Boombox bikes
Oobject has a fun round-up of the sonic assault vehicles known as boombox bikes. And you thought that kid on the bus with the Walmart special slung over his shoulder was obnoxious. This one comes with instructions. Boombox bikes
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Make your own radio programming
[Photo from MetroMode] Michael Jackson’s death caused radio’s roboprogrammers to take a back seat for a while. Increasingly, over the past few decades, broadcast radio has ceased to be a local affair. As the FCC regulations on local ownership of media outlets has faded towards corporate behemoths, radio programming more and more these days is […]
Hardware/software synth for Arduino
Gijs posted details for building his “Hardware” Software Synthesizer 2 project using Arduino compatible parts. His prototype combines all components onto a standalone board but it appears this could easily be adapted to a standard Arduino. Altogether, it’s a whole lot of functionality with a relatively low part count. Features include – 6-bit resistor DAC […]
Tim Kaiser at Make: Day this weekend!
Rounding out the musical performances at this weekend’s Make: Day will be Tim Kaiser, an awesome Maker who creates music from his own handmade instruments. Tim will have about 15 different instruments and audio fx units along with a small amplifier. He’ll also have some simple instruments, parts and piezo-electric pick-ups available to demonstrate basic […]
Keston and Westdal at Make: Day
Make: television is honored to welcome the sounds of Keston and Westdal to Make: Day. Their approach involves improvising the arrangements and musical content by combining traditional and nontraditional methods. John Keston is one half of the band and the founder of Audio Cookbook, an awesome resource for sound designers, artists, and anyone who loves […]
Beat sequencer from Meggy + WaveShield
Flickr user solipsistnation created this rather awesome sample sequencer using Meggy Jr. and an Arduino WaveShield – The Meggy Jr RGB from Evil Mad Science running MeggySeq, driving a Wave Shield from Lady Ada. MeggySeq is a pattern-based drum machine sequencer. It has 8 patterns of 16 steps each and each step can play one […]
Roll your own stereo turntable
The thought never occurred to me: scratch-building your own turntable. Paulo Rebordao writes: This is a record player complete with a servo controlled arm that I’ve designed and built during the last 10 months. It has a few unusual features and I think it looks Way Cool!!! Besides some general info on the workings, I […]
