www.youtube.com/watch Challengers! The judging deadline has now passed - thank you so much to everyone who took part! If you're not finished yet, I'd still love to be able to follow the progress on your amazing projects. My project, LaserSc...
Tim Berce’s Fret Friend makes it easier to learn to play the guitar by allowing players to mark the various chord locations. (via Fret Friend) Playing the guitar is easy, especially if your last name is Hendrix, Halen or Vaughan but for the res...
Oh yeah, it works! I hooked the suit up to PureData and after some tweaking it worked! I made some small tests just to try it out, and it's really a lot of fun, playing around with this! I am very eager to get to know the suit and tweak it so that it...
I coded the Teensy to receive all the inputs (I decided to go for 6 inputs for this initial prototype), and gave them different control numbers. In the beginning I didn't really get what these control numbers meant, but I figured it out qui...
Then it was the thing about hooking everything up! This was really more difficult than I had imagined, but it all worked out well eventually! I spent some time soldering and tinkering to get everything to connect properly, after I had made the...
Today at our local hackerspace I did some calibration of the stretch sensor prototype I had finished. I was assisted by some other people who hang around here, who helped me out a bit with ideas on how to adapt the code in the best possible way. &nbs...
There we go! I've finished up creating the base of the suit, onto which I will add stretch sensors and the electronics! It took some time to finish it up (a lot of stuff happened in my life as well these past few days), but now it's done!&nbs...
Firstly, I'd like to say that it has been great to take part in this challenge. Personally, it has been a great opportunity to return to making stuff after months of no hardware projects. Also, it has been very helpful to get myself with the Bela pla...
This entry shows how Kazumi can be used to play drum machine sounds. The responsiveness of the instrument, thanks to the ultra-low latency Bela platform, makes it perfect for percussive instruments. I wanted to try this with some classic drum ma...
As Music Tech Design challenge comes to a close , here is blog post which gives you an overview of the DIY Drum kit and a couple of versions that I have been able to make using BeagleBone Black , a couple of capacitive touch sensors based on the MPR1...
This post outlines the current MIDI compatibility, and shows how the new prototype being played for the first time. Unfortunately, lots of stuff has gone wrong these past few days and I have had to redo a lot of the electronics. One of the MPR12...
PlectralEFFECTS - Final Notes I have had a busy couple of weeks, and unfortunately the project has been on hold. I have been busy with getting our family home ready to go on the market. I did however complete the implementation ...
I have almost finished the build of Kazumi.All the pad cables are done and connected.I've made a little circuitboard to attach to the analog input sockets on the Bela cape, which contains the circuit for all 7 piezos.I have cut some side panels f...
When constructing the upper body of the suit, I got into a creative flow which gave me entirely new ideas on how to construct the suit. As I was tinkering with how to put the pieces together I just got a vision which really took the design to a new l...
Welcome to another installment in the Design Challenge Weekly Summary series here at Element14! We have officially entered the final week of the Open Source Music Challenge here at Element14, and its challengers have been smashing the record fo...
Yesterday I finished preparing the 7 touch pads and started putting together the cables that connect them to the MPR121 breakout boards. One of the mistakes I have made is ordering the wrong magnetic tape. The one I've received isn't sel...
This post is about the SLS parts that arrived last week and how I plan to use them within the prototype. This is the first time I have had something printed in this quality and I have to say it's absolutely amazing. The parts feel very robus...
I did some quick work with finishing up the Pure Data patch, although there might turn up some further modifications that need to be done to be completely done. As always things keep on evolving as you work with them! I worked with adding volum...
Hello again! Really getting my energy back after this cold now so I've been able to work a bit more recently! Feels good - especially since the deadline is rapidly approaching and I have quite a bit of work to do still! Today I began creatin...
This weeks blog post is fun version of the DIY Drum kit using the BeagleBone Black, and is something that you can make with friends, at your local maker-space. The STL files for the 3D printed parts are attached to the blog post below at it take abou...
Project Update I have had success with an objective of using the steel strings of my electric guitar to feed in MIDI to the DAW over USB. Furthermore, with class-compliant MIDI, it means it should work on Apple I do not actually own any Ap...
In order to undertake this project I had to completely take-apart the toy piano, unfortunately slightly damaging it in the process due to the way it was originally connected together. As all the electronics for the project are now finished, I spent t...
Yesterday I built the first touch pad, here's how it went: First of all, I bought a 600mm x 300mm sheet of 1mm clear acrylic, which is more than enough to fit all 7 pads. I learned that 1mm acrylic sheet is almost double as expensive as 3mm ...
Hey challengers! How are your projects going? With just over 1 full week left I expect some of you are nearing a point of completion now. I just wanted to give you a little preview of what Music Tech Fest Berlin will be like - don't forget ...
