiver – but you gotta love it, too. Unfortunately, the creator’s site is in Polish. If you can read it, give us the run down… Read More BeatMachine: A Paper Drum Machine
The Atari Punk Capsule is a fun synth DIY project that to make a synth, or at least an electronic sound generator, into a pill bottle. See also Worth Ekik’s other DIY projects.
OT: I love hypnotic electronic music, especially when you’ve got some trippy visuals to go with it. Dynamically generated visuals seem like a natural pairing with live electronic music. The Metalab Metamatrix is a fantastic DIY project that uses 3456 Leds,1 FPGA, 1 mini ITX board and the contributions of over 20 people. If you know of any… Read More Awesome LED Visualizer
Some interesting footage of Stephen Hobley testing out his DIY laser harp. Says Stephen: The visuals look great, but the sound is out of sync (we’re not film-makers!). In retrospect we should have had more people working on the different parts of the shoot. How tired was I when we shot this? We’d been setting… Read More Laser Harp Test Footage
Widgetfreak explains how he built a “ghetto talk box”, using a toilet plunger, an old speaker, some tube and a cheap-ass synth keyboard. Here’s mootbooxie’s take on making a ghetto talk box: What can you do with a ghetto talk box, once you’ve taped together all your old junk? Well, you can make a talk… Read More Build A Ghetto Talk Box
