There’s a million and one ways to play around with MIDI and an Arduino. It’s trivial to have a ‘duino spit out a scale to a MIDI keyboard, or even respond to SysEx messages to change a lighting or ...

Making music can be an expensive hobby, particularly if you don’t set limits on the equipment you’re willing to shell out for. That’s the fate musician Alex Coover, aka Glacial Geyser, came close to ...

Both small children and cats have a certain tendency to make loud noises at inopportune times, but what if there were a way to combine these auditory effects? This seems to have been the reasoning ...

Adam Podstawczynski has created an innovative Arduino-powered project that emulates a Commodore 64 keyboard on a modern PC. This project allows keystrokes to be translated into character inputs on a ...

Engineering student Federico Terzi has created a new input device aptly named the Gesture Keyboard which, as the name suggests, converts gestures into keystrokes thanks to a little Arduino programming ...

Need an ultra-slim MIDI controller keyboard for laying down quick tracks while you’re on the go? Or perhaps you’re looking for a small, inexpensive keyboard to complement your full-size home studio ...

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He's transformed an old bike into a rolling synth, smashed up a microwave to make a sparky drum, and more recently turned a games console into a music machine. Now Sam Battle of Look Mum No Computer ...

MIDI is, in a word, a godsend. This unassuming data-transfer standard is the magic sauce that enables drastically different ...

Sure, Red Bull may have gotten a lot of attention by sponsoring Felix Baumgartner's space dive, but it's not the only beverage-maker that has made some great accomplishments possible. The Prague-based ...