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MAKE Magazine A demo on how to create an 11-piece MIDI drum kit using Rock Band and Guitar Hero drum sets together. It includes velocity-sensitive triggers and a high-hat open/close pedal.Create a full MIDI Drumset with Guitar Hero and Rock Band Drums Read more | Permalink | Comments | (Read More)

19 hours ago

The Unofficial Apple Weblog Filed under: Steve Jobs, Apple HistoryAs Dave Caolo told TUAW readers a few days ago, Fortune named Apple CEO Steve Jobs "CEO of the Decade" for his phenomenal leadership at Apple and how he has remade four industries (music, movies, mobile telephones, and computing) in the past ten years.Part of the Fortune article was a c (Read More)

16 hours ago

Inside Higher Ed A Call for Copyright Rebellion November 6, 2009 DENVER -- The manner in which copyright law is being applied to academe in the digital age is destructive to the advancement of human knowledge and culture, and higher education is doing nothing about it.That is what La (Read More)

3 days ago

Submitted by Alexruthmann from Google Reader: The stories of three high school boys about their experiences in school-based choral music provide the framework for a discussion of the role music educators can play in retaining male singers. The ‘possible selves’ construct (Markus & Nurius, 1986) is explored alongside research-based implications about specific steps towa (Read More)

4 days ago

MAKE Magazine Designed for use with the Pocket Piano shield for Arduino, Marc Nostromo's Squealer synthesis engine- The engine implements a small monosynth with a few waveforms, a HP/BP/LP continuous resonant filter, decay and a few little own tricks that  generate a LOT of aliases, making a great dirty digital synth.Since the Pocket Pia (Read More)

Oct 24, 2009

Submitted by Alexruthmann from Google Reader: “By almost any standard, many if not most of the nation’s 1,450 schools, colleges, and departments of education are doing a mediocre job of preparing teachers for the realities of the 21st century classroom,” Duncan said in a major speech at Teachers College, Columbia University. “America’s university-based teacher prepar (Read More)

5 days ago

MAKE Magazine It's the '60s, and you don't have access to a semiconductor fab to make piles of cheap memory for you, so how could you store data on your computer?Well, MAKE subscriber Steve points us to one possible solution, courtesy of vintagecalcuators.com: delay line memories. Rather than having a bunch of individual units that stor (Read More)

5 days ago

Submitted by Alexruthmann from Google Reader: The AIRduino Guitar is a wearable virtual guitar that is "played" with two hands much like playing Air Guitar.The system consists of a "stick" that triggers sound, a glove that sets the tone and an Arduino of course.Using ultra sonic sensors to measure the distance between the hands, the distance of the string to glove chan (Read More)

5 days ago

TechCrunch Startup PBWorks, which was formally known as PBwiki, specializes in helping businesses, non-profits, and educational institutions collaborate via wikis. The startup has steadily added innovative, real-time features to its platform, most recently integrating Twitter-like microblogging. Today, PBworks is entering the stream b (Read More)

Oct 23, 2009

Submitted by Alexruthmann from Google Reader: Here's what looks like a great, culturally sensitive way to tear down old buildings. D-Build, a project started in Syracuse, NY, is aiming to document and catalog entire decommissioned buildings as they are taken apart.All well and good, but what does this have to do with makers, you ask? Well, the other half of their equ (Read More)

Oct 26, 2009

Submitted by Alexruthmann from Google Reader: Instructables user mrfixits just posted this su-wheet luminiferous aetheric Tesla-punk tranceive-o-mogrifier doo-dad build. He explains it rather better than I:The Spooky Tesla Spirit Radio is a crystal radio circuit in a jam-jar. It makes fun spooky sounds by responding to input from several types of electromagnetic sourc (Read More)

Oct 23, 2009

MAKE Magazine Some years ago, a conversation with my old friend Billy Baque turned to the subject of adapting board games for sightless play. When it came round to Go, Billy mentioned having read of an antique Korean board, hollow inside and strung with wires along the lines of the grid, the wires being tuned such that each intersection (Read More)

Oct 26, 2009

Hackszine.com Zibri did some investigative hacking with the Force Trainer (brainwave controlled toy) and posted a basic interface schematic using a MAX3233 to interface with his PC via serial. It turns out the EEG headset is sending out data as ASCII characters @ 57600 baud - should make for some quick and easy hacking! Time to add min (Read More)

Oct 29, 2009

Submitted by Alexruthmann from Google Reader: From photographer Kevin Van Aelst. [via Boing Boing] Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Photography | Digg this!. (Read More)

Oct 29, 2009

TechCrunch Now that the dust is settling on the newly launched Google Music (if you don’t yet have it in your normal Google search results, you can use it here) that integrates LaLa and iLike/MySpace streaming music, all I can think of is this: What were Facebook and Ticketmaster thinking when they passed up the opportunity to acquire (Read More)

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