Posts under Gear Category
That awesome Superman-coloured device pictured above is the invention of mad-genius tinkerer Mike Walters. He sent me the link to his creation and it actually took me a while to figure out what was going on.
Peter Cocteau over at nxtasy.org has posted the software he created for a sample-based drum machine hacked into a Lego Mindstorm NXT unit. Using the NXT brain and some rotary dials, you can program some pretty nice sounding drums. I’m pretty impressed by the sound quality from such a supposedly lo-fi device.
With Ikea’s wide variety of products and comparatively affordable prices, it’s no wonder that their products are ripe for the “hacking”. Ikea Hacker has a tutorial for making your own speaker stand out of a table leg, and a shelf.
Numark has announced the impending arrival of the MixTrack DJ MIDI controller. Having reviewed the Vestax Spin and using it quite a bit, I can’t help but see the similarities between them. Like the Spin, the MixTrack has a touch sensitive platter and like the Spin’s twin brother the Typhoon, the MixTrack ships with Traktor LE.
Have you ever walked into a music store to buy guitar or microphone cables and been taken aback by the pricing on cables? What makes them so expensive? I think it’s probably the time and care needed to properly solder connections more than the materials.
