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How To Convert A 100 Volt Yamaha CS-10 Synthesizer To 120 Volts
Today I received my new (old) Yamaha CS-10 synthesizer from Japan. I was surprised to find that the plug was a regular two pronged plug that would fit into a regular North American socket. I had assumed that I would … Continue reading
Posted in hack, hardware, make, Synth
Tagged 100V to 120V, analog synthesizer, Yamaha CS-10
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Automatic Dubstep & Electro: The Wub Machine
Yesterday Peter Kirn reported on the Montreal Music Hack Day on Create Digital Music and shared a link to Peter Sobot’s project, The Wub Machine. The Wub Machine takes any piece of audio as input and spits out either a … Continue reading
Posted in code, hack, make, online, Python, script, sound, web
Tagged automatic dub, dubstep, electro, montreal music hack day, music hack, wub machine
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PachubeMon App Open Sourced
PachubeMon is a free iPhone app available on the App Store that I built a couple of years ago. It allows you to view real time sensor data shared by Pachube users and gathered from objects, devices, buildings and environments … Continue reading
Posted in app, code, hack, iOS, iPhone, make, online, pachube, prototyping, ubiComp
Tagged Internet Of Things, OpenSource, pachube, PachubeMon
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Arduino Based MIDI Ribbon Controller Project
Giuseppe Di Cillo has just shared his design and code for an Arduino based MIDI ribbon controller. Below is a video of it in action with it built into a custom case and controlling the Grobian Reaktor ensemble through Ableton … Continue reading
Posted in arduino, controller, hack, hardware, instrument, make, MIDI, prototyping
Tagged Arduino, Arduino MIDI Project, DIY, MIDI, MIDI Ribbon Controller, Swarmatron
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Xcode Script For Creating Properties From Instance Variables For UIViewController
One of my favourite blogs on the net is Matt Gallagher’s Cocoa with Love. Today I was investigating ways to speed up my workflow in Xcode and I found a great mixed Perl and AppleScript script already written by Matt a … Continue reading
Posted in code, hack, iPhone, Objective-C, OSX, script, XCode
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Pachube: The Internet Of Things
I just found out about Pachube over on the Make: Blog and am feeling really inspired. Pachube is just awesome! It is a service created by HAQUE design + research that “enables you to connect, tag and share real time … Continue reading
Improved Arrow Key Key-bindings For OSX Terminal
When using Terminal it is sometimes useful to have your Page-Up, Page-Down, Home and End keys (the four arrow keys on Mac keyboards) function as you would expect. This is especially useful when using more or less to view text … Continue reading
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Remove Genre From List View In iTunes 8.0
I personally don’t use genre to browse my music collection. I find it too difficult to pin a label on a lot of music these days; I would just end up stringing adjectives. iTunes 8.0 defaults to showing genre in … Continue reading
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Oxygen 49 FWD/REV Transport Buttons In Live
If you have ever tried to use the Forward or Reverse transport buttons on an M-Audio Oxygen MIDI controller in Ableton Live, you will have had the unpleasant experience of losing control of the play-head. When this happens, the play-head … Continue reading
Posted in ableton, hack, MIDI
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Solar Powered Beam Bots
My 2 year old daughter has recently become interested in a couple of solar powered robots that I built a few years ago so I thought I would share them here. Both bots were built from instructions in Make Magazine vol. 06. The … Continue reading
Posted in bots, hack, make, solar
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