Posted December 4, 2012 by Chris

“The sculpture has a radial form, arranged around a sound wave generator at the centre of a room surrounded by a set of wall-mounted loudspeakers. The generator is connected to the loudspeakers by a bundle of audio wires running vertically and then branching out to form a sort of tree that shows the pathways of the electrical current.”

Posted December 2, 2012 by Chris

“In this article, I want to take you through the process of creating your own hardware project. I hope it can serve as an example that working in hardware can be an approachable and a fun hobby for people that are already smart enough to know how to code.”

Posted November 30, 2012 by Chris

“My project is a standalone MIDI controller with 4 memory banks. It has a USB and a MIDI connection. I engineered this device to play/control Virtual Instruments, mixers and sound effects. If you are not familiar with MIDI technology, you just need to remember one thing, this device does not alter wave forms like a mixer, and it does not produce any sound like a synthesizer; instead it sends MIDI events which can be assigned to adjust certain settings, play notes or trigger samples within other hardware/software.”

Posted November 25, 2012 by Chris

“The piano box is a (somewhat polyphonic) paper toy synthesizer with 12 keys, each triggering a tone and an LED. The keys are a set of capacitive sensors, made of copper tape, controlled by an Arduino Mega running the CapSense and Tone libraries.”

Posted November 21, 2012 by Chris

“I present this new Arduino project: A full MP3 player based on Arduino.
As you can see in the photo, the idea was to build a standalone player, in the style of antique radios or ‘tapes’, in the age of Iphones ….”

Posted October 6, 2012 by Chris

“Why a working, wearable air guitar? Bottom line, it’s just that cool. Who doesn’t want a machine that will take their jamming and turn it into rock they can hear? With just a glove, a pick and a little practice you can rock the synthetic acoustic guitar like no one else in the world.”

Posted October 5, 2012 by Chris

“I decided to do this project for several reasons: first I like music, second I have a huge collection of MP3, and third I wanted to be able to play them anytime in my living room. I began the project with one major restriction, the printed circuit board of MP3 player MUST be single side in order to do it myself.”

Posted September 28, 2012 by Chris

“In the spring of 2011 my friends and I decided to bring one of our childhood memories to life. In the opening scene of Back To The Future, Marty stops by Doc Brown’s lab to use his 8 foot tall guitar amplifer. Naturally, the speaker blows Marty across the room when he strums his guitar… Inspired by this scene, my friends and I decided to build a giant speaker of our own for the 2011 UW Engineering Expo.”

Posted August 28, 2012 by Chris

“Imagine this: you have your headphones on. When you turn your hand to the right there are the dark and low sounds. Turn your hand to the left and you hear bright shining bells. The other hand lets you shift the sound left or right as you like or just make more space as you turn forward. You can slowly turn from one side to the other, from dark to bright, from closed to wide, and the sound in your head follows your motion.”

Posted August 7, 2012 by Chris

“This is a project that I made to take care of an ever increasing need to prototype vacuum tube (valve) circuits. As you can see from the photos, it really is a test “board”. I do a lot of work with tubes and love to design and improve circuits.”