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[poprhythm]’s Touch Tone MIDI Phone is a fantastic conversion of an old touch tone phone into a MIDI instrument complete with intact microphone, but this project isn’t just about showing …read more Continue reading Touch Tone MIDI Phone And Vocoder Covers Daft Punk
What would you call a word clock that doesn’t tell time? The concept of a word clock is that all the words needed to be used are already there and …read more Continue reading Daft Punk Word Clock Goes Stronger and Faster
It’s with sadness that we note the end to an end. The French dance music duo Daft Punk have split up, announced in a video that’s has already clocked 22 million views.The band have inspired hardware geeks across the world …read more
Continue reading An Homage To Daft Punk In Fan-Made Helmets Through The Years.
There’s no single formula for success, but if we’ve learned anything over the years of covering cons, contests, and hackathons, it’s that, just like in geology, pressure can create diamonds. Give yourself an impossible deadline with high stakes, and chances are good that something interesting will result. That’s what Estefannie from the YouTube channel “Estefannie Explains It All” did when Bay Area Maker Faire was rolling around last year, and she stopped by the 2018 Hackaday Superconference to talk about the interactive Daft Punk helmet that came out of it.
It’s a rapid-fire tour of Estefannie’s remarkably polished replica of …read more
Continue reading Hackaday Superconference: Estefannie’s Daft Punk Helmet
The iconic robot helmets of Daft Punk feature prominently as challenging DIY hardware projects in their own right, and the results never disappoint. But [Nathaniel Stepp]’s photo gallery of his own version really sets the bar in both quality and attention to detail. The helmet uses a Teensy 3.2 as the main processor, and the visor consists of 328 hand soldered through-hole APA106 addressable RGB LEDs. A laser cut panel serves as the frame for the LEDs, and it was heat-formed to curve around the helmet and mate into the surrounding frame. Each LED is meticulously hand-soldered, complete with its …read more
Continue reading Gaze Upon This Daft Punk Helmet’s Rows of Utterly Perfect Hand-Soldered LEDs
If you’ve been paying even a little bit of attention to popular music over the past couple of decades, then you’re surely aware of the electronic music duo Daft Punk. Of course, their success isn’t just a result of their music – a big part of it is also their iconic costumes and persona. What makes those costumes iconic is the robot helmets that the musicians wear. What initially began as a desire to hide their faces ended up becoming their most distinctive trait.
The helmets that the duo wears have changed over the years, but an homage helmet …read more
