Beat Boxxx and Speak to Me/Breathe

Caleb Kraft — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 18:12:27 +0000

[Steve] is in the MFA Design and Technology program at parsons, and as part of his studies, has built a couple really interesting projects. First, the Beat boxxx, as seen in the video above, is an 80′s retro looking portable beat looper. You create and loop your beats at the time of playing using simple hand gestures. The look is great, for those who enjoy cardboard and magic marker, though we think some tonal variation and possibly a wider pitch variation would really make this fun.

His second project is Speak to Me/Breathe. This project was meant to be a commentary on security in our daily information. He is visually displaying the braille symbols to spell out his emails. If any person were to spend the effort, they could decipher his emails. The finish on this project is quite nice, you can see a video of the display after the break.

Posted in arduino hacks, digital audio hacks, home entertainment hacks

ThingamaKIT video

Eliot — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 23:50:00 +0000

Bleep Labs has just published a demo video of their new ThingamaKIT that we covered the other day.

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Beat Boxxx and Speak to Me/Breathe

ThingamaKIT video