Collaborate Disseminate
Remember Martin Molin’s Music Machine X, the mechanical, musical Rube Goldberg machine that uses some 3,000 components and a hand-turned crank to drop marbles in sequences onto acoustic and electric surfaces? A ridiculously complex way to make music, b… Continue reading Love Hultén’s marvelously complex mini marble-dropping music machine
Swiss engineers have developed a new wireless audio system for musicians called the T.One, which offers low latency transmission and the ability to control the mix through a mobile app.Continue ReadingCategory: Music, TechnologyTags: Wireless, Instrume… Continue reading Cable-free audio system puts a mixing desk in your pocket
It may look like a strange version of Reversi, but the Striso MIDI controller from Piers Titus van der Torren out of the Netherlands is designed to offer players the same kind of musical expression that you might find with acoustic instruments.Continue… Continue reading Striso MIDI controller looks to offer acoustic instrument playability
Joué Music Instruments has launched the next generation of its modular music-making interface on Kickstarter. Where the original was designed with pro musicians in mind, the Joué Play has been developed so anyone can make music.Continue ReadingCategory… Continue reading Joué Play opens up expressive music-making to everyone
Instrument maker Frank Piesik has built a three-string robotic music machine called Greg’s Harp where three different actuators excite the strings in different ways to produce sound controlled by a MIDI keyboard.Continue ReadingCategory: Music, Technol… Continue reading Robotic string exciter makes for polyphonic music-making fun
The name Ondophone is a mash-up of two instruments, the Marxophone, and the ondes martenot. From the Marxophone, [Wintergatan] borrows the spring-loaded hammers, which repeatedly strike a string once activated. The ondes martenot loans its Theremin-like sound and ability to lean back on western semi-tone notes. Mating such different instruments …read more
Join us on Wednesday, January 29 at noon Pacific for the Open-Source Medical Devices Hack Chat with Tarek Loubani!
In most of the developed world, when people go to see a doctor, they’re used to seeing the latest instruments and devices used. Most exam rooms have fancy blood pressure cuffs, …read more
As the open-source movement has brought its influence to more and more fields, we’ve seen an astonishing variety of things once only available at significant expense become accessible to anyone with access to the tools required to create them. One such arena is that of scientific instrumentation, and though we …read more
Continue reading Open-Source Analytical Balance Pits Gravity Against Electromagnetism
Many everyday objects make some noise as a side effect of their day job, so some of us hack would them into music instruments that can play a song or two. It’s fun, but it’s been done. YouTube channel [Device Orchestra] goes far beyond a device buzzing out a tune …read more
Continue reading When Toothbrushes, Typewriters, and Credit Card Machines Form A Band
[Dr. Suess] created memorable books with minimal words and bright artwork. He inspired children and adults alike, and one of them, [Len], grew up to create wind instruments for the Bellowphone channel on YouTube. Behind the whimsy of his creations is significant engineering, and this time, we get to see …read more
Continue reading Forming Fipples And Accompanying Accoutrements