Posted November 3, 2011 by Syd

“This article will be the first in a series of software articles describing the process of organizing your music collection. I’ve decided to write the application in Python for a number of reasons: I’ve never used Python myself, Python has modules for reading and writing mp3 tags, and Python is easy to install and configure.”

Posted October 24, 2011 by Chris

“This circuit is a digital sound level meter with a LCD screen, capable of displaying 80 characters (4 rows with 20 characters on each). You can build this LCD display. It also provides more debugging information, such as the minimum and maximum analog-to-digital samples that were measured during each period.”

Posted October 8, 2011 by Chris

Don’t let the phantom power scare you away, this mic is powered by the music flowing into it. “The circuit is constructed on a Radio Shack Multipurpose PC Board (Cat # 276-150) which has been modified by snapping off about 1/2″ of its length to provide clearance for the two DIN sockets.”

Posted September 16, 2011 by Chris

Building a digital piano is actually not as difficult as you might think. This article explains how to build a mini digital piano that can play tones across a single octave. An AVR microcontroller does all the intelligent processing and tone output and some LEDs are used to provide input from the musician. The article has all the hardware, software and theory explained.

Posted August 21, 2011 by Chris

A project for you music lovers:“The wind harp was displayed at Maker Faire and Robogames during 2008. A fan was placed nearby to blow across the strings to make it play. Visitors to my display can change the wind patterns to the harp by blocking the air stream and make it play differently.”The article has a pdf of the hardware schematic and construction photos.

Posted August 1, 2011 by Chris

Here’s a creepy project that uses electrodes to ‘shock’ your hand muscles into place. The article describes in great detail how the device works as it is attached to a research study. The specific application they mention for this device is helping to teach beginners how to play instruments correctly.

Posted July 29, 2011 by Chris

In a demo of what the MSP430 can do, here’s an LED Coffee Table that groves with your music. The MSP430 is used as a controller and external software catches the FFT of your music telling the controller how everything should light up to flow with the music. If you like this project give it a Vote at TI’s website.

Posted July 7, 2011 by Chris

If you’re a music lover, this Pyro Electro project is for you. Today I show you how to build your own IR Theremin. This style of theremin uses an infrared proximity sensor, a headphone speaker and a PIC micro to create an off-the-shelf style of instrument. The article includes demo vids of me playing simple songs on the theremin.

Posted June 18, 2011 by Chris

Today’s Project: Build a simple instrument that measures the quaility of AC voltage with PIC project board. The article explains the background details on the what, how and why with many pictures to illustrate explanations Source code is included for download.

Posted June 14, 2011 by Chris

All DJ’s need to be surrounded by the essence that is ‘cool’ and so an awesome lighting setup is a must. This article shows Das Hutwerk’s RGB lighting system with some demo vids of people grooving to his tunes and dj lighting. The article provides a description of the setup and how it works. A simple setup, but what more does a DJ need?