Category: DIY / Maker

1010 BlackBox Battery Mod

How to put a rechargeable battery in your 1010 Music BlackBox.


June 4, 2021 0

Headphone Amp & Battery Pack

Hey, you got USB charger in my Headphone Amp! Together, they are delicious. Something has to power it, and it’s going to live with my phone anyhow, why not also charge. It’s oddly the same size as these battery parts I have leftover. It’s also 5V. It appeared meant to be, until I discovered a…
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August 4, 2020 0

Gameboy to Volca Sync Cable

Exclusively here, this is how to splice your GBC or DMG cable to a 1/8″ aux jack, (or MIDI) so Nanoloop can send sync pulses to Korg Volca sequencers, Pocket Operators, Modular Synths and more. It’s actually just like the Midi pinout on the Nanoloop website, with the top middle pin going to the tip.…
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May 30, 2020 0

Volca Bass Distortion Mod

How To Add an Overdrive Knob to the Korg Volca Bass


April 28, 2020 0

BBE Sonic Maximizer Stereo Link Modification

modified bbe sonicmaximizerstereo link #mod#🎚 so that one set of knobs controls left and right identically #🎛 made with high quality vintage #reclaimed#univac wire


April 22, 2020 0

Yamaha REX-50 Multi Effector

teardown tour 1987 yamaha REX50 multieffects unit (part 1) repair and upgrade Later i’ll show you it’s sound. It’s reverb is not unlike a modern pedal but it’s pitch shifter is wacky. It’s delayed and when you add feedback it sounds like ur casting a spell. You can even adjust that delay to get an…
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April 22, 2020 0

Mouse Wiggler

The computer thinks it’s a usb mouse. When activated, it jiggles the mouse cursor a random tiny distance and direction, every 50-60 seconds.


March 30, 2020 0

Easy Midi Translator

#midi translator box, for @dj_dad_shirt easy octave up action, or other transposing/channel filtering kinda stuff that may arise, programmable via usb. Swipe through the post below to see video of it in action, and pictures of the guts. View this post on Instagram #midi translator box, for @dj_dad_shirt easy octave up action, or other transposing/channel filtering kinda stuff…
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January 25, 2020 0
diy touch sensor force sense pressure pad midi controller arduino leonardo promicro

Force Sensor for Pressure Expression

Prototype sensor you could build yourself. Plans are to scale it up and template the cutting of the layers for a commercially viable poly-touch interface of some kind.But you can make this DIY version yourself, see how in our post. Code below. The pads are sensitive enough that we made a mouse mode. The left…
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December 16, 2019 0

Mini Midi Sensor

Optical distance sensor midi controller played by @angkerfoot in a conch shell with a tiny usb #arduino @sparkfun #promicro to control a filter/wah/muffle sorta thing live. no max, just straight up midi folks. it’s the same Sharp sensor from the game controller midi fella. People often compare this to a Theremin.


November 18, 2019 0