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[Michael] loves this old organ of his, but recently he wondered if it would be possible to add MIDI out without altering its original functionality. With a bit of research and more than a bit of hard work he accomplished his goal. The nice thing about working on a quality piece of hardware like this is the resources you can find regarding how they work (which we bet is tailored for how to … [Read more...]
We've got to say it... these tubular bells sound awful! They don't really have a tight pitch center so they sound really out of tune to us. But we think that's the failing of the instrument itself and not the work which [Tolaemon] did to automate the instrument. There are three main parts to his project. The first, which is shown above, adds a hammer for each bell. The hammers are hinged, … [Read more...]
Regular reader and master hacker [Bill Porter] got married. Congratulations [Bill] and [Mara]! The two of them just couldn't leave their soldering irons at home. The actually swore their vows by soldering together a circuit during the ceremony (blinky wedding dress, el wire tuxedo, and all). [Kevin] sent in a link to [Red Fathom's] hacked Wacom tablet. It's the screen from a Wacom-enabled … [Read more...]
If you don't mind ending up with oddly shaped 3D printed parts you can get your printer to sing to you. The exhibit shown above is doing just that. The Lulzbot is being driven specifically to produce a certain frequency of sound with its stepper motors. The results of a few different songs are what's hanging on the wall to the right. You can hear it printing Bizet's Carmen in the clip after the … [Read more...]
Gutarist, hacker, and mustache enthusiast [David Neevel] brought together way too many pieces of hardware in order to use his electric guitar as a computer keyboard. So let's dig into the house of cards he built for the project. It starts off with the guitar which has been fitted with an additional pickup to interface with a Roland GR-33 synthesizer pedal. That outputs a MIDI signal, which many … [Read more...]
[Lee O'Donnell] is showing off his version of a MIDI organ pedal hack. We've been seeing a few of these lately. The organ pedals are a great stating point as they're easy to patch into electronically, and are designed to take a beating from your feet and come out the other side no worse for wear. The build goes beyond one of our favorite MIDI pedal conversions in both features and finish. An … [Read more...]
Drumming hackers take note, if you've got an extra bass drum pedal it's cheap and simple to use it as a MIDI controller. This rig was thrown together to supplement a DIG DRUM electric drum set. That piece of equipment has a pedal add-on that didn't come with it. Turns out all it does is feed a resistance value to the set. To get this up and running a frame was built from a metal base and … [Read more...]
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