posted Apr 19th 2010 12:00pm by Mike Szczys
filed under: digital audio hacks,
musical hacks
The
silent drum is played with your hands. It acts as a midi device by
analyzing the movement of the rubbery black drum head. As you can see in
the photo, one side of the body is clear and the other is white. A
light shines up into it to boost the contrast and a camera picks up the
black head as it moves past the white side of the shell. [Jaime Oliver]
has provided an interesting look at the analysis
method used with this instrument and there’s also a
system of notating a composition for future performance. See and
hear it played in the demo after the break.
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posted Apr 20th 2010 11:53am by Mike Szczys
filed under: classic hacks,
musical hacks
[Robert Pickering] shares his automated guitar
pickup winder with us. He built it for his senior project at Old
Dominion University. Two stepper motors are used to wind the magnet wire
around the pickup hardware. The unit is PIC based and about six minutes
into the video (embedded after the break) you can see that he used wire
wrapping for this build. Curious, one of the comments on our
latest Hackaday Links mentioned that wire wrapping was rarely used
anymore, but here it is anyway.
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One of our customers, Lucía Jurado Bautista playing a Schoenhut Toy Piano
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MusicFriends, We Need Your Help!
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America's Giving Challenge, organized by Causes, The Case Foundation, and Parade Magazine encourages people to leverage social networks to support nonprofits. It rewards the nonprofit Cause that receives the most unique donations from October 7 through November 6 with a $50,000 award from the Case Foundation. The goal is not to raise the most money, but to build collective action in support of a cause.
  
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 I'm not exactly on holiday. I'm on a business trip to Spain, to inspect the workshops of some of the best guitar luthiers in the world. Natrually, i need to have regular and reliable phone and email communication with my home office in Carlsbad, California and i will also need to have a phone to call hotels, car rental, business associates and other people and services within Spain while traveling. It would also be great to use the GPS and map service built into my iPhone as well as the email and web browser, in addition to the email and web browser on my laptop computer. Of course I want to do this as cost effectively as possible. So i will tell you how I am doing it. Read on.....
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