Collaborate Disseminate
If there’s something more tedious than winding coils, we’re not sure what it is — possibly rolling and wrapping coins; that’s really a bother. But luckily, just like there are …read more Continue reading All-Mechanical Coil Winder is a Scrap-Bin Delight
What does portability in a keyboard mean to you? For Hackaday alum [Brian McEvoy], the image evokes that quintessential 80s instrument, the keytar. But those left-hand keys aren’t just for …read more Continue reading Keebin’ with Kristina: The One with the QWERTY Drum Set
If there’s only lesson to be learned from [alnwlsn]’s conversion of an IBM Selectric typewriter into a serial terminal for Linux, it’s that we’ve been hanging around the wrong garbage …read more Continue reading Selectric Typewriter Goes from Trash Can to Linux Terminal
Mechanical keyboards are muchly adored things. For many of us, they take us back to that loud clickity-clack that was so common before consumer keyboards went to membrane switches. For …read more Continue reading Solenoid Keyboard Sounds Very Much Like a Typewriter
When it comes to mechanical keyboards, there’s no end to the amount of customization that can be done. The size and layout of the keyboard is the first thing to …read more Continue reading Taking Mechanical Keyboard Sounds to the Next Level
[RyderCalmDown] was watching a road painting vehicle lay down fresh stripes on the road one day and started thinking about the mechanism that lets it paint stripes in such a …read more Continue reading Is This The World’s Largest Dot Matrix Printer?
Although many people might remember the recorder as just a simple instrument from their introductory music classes, it can nevertheless produce rich and varied melodies in the hands of a …read more Continue reading Musical Robot Lets You Play the Recorder Hands-Free
A “Check Engine” light on your dashboard could mean anything from a loose gas cap to a wallet-destroying repair in the offing. For [Dean Segovis], his CEL was indicating a …read more Continue reading Replace Your Automatic Transmission With a Bunch of Relays
When Johnny Cash wrote “Ring of Fire”, he was talking about love. But when an unnamed follower of [TheBackyardScientist] took it literally and suggested making actual rings of fire — …read more Continue reading Love Is a Burning Flame, and So Is This Underwater Burning Ring of Fire
The MIDI format has long been used to create some banging electronic music, so it’s refreshing to see how [John P. Miller] applied the standard in his decidedly analog self-playing …read more Continue reading Robotic Xylophone Makes Music with MIDI Magic