Just imagine what type of sound control you would have from your guitar if you added gesture recognition that could adjust effects in real time. This Kinect Guitar Neck Tracking project by Patrick Sebastien does just that! Using the items below allow the guitar to be recognized and tracked, the gesture of the guitar is then monitored, finally Pure Data is used to adjust the sound of the guitar.
This Open Source DIY Cellphone might not be the latest and greatest Samsung phone but it is something that you can build yourself. It is Arduino based and all of the details can be found here. Via: Electronics Lab and Arduino Blog “The DIY Cellphone is a working (albeit basic) cellphone that you can make yourself. It can make and receive phone calls and text messages, store names and
FozzTexx shows how he built a system that allows a Raspberry Pi to act as a Commodore 64 Disk Drive. His C-64 is tricked out with an Ethernet card so he shows us how he can pull a directory listing from the Raspberry Pi drive and loads an internet browser. It works but isn’t really usable for anything modern. The drive access is very slow due to the speed
 This is a neat project. The DIY Analog VU Meter and Clock can move to the music when in VU mode and also act as an analog clock to let you keep track of time. “I made an old style analog VU meter and Clock using 2 analog panel meters, an Arduino, a real time clock, and other simple components. How it works: The unit plugs into a standard
Josh Kiepert built this Raspberry Pi Cluster while at the Electrical and Computer Engineering department at Boise State. He didn’t want to rely on the stability of the Beowulf cluster at the university while working on his doctoral research so he decided to build his own using 33 Raspberry Pi computers. He has stacked them wired them with a custom power interface so that he can keep the power lines
  The prize this week is an Arduino Mini Clone. This contest will run for one week (August 10 – 16, 2013). Ending time is based on central standard time. To enter, identify the item above and what it can be used for. Please note the image above is a side view of the thing. Please do not give the answer in the comments. Send an email to
If you have a project that needs to talk have a look at the Network Speech Server by Viktor Criterion from Super Fun Adventure Quest Time. This design uses a Wifi module that listens for messages on a port. When a message comes in it is passed to the text to speech module so it can be spoken. This would make a great addition to an online business
