Collaborate Disseminate
There’s a scene in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory where a little flap in the wall flips down to reveal a small organ embedded there. Gene Wilder plays a …read more Continue reading 2024 Home Sweet Home Automation: A Piano-Controlled Smart Home
Pianos can become the heart of a home, and some become intergenerational heirlooms loaded with memories. Letting them go once they’re unplayable can be very hard, but an Australian sculptor has found a way to resurrect them, to jaw-dropping effect.Cont… Continue reading Beloved family pianos are reborn as stunning phoenix sculptures
A couple of decades ago one of *the* smartphone accessories to have was a Bluetooth keyboard which projected the keymap onto a table surface where letters could be typed in …read more Continue reading This Piano Does Not Exist
Pianos use little hammers striking taut strings to make tones. The Mellotron used lots of individual tape mechanisms. Meanwhile, the Trans-Harmonium from [Emily Francisco] uses an altogether more curious method …read more Continue reading The Trans-Harmonium is a Strange Kind of Radio-Musical Instrument
The piano has been around for a long time now. Not long after its invention, humans started contemplating how they could avoid playing it by getting a machine to do …read more Continue reading Robot Pianist Runs on Arduino Nano
The latest project from music education company Loog Guitars isn’t a three-stringed Gibson classic to go with its pint-sized Fender Strat or Tele electrics, but a 37-key portable piano for kids of all ages.Continue ReadingCategory: Music, TechnologyTag… Continue reading Loog kickstarts music learning with wood-enclosed portable Piano
Researchers at Google have posed themselves an interesting problem to solve: mastering the piano. However, they’re not trying to teach themselves, but a pair of simulated anthropomorphic robotic hands instead. …read more Continue reading RoboPianist is a Simulation For Advancing Robotic Control
As we age, our brains naturally atrophy, and we experience cognitive decline. New research suggests that listening to music or playing a musical instrument may improve cognitive functioning in healthy older people.Continue ReadingCategory: Health &… Continue reading Tickling the ivories may improve age-related cognitive decline
Grand pianos are beautiful instruments, but take up altogether too much space. Upright pianos are smaller, but still fairly hefty. When it comes to the PiezoPiano, though, we suspect nobody …read more Continue reading Tiny PCB PiezoPiano Plays Just One Octave
Mozart’s Sonata for Two Pianos in D Major has been credited with having many positive effects, including alleviating epilepsy symptoms. But a new meta-analysis out of Vienna has concluded that there is no scientific evidence linking Mozart’s piece of m… Continue reading The myth of Mozart: Study shows music has no effect on epilepsy symptoms