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instrument-a-day 8: walnut rattle

I don’t know why I kept all those walnut shells. Finally, here’s a
use for them.

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instrument-a-day 7: second try horn

Since my first horn was a failure, I tried again, this time in
acrylic, with a narrower tube and larger holes. But it still doesn’t
work as anything but a kazoo. Third try soon!

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instrument-a-day 6: wave scraper

Can you take an audio waveform, laser-cut it into a piece of acrylic,
and then play it back by scraping the waveform?

(Spoiler: NO.)

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instrument-a-day 5: bass horn

“bass” because it makes a low note and because it’s made of basswood.
The reed is cut from the plastic lid of a takeout soup container. The
thing only makes one note – I put in some random finger holes but they
make no difference! I suspect the horn is way too wide for its
length– I’ll try to make a skinnier one soon.


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instrument-a-day 4: remote interference

picking up noise from the guts of remote controls.

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audio fun with coils at nyc resistor feb 13

My Fun with Coils workshop at NYC Resistor is coming up – Saturday Feb. 13th from 4-6pm. Mess around with coils to make custom instrument pickups, junkbox loudspeakers, secret transmitters, and more! You can sign up on eventbrite.

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instrument-a-day 3: monomarx



I want a marxophone (video) but they go for hundreds of dollars on ebay.
This is a proof-of-concept test for making my own marxophone…
someday…

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instrument-a-day 2: glaciophone

I pulled up some chunks of ice from a frozen puddle and bonked them
with another bit of ice.

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instrument-a-day 1: scratchlight

A warm-up instrument to start the month, and preparation for my
upcoming fun with coils workshop.  I assembled a simple magnetic field
amplifier kit and used it to listen to the motor of a wind-up
flashlight.

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16 years of online photography

I want to say that I’ve been photoblogging now for sixteen years – but I haven’t posted photos here very much lately, thanks to the lure of flickr. Maybe I should do something about that.

January 13, 1994:
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Back then, before affordable digital cameras, I used an old 8mm camcorder and a video digitizer to get pictures into the computer.

(Hey, wait, does this count? From 1993? I forgot about the Kinderegg page. That web page is old enough to get a driver’s license!)

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