Well, that didn’t take very long. Filmmaker Ryan Varga made this short documentary about maker culture, filmed at the very recent Toronto Mini Maker Faire. See if you can spot all the Site 3 members!
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This weekend, Site 3 and the Treehouse Group held the first ever Toronto Mini Maker Faire: “Toronto Mini Maker Faire is the ultimate celebration of making, crafting, DIY-ing, tinkering, hacking and sharing. It’s a weekend where makers of all kinds will show off their projects and hold how-to workshops, with hands-on activities for all ages. [...]
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Here’s another piece from the Elektra Festival! The Cycloid-E is a sort of multi-pendulum with five segments, one connected to the other, each with a sound system in it. As the central segment moves, it induces chaotic oscillations in the other segments, and emits all sorts of strange and exciting sounds. At the festival it [...]
This week I’ve been checking out the Elektra Festival in Montreal. It’s a celebration of electronic/digital art and media. So far it’s been pretty great! One of the especially cool pieces here is the Daredroid. It’s a dress that mixes a cocktail for you in exchange for a round of Truth or Dare. It was [...]
CBS Morning reports on Pat Metheney’s robotic musical accompaniment, much of which was made by Eric Singer and the League of Electronic Musical Urban Robots (LEMUR). I interned with LEMUR while many of the pieces in this band were being made, all the way back in 2009. It’s great to see everything in action.
An andantephone is an instrument that allows a player to step through the notes of a song as if they were walking along its timeline. Most andantephones (so far) consist of a series of tiles, one tile for each note in a song. A player can walk from tile to tile, actuating the notes with [...]
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Check out my latest stereo tube amp! Except for the knobs and paint, it was built entirely from the parts included in my fabulous Hobgob Stereo Tube Amp Kit, which is based on the circuit for poindexter’s Musical Machine. Just like the kit, it’s a push-pull amp that uses 6V6 tubes to give you about [...]
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Very nice BeatSneaks-like project from Didier Brun for Adidas: Sweet moves. Coincidentally, I actually constructed a very similar device last year, using many of the same tools: XBee radios, force-sensitive resistors, and Processing. Here are some pictures of that prototype: There’s some hardware debouncing on the module there, and then the XBees and Processing handle [...]
Had to post this when I saw it on boingboing: “Daphne Oram (1925-2003) was the co-founder and first director of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, a sound effects and music studio established in the 1950s that had a vast influence on electronic music and synthesizer technology.” She made all sorts of gigantic, messy synthesizers full of [...]