BillaBoop was created by Amaury Hazan who is a PhD Student at the Music Technology Group and is specialized in Machine Learning and its applications in the Music Technology field. Video after the jump. “BillaBoop is a real-time audio driven drum controller which allows the user to control up to 3 drum instruments. The user can control any drum synth with the voice (beat box), or any object or musical
This Guitar Tuner and Preamp project built by Rob uses a PIC microcontroller and an old stereo to allow visual tuning of a guitar. LEDs indicate how well tuned each string is. “I recently had to make a guitar amplifier and thought it would be cool to include a PIC based guitar tuner. I had an AIWA 3-disc stereo lying around with a non-functioning CD player. The tuner and tape
Balancing One-Wheeled Scooter Link “It’s very similar to a snowboard to ride, requiring no user input other than the movement of your body mass. Leaning forwards and backwards controls the velocity and moving your weight from heal to toe controls the turn radius. It’s easy and very intuitive to ride. The main controller is a PIC16F876A running at 20mHz. Pitch angle feedback is provided by an ADXRS300 Rate Gyro and
These University of South Florida students built this Computer Controlled Intelligent Scarecrow to enter a Microsoft design contest, their entry won second place. Video after the jump. “Our idea for this project was to develop an “intelligent scarecrow” called the Erebus Scarecrow. The system is designed to protect ponds at a fish farm from bird predators that can cost farmers thousands of dollars in losses. The Erebus Scarecrow helps the
There are a few versions of this cool robot, check out WIFIBOT for lots of design details. Video and more pictures after the jump “The purpose of WIFIBOT is to develop and make low cost robotic systems for an increasing number of applications using off the shelf technologies like the WiFi, which is the common denominator of all our products. WIFIBOT was born to fulfill the need there was in
Click To Play Last week we introduced you to the High Altitude Balloon experiment. The project is getting closer to completion, watch the video to see the progress. “Make: is going to space.Have you ever wanted to go up into space? Well, you don’t have to try and win a golden ticket, be a millionaire, or an astronaut… you can send your own payload into space! In this Make:
Our friends at Natural Interaction have revamped their Web site and have a bunch of new videos showing off their cool interactive technology. You can also read more about the technology at SensitiveWall.com. I think it is just a matter of time before we see this interface being used everywhere. It looks very intuitive. “One of the characteristics of a successful natural interface is the reduction of cognitive load
