Dayne Barton of Tokyo Tek put together this great summary video of Make: Tokyo Meeting 06, where he asks both Mitch Altman and myself about our favorite projects.
Other cool Make Tokyo stuff:
Everyone likes Spoon Organ!
Spoon Organ is an instrument that I created to show at the Make Tokyo Meeting 06 this past weekend. The user can play musical tunes simply by touching a row of spoons sitting on a table, with a fork added in for good measure. A microcontroller is used to detect changes in capacitance caused by a finger pressing against the metal, which are then sent to a computer using the MIDI protocol.
The project was conceived of and created while on Hackers on a Plane 4, using spare parts from the Make It Last Build Series, cables and connectors purchased in Akihabara (thanks, Akiba!), and soldering work completed at Tokyo Hackerspace. Here is a short video of it running:
Read on for a schematic and source code.
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Defend the galaxy from Nick Normal in this epic space battle! Hastily made using this and this. Available for Linux, OS X, and Windows, or grab the source.
On Wednesday, I took a big step into the world of kit making, when I designed and sold my first product! This one is called the ‘D.I.Y. Cow Kit’, and was purchased by Drew Fustini of PS1. Thanks, Drew!
Unfortunately, this kit was sold as an edition of 1, so I am already out of stock. However, you can still purchase a poster, or contact me if you would like a special kit commissioned just for you!
Thanks also to the fine folks at CCCKC, who provided the papercraft cow substrate that I ‘hacked’ to design my kit.
See here and here if this doesn’t make any sense.
Source file here
Fund my travels! Purchase an authentic copy of this poster for only $15, while supplies last! Includes shipping to North America!:
At the workshop at Blooming Labs in Bloomington, IN, we were short a couple of soldering stands. Mitch showed us this nice trick for replacement stands using a standard coat hanger and some wire cutters, so I wrote up some quick directions so that others would be able to make them as well. Also, I made one into a fish:
