Here’s an Instructable on building a breadboard VU meter around the LM3916 (or LM3915/LM3914) dot/bar display driver chip. We even get treated to the pounded out volume units of that ’80s Siouxsie & the Banshees classic “Peek-a-Boo.” LM3915/LM3916 VU Meter
Join me, won’t you? – as I travel back in time to assemble the New Edison Cup-style Phonograph.
Tiny “boom” box, built from a Lucky Strikes tin, an old MP3 player, an LM1877n-9 amp chip, and some garage sale speaks. It’s dubbed the “Mobile Oppression Unit.” Can it really be THAT loud? Or maybe it’s the likely lo-fidelity when cranked that makes it oppressive. Mobile Oppression Unit
From the MAKE Flickr photo pool Ranjit from Brooklyn created this pleasant device and displayed it at the recent Figment Festival – seems a prime candidate to replace the windchime, hmm … windstring? – come see and hear this– um– whatever it is
Peter Blasser is President and Designer of the electronic instrument producing entity known as Ciat-Lonbarde. The device plans on their site display a refreshing ability for incorporating chance and forcing experimentation – evidenced by instructions from the Paper Circuits collection (which almost simultaneously do and don’t make sense). […] resistors with an X can be […]
Gmoon wrote a hefty(22-step!) how-to for constructing your own sweet-sounding tube based guitar amp. Even if you’re not planning on specifically building this project, there’s a lot of really helpful details told from the maker’s perspective (even some informative regrets) – No project is without lessons learned. In this case, I wish I had: –Used […]
Paul Freedman of Rock the Bike fitted a utility bicycle with instrument rack + seat – thus creating a mobile music performance vehicle. This demo vid shows the maiden voyage his friend Janaysa on vocals/keyboard – would’ve been nice to hear them ride through my neighborhood. Just imagine all the other instruments this could carry, […]
