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 [...]
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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 [...]
A fellow Site 3 member brought some beautiful old floorboards into the shop recently. The wood is wonderful – really dense, hard, and pretty. I took a couple of offcuts destined for the wood stove, cleaned them up and made a nice new cutting board for my kitchen at home: Patching things up… Those slices [...]
Hobgob Stereo Tube Amp Kit purchaser and enterprising maker Karim recently sent me some pictures of his completed amp. They are great! It’s really exciting to see someone build something that you helped put together. I like his idea of using alligator clips to connect the speaker terminals to the output transformers. That way you [...]
Jameson Young recently built himself a rad pair of BeatSneaks using my designs. He plans to make a system of pads that will go all over the body: “Think step dancing meets beatboxing. Amplified.” How exciting! I like them. Check it out: Jameson’s build reminded me of this project by Jason Hockman at McGill. It’s [...]
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This convenient suitcase-based drumset reminds me of my slightly less convenient portable junk guitar. Neato. via make
This past summer I added an RFID access control system to one of the labs of a certain professor. I designed a PCB to control up to six electric strikes with an Arduino. It’s a straightforward circuit that switches 12V onto half a dozen transistors. It’s meant to work with iClass R15 RFID readers from [...]
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This one. Whoa! It’s a blurb about the BeatSneaks entitled “Dance to Your Own Melody” in the back in the Yellow Pages section. So famous right now. You should read it, it’s a very nice magazine full of colourful pictures.