Collaborate Disseminate
Bose Wave stereo systems were legitimately innovative when they launched in the 90s—as was Bose itself. The marketing might make you forget that, though. Continue reading The Story of the Bose Wave, the Stereo System Built for the Infomercial Era
Sometimes Hackaday runs in closed-loop mode: one hacker makes something, we post it, another hacker sees it and makes something else, and we post it, spiraling upward to cooler and cooler hacks. This is one of those times.
One of our favorite junk-sound-artists and musical magicians, [Gijs Gieskes], made this magnetic-levitation, rubber-band, percussive zither thing after seeing our coverage of another magnetic levitation trick. Both of them simply have a Hall sensor controlling a coil, which suspends a magnet in mid-air. It’s a dead-simple circuit that we’ll probably try out as soon as we stop typing.
But [Gijs] took the …read more
Spidey senses are tingling (literally). Continue reading Jumping Spiders Can ‘Hear’ Using Their Leg Hairs
There are a lot of unusual listings on eBay. If you’re wondering why someone would have a need for shredded cash, or a switchblade comb, or some “unicorn meat” (whatever that is), we’re honestly wondering the same thing. Sometimes, though, a listing that most people would consider bizarre finds its way to the workbench of someone with a little imagination. That was the case when [tinkartank] found three pipe organ pipes on eBay, bought them, and then built his own drivers.
The pipes have pitches of C, D, and F# (which make, as far we can tell, a C add9 …read more
By playing carefully constructed melodies, researchers were able to move small objects toward their intended target. Continue reading Watch Researchers Use Sound to Move Multiple Objects With Precision
For a brief period in the 1940’s it might have been possible for a young enamored soul to hand his hopeful a romantic mix-spool of wire. This was right before the magnetic tape recorder and its derivatives came into full swing and dominated the industry thoroughly until the advent of the compact disk and under a hundred kilogram hard disk drives. [Techmoan] tells us all about it in this video.
The device works as one would expect, but it still sounds a little crazy. Take a ridiculously long spool of steel wire the size of a human hair(a 1 hour …read more
Continue reading A Tech That Didn’t Make It: Sound On Stainless Steel Wire
Continue reading 3D Printer Enclosure Is Pleasant On The Eyes And Ears
I augmented an M. Ward concert with Here Active Listening’s bionic ears. Continue reading These Earbuds Are Like Instagram Filters for Live Music
“Notes on Blindness” is a beautiful example of using sound to tell a story in virtual reality. Continue reading The Best VR Experience at Tribeca Film Festival Was All About Sound
Sound is essential to how the brain orients in space, so without audio that faithfully mimics reality, the illusion is lost. Continue reading Why Are We Still Listening to Music in Two Dimensions?
