Velosynth!
This project combines two things I love – synths and bikes. Awesome idea!
More info at velosynth.com
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This project combines two things I love – synths and bikes. Awesome idea!
More info at velosynth.com
A quick (45 second) BeatBearing demonstration I put together for use in my viva presentation.
Liking the look of this turntable sequencer by Daniel Skoglund. There’s some more of his music on his myspace page (“kretsar” has a nice pops’n’clicks ambient vibe).
[via: Synthtopia]
An interesting update of the I/O bulb & Luminous Room concept.
[via: Make]
This is a great project. Sticking magnets on to a baked-ban can allows you to program beats and arpeggios. I was thinking of making a rotary version of the BeatBearing at one point. Glad to see that something similar has been made! Blurb from youtube video below:
One empty baked bean tin, some lego and a stack of little magnets… stick magnets on the tin and slide them about to ‘program’ the sequencer, then grab hold of the ‘transport control’ and crank away…. The breadboard contains 5 hall-effect switches and a PIC16F688 to generate MIDI note on/off information. This is piped to Reason in the first half of the clip and to a Dave Smith Mopho synth in the second half.
I reckon with a baked bean tin about 16ft in diameter and about 25,000 magnets you could dump your sequencer software.. and you’d be getting some good aerobic exercise to boot :o)
[via:Synthtopia]
Nice large-scale tangible sequencer called the OrbiTone.
[via: CreativeApplications]
Interesting use of ultrasound to add a form of haptic feedback to a holographic display. The raindrop demo looks interesting, shame there doesn’t seem to be any sound!
Spotted on: TAT – Mobile User Interface Blog: Touchable Holography
Robin Price, a colleague in the SARC PhD lab (and co-conspirator in making acid-house & improv) has started a new blog documenting his work. Currently the blog shows his work on making an Arduino-controlled DAC, allowing you to send smooth (non-PWM) voltages into your 303, x0x-box, or other voltage controlled synth. The video demo is shown above, and the blog can be found here:
http://registeringdomainnamesismorefunthandoingrealwork.com/blogs/
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This shows the interactive demo of the BeatBearing at NordiCHI’08. The paper that accompanied the demo can be downloaded from:
http://www.sarc.qub.ac.uk/~pbennett/publications.htm
Thanks to everyone who played the BeatBearing in the video!