Daniel Park describes his approach to controlling circuit bent Alesis QSR Quadrasynth through MIDI data, simplifying control for musicians -With this design I wanted the entire bent interface under MIDI control. Any MIDI source: MIDI cc’s, program changes, tempo synch, MIDI machine commands, notation can be routed to any destination on the circui...
Here's an older project by Micah Dowty, that I just found out about: a homebrew soft circuit RFID tag. Not content to just make a homebrew RFID reader using a Propeller microcontroller, he proceede[...]
Another interesting sound project which made its public debut at Handmade Music Austin - the SimSam sample rate cruncher designed by Dann Green of 4ms Pedals.Unveiled at the beginner's class at Hand[...]
MAKE contributor Michael Una shares his experience hacking the Bliptronic 5000 melody sequencer - First, I replaced the internal crystal with a Getlofi Precision Oscillator kit. That was easy, and[...]
Adam writes to us from Melbourne, Australia: This is seriously cool, open source, too (running Gentoo). Basically it's a MIDI controller, built into a guitar, with a pressure-sensitive touch screen[...]
I don’t remember exactly where at work I found this empty labelmaker cartridge, but this view isn’t what caught my attention. Here’s what piqued my interest — a tiny PC board inside the cartr[...]
GetLoFi posted this demo of a hacked Korg Kaossilator with a variable clock, resulting in some sweet time/pitch stretches -Sometimes newer devices get overlooked for purposes of circuit bending. T[...]
The STiDP888 and STiDP880 form what the company calls the industry's first bridge chipset for the proposed iDP standard to LVDS translation for use in next-generation LCD TVs[...]
The STiDP888 and STiDP880 form what the company calls the industry's first bridge chipset for the proposed iDP standard to LVDS translation for use in next-generation LCD TVs[...]
Have you ever been in a situation where you needed to get up to go do something, but didn't want to leave a game for fear your system would go to sleep while you were away and you couldn't use a s[...]
Berkeley Design Automation Inc has announced AFS RF (Analog FastSpice radio frequency), which Chief Operating Officer Paul Estrada calls the industry’s first true Spice-accurate noise-analysis tool [...]