Author: wozlaser

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

midi plugstrip

#midi controlled plugstrip for haunted lamps synced to the beat.


November 9, 2019 0

Game controller for music

🎛 #diy live #midi interface stuffed with an #arduino #promicro 🎚 the oled screen tattles what i have it doing to #ableton 🔊 the left lever is turning up a drum layer made by #sampling the #netflix #sound 🎧 a toy helicopter that squirted water donated the controller 🎮 a Sharp optical distance sensor on…
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October 24, 2019 0

c h e a t e r – b o x

#diy cheater box shows the #midi notes going on, #keyboard layout and in #guitartab) follow 4 more art music gizmos, share 2 support sorcery #🤖 (#lofibeats and #futurebass goes in, gets split, and one output gets remapped the peculiar way the #volcasample needs. That remap job was all it did at first, with just an #arduino and a #midishield but then a deal on an LCD came by and it was time…
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October 11, 2019 0

LED Blinky Guitar

LEDs in a ‘Squire II’ #electricguitar triggered by a magnetometer that detects movement like a compass. #🎸 Originally used a circuit my dad made me to play with in 89 at 6yo. By high school in the late 90s i bought the first white and blue LEDs to appear at RadioShack and drilled some holes. The wire is from an…
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October 1, 2019 0

Digitech Rebuild

major surgery on a @digitechfx Vocal 300 courtesy Justin Anderson #🎛 love the #2001 back to the future LED display. xlr jacks were dead, but they just needed to have the solder re-melted (whew i feared one of the little opamp chips on the board with them died) had to replace most of the pots because the numbers super-jiggled, AND the…
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July 28, 2019 0

1987 Aphex Aural Exciter Reversible Mod

#1987#Aphex#AuralExciter Type C #teardown and reversible mod to add aux jacks. I used the same holes that held the transformer and moved it away with doubletape, so this can go back to stock, don’t sweat it.#🎛 This is basically a warm tuned overdrive, like the Saturator in Ableton.#🎚 The original could only be rented at great price, but this later…
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June 29, 2019 0

Mackie Poweramp Fix

#mackie m1400i #poweramp repaired for a diversely downhome dude @davidreedwatson one of the coolest folks i met at @radiovegasrocks#🎛#🎚 this fella fortunately had a couple parts in the temp protection circuit that commonly fail which people reported on several message boards, so i had a lucky time.


June 25, 2019 0

adding ins n’ outs

unbalanced ins n outs added to my @tcelectronic m one – now its not just a magic cave in a box, its also a di! thanks @ozziepresents for today’s subject device


June 18, 2019 0