[Churippu]

[shrugtheironteacup]

loljapan(?)


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[shnozlak]

I circuit bent a children's keyboard... That count?

added 4 buttons 2 switches a knob and 2 body contacts to control:
an extreme pitch bend (body contacts)
a fuzz effect
a noise effect
a mute that turns the snare sound into a flat kick
a pitch down one step, button that turns the vibrato into a trill
A knob that can carefully control either pitch up or pitch down or both at once which sounds, interesting...

...needs a 1/4 inch line level output...

I'm working on modifying/bending a Casiotone MT-68 (from 1989)

SO FAR I have:
a slight pitch bend up and down
a few diffrent sounding clipping effects that make for good crunch
a few different 'aliasing' sort of effects that make it sort of C64 sounding
A random effect bend that is awesome, sometimes
Ive bypassed the rather crude capacitor filters for a harder clearer tone
a bend that makes tapped keys sustain forever
mutes for the snare and other drum sounds
bend that turns the cymbal crash into a much harder sound
a sound that turns the ride cymbal into a hard dry snare-esq sound
A bend that can make the toms sound more like bongos

Working on: (Things I'm pretty sure I can do or have read about)
Volt drop for the main board
separate outputs for the drum machine, arpeggiator and the keyboard
bass drum decay control
(arcade)buttons to cue all the drum sounds
note up/down one step at the press of a button (chord trills?)
Tempo (far)exceeding the normal maximum via knob
temporary freezes and crashes
and what ever else I can find...

I also built an arcade controller
and enclosures for a pair of 12 inch speakers
and I started an N64 cart bending project that dead ended due to phantom electrical issues with the fucking gameshark I was modifying. So much free time wasted!
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[L]

...the rest of them aren't as good.

[Baron Patsy]

[Gin]

I CAN'T MAKE FOR I AM BLIND

[haircute]

[Jeff Garneau]

[oneEIGHTkevin]

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[L]

[Focus]

I know, I know, polaroid picture.







There are more, but I don't want to blow my load or anything of the sort.
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[shnozlak]

[luvcraft]

Since it's been two years since I wrote it and I've long since lost interest in trying to get it published, I've released the young-adult novel I wrote for nanowrimo 2004 (and revised over the next year), Lisa Star and the Solstice Academy, for free under creative commons. You may notice a few minor similarities to another young-adult novel that shall go unnamed, which is pretty much what happens when you write your first novel in 24 days.
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[secondpillow]

[Churippu]

Those are too cute!

[GalaxyHead]

[luvcraft]

[alice]

spent spring break remodelling garage sorta. AFter finishing the two racks, I realized that I just had to take that pink bristel board I had lying around and cut teeth out of it and then I realized I just had to cut out SQUARE foam eyes.



Tool rack isn't quite done.

[shrugtheironteacup]

That is marvelous.

Sometimes I think I should have tool storage that isn't "pile, sometimes in drawers".

Maybe if I had a place to keep them that wasn't a lean-to.
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[shrugtheironteacup]

Never forget. (?)


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[alice]

how do you guys go about making knives anyways? Namely the blade.

[shrugtheironteacup]

[option]

L, I thought this one was pretty clever.


Sums up the biggest diffrence between Videogames and reality quite well I think.

[shrugtheironteacup]

Blowing my load.


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[eretsua]

[luvcraft]

[eretsua]

[meauxdal]

[The Blueberry Hill]

Lads, I have a myspace thing :(

http://www.myspace.com/ryliejamesthomas

All I have to put on there are some things I recorded last year with an instrument I made called a couchbell.

Why does it say I have no friends? :(
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[chompers po pable]

blueberry, i requested your friendship. i would be interested in pictures of this couchbell thing, if that's possible.

[The Blueberry Hill]

And now I have 1 "friends".

So I'm sure if better is the thing I am feeling.

I don't have any photoes of it, and it's back in Australia, but somewhere here I have a drawing of it.

It's the only instrument I got around to finishing, probably because it's just a couch and three upside downed metal tables, and a microphone (for hitting).
I wanted to make something Indonisian.
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[chompers po pable]

pics >:|

[The Blueberry Hill]

FINE.

Here's how I remember it.


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[diplo]

warning: i have practically no musical training. but a friend made me aware of my laptop's default music program.
so i've been messing around on it for a few months now.
figure i'd put my most recent thing up here.

[L]

[The Blueberry Hill]

Nope. But I do have a dog named Charlie. He's not made of bubblegum though :(
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[chompers po pable]

i recorded this today

[luvcraft]

while we're posting about bands, here's the band I was in 11 years ago:

http://www.studiohunty.com/disband/mp3/

I have a sneaking suspicion I already posted about this, but I couldn't find it via the forum search.

[!=]

Just out, some compilation of tracks I participated in. I could tell you clues about who I am like telling you my track was made in an once-grand (yet still wearing the grand adjective in its name) hotel in milano, except that would not be a clue, rather something to put you off on the wrong track:

http://www.moonove.com/ep.php

Actually, my track is the one with the name of a powerpc opcode.

The rest is well worth getting the compilation for.

Here's what I wrote somewhere else about it:

(( Some tracks were made in the mountains, some in decrepit once-grand hotels in Italy. Some were made on tincans, some on expensive monitors. Some with acoustic instruments and some with just enough 0-and-1s to make actual sounds. Some may feature traces of vocals. Some actually feature vocals! And beats, and funk and whichever it is we find beautiful. ))

[wackodave]

Mousetrap

I did this for university. It was my first animation so be kind. Also the whole bit at the start with the mouse and smoke trail was done real quick to meet the assignment requirements.

[Adilegian]

First SB post in a few weeks.

While moving between states, I was able to finally get a lot of my old stuff out of storage, which brought a bunch of the things I'd built/made/altered to light over the past decade. Here they are!

A Writer's Drafting Table

I came across a drafting table several years ago at a garage sale, and I immediately saw how it could be adapted to my composition needs. The physical dimensions of pages in a notebook can become problematic when re-drafting a poem, especially when I want to refer to an idea in the poem's first draft when I'm working on its fourteenth draft.

To solve that problem, I altered the desk so it works (and looks) like this:


First detail: I wanted to use large pieces of posterboard that I could write all the way across, and still have the last ten or twenty drafts of a shorter poem on-hand for reference. I also wanted to be able to keep the drafting table stocked with at least five pieces of posterboard so I wouldn't need to distract myself too much when changing out the sheets.

To this end, I drilled four holes at the right measured spots, put bolts through the backside of the board, and used a hacksaw to cut the bolts to length. Then, I cut four 1"-x-1" pieces of wood out of some thin slats I had in my junk closet. I sanded down the edges so they were kind of circular, then drilled holes through the center that would house the nuts that belonged to the previously-installed bolts.

I superglued the nuts into place inside the wooden rings so I could comfortably remove them when I needed to change sheets. This let me install up to five (and sometimes six) pieces of posterboard at once without worrying about them sliding around or popping off the desk.




To make sure I had enough pens on hand, I drilled five holes in the upper right corner of the desk. I went to the hardware store with my preferred brand of pen in hand, and I tested to see what size washer would slide up the pen's shaft and stop at the cap. I bought a bag of those washers and glued them on top of the drilled holes.




Then I put two linoleum nails into the upper left side of the table to hold a ruler and a compass, should I want them for whatever reason. The trails of wax in the picture are the remnants of some candles I used to stick onto the surface.



So that's that!

A Game for Gentlemen and Boys

I made this chessboard back when I was in middle school, and it has served me well over the past fifteen years.



Feed Me

This was part of my Halloween costume back in 1999. I was going as a post-apocalyptic survivalist, and this was part of my character's IV feeding system.



I bought a couple of baby bottles—making sure that they were asymmetrical—and I think I used glue or solder to hold them together. I filled one with pipe tobacco (which you can still see) and I filled the other with a mixture of milk and Windex. I bought a couple of old brass cabinet knobs from an antique store, attached wires to their undersides, and affixed them to the tops of the bottles. Then, I ran wires from the tops of the knobs to little swatches of fake skin, so it looked like the thing was a nursing IV.

Grammar Bot

And I made this in High School for an English project.



We were assigned to make a board game to teach different aspects of English grammar, and I got stuck with punctuation. The other kids in my group were kind of dumb, and I really needed to redeem my grade so I could graduate (because I was a very bad high school student), so I took the initiative on the project.

Basically, when you worked your way across the board, you had to answer questions about punctuation. This machine was part of the answering process.

All of those light switches ran to the single bulb (with a spare bulb in the plastic film canister on top). Each switch represented one of the possible answers.



The proctor knew the answer, and he had a set of Program Cards marked with the corresponding punctuation.



The back of the machine had a slit where the proctor inserted the Program Cards.







The machine was powered with a nine-volt battery that has since corroded and been thrown away. It was supposed to go in the little appendage sticking off the right side of the device. The Program Cards cut off all of the circuits to the switches except the one that corresponded with the right answer. If the player flipped the right switch, the light would go on. If not, it wouldn't.

It got a pretty good response, and actually did save my ass from getting a D/F in English my senior year.

I've got a bunch more of things like this, but I'm running low on time. Maybe I can post more later!
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