Tag Archive 'hacking'

My First Circuit Bending

Last week-end I have bought five noise-making plastic toys at a yard sale in Paris; I then ordered knobs and switches from ebay and from a local electronic store. What for? For the purpose of circuit bending of course! First failure Out of the four toys, one was already non working when trying with new [...]

Here is an example of how to use the same knobs (e-g. 6 knobs easy to connect to the 6 Arduino analog inputs) several times to adjust several parameters spread over several « pages ». This enables to « multiplex » the same knobs many times, in a safely fashion thanks to the protection mecanism:  after changing the active [...]

Rhythmic clock machine

Here are two videos, pictures and explanations about my experiments to generate rhythmic music using laser beams in a clock fashion.

Just like many arts, music arousal is considered to follow the well-known Wundt curve that defines the balance between attractiveness and boredom. Too much repetition is boring, not enough repetition is confusing and considered just noise. What for? Let us assert that idea to music, to generate rhythms. A very simple application of the Wundt [...]