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Circuit Cellar – Frequency Modulated DDS

The September 2018 issue (#338) of Circuit Cellar shows building a “Channel Element” to replace crystal oscillator modules which are no longer available at specific frequencies.

Check out Circuit Cellar and pick up a copy of issue #338 for full build details!

Hut’s Anti-Hug Hat

Rolf Hut made an awesome Anti-Hug Hat, or personal space protector, for Burning Man this year.

The Dutch scientist wanted to explore working with Teensys and APA102 LEDs – and wanted a way to try to avoid the typical American hug at Burning Man, so he […]

DIY MIDI foot controller

Rattus_Metallum made a cool DIY MIDI foot controller.

He needed something to control scripted chord progressions in Dreamfoot, an app for free-floating synth pad accompaniment and was inspired by the iRig BlueBoard, but wanted to dumb it down a bit.  He made use of a Teensy 3.2 microcontroller to interpret the switches and send MIDI data over USB. The code for the Teensy was posted by Liam Lacey at Ask.Aduio.

Burning Man Art – Squidartha

Alexander “Wolf” Griffen designed and built Squidartha, a beautiful interactive burn-bot for Burning Man.

In response to Burning Man Arts request for proposals for Burn-bots to be displayed in The Man Pavillion, Wolf came up with the oceanic themed Squidartha.  He was inspired by the […]

LED Matrix Top Hat

Matthew Varas made an impressive GIF Playing LED top hat.

The project was inspired by a robotics competition.  Matthew is a mentor for the team an wanted show how to have some fun with engineering.  The hat uses 4 flexible 16×16 RGB LED panels, a Teensy […]

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