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.
Movement Controlled Expression Pedal Build Guide
AKA “Dance-to-Wah Adaptor” A dawless way to add distance sensors to your musical effects situation.
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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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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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.
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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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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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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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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