Archive for the ‘diy’ Category
Friday, November 27th, 2009
It has been quite long since I first considered building my own guitar. It has also been long since I first wanted to get into woodworking/sculpting. I’ve finally taken it beyond the aspiration phase to actual execution. I will be documenting the process in a series of ...
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Friday, January 30th, 2009
make some use out of the useless scroll lock!
a tale about how I hacked a mint keyboard backlight when I was supposed to study.
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Sunday, March 23rd, 2008
... I'm surprised with what I'm able to do when I'm supposed to be doing homework.
Here's my latest project, it's less than 24 hours old =)
I've always wanted a looper effect, like the boss loopstation, mainly because the online demos were so neat. Being a bass player, I though it ...
Posted in diy, guitar effects, proof-of-concept | 5 Comments »
Monday, March 10th, 2008
I have just received a push-pull potentiometer that I had bought on ebay. It's a hybrid between a potentiometer and a DPDT switch. It looks like this:
I installed it in my Fender Highway-1 Jazz Bass, in place of the regular tone potentiometer, and wired the switch part of it to ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
I've wanted to build this kind of effect for a long time. This was actually the reason I got my 4066 ICs half a year ago, when I visited my electronic components shop.
A Tremolo is an effect unit that modulates the amplitude of the guitar signal, usually in a triangular ...
Posted in diy, guitar effects, proof-of-concept | 9 Comments »
Monday, February 25th, 2008
Well it's about time that I posted something.
Two weeks ago, a friend of mine asked me for help. He wanted to create something that will allow him to control all sorts of effects in Fruity Loops, like many available midi controller products. He was, however, looking for the cheapest solution, ...
Posted in coding, diy, midi, proof-of-concept | 1 Comment »
Thursday, December 6th, 2007
GarageGeeks is a notorious group of hardware hackers based in Holon, Israel. Among their projects is the famed Guitar Hero playing android. Besides creating cool projects, they also host various hands-on workshops every once in a while.
On November the 22nd, I attended my first workshop. From the Facebook invitation:
This Thursday ...
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Tuesday, May 22nd, 2007
This post is being written on the 21st but will be published only tomorrow, the 22nd, the reason will follow.
Today is the birthday of a very good friend of mine ( we'll call him Y ). He is celebrating together with 2 other friends (A and G) this evening. I've ...
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