Lady Ada, crazy-lady-hacker I met at Maker Faire 2007, has made a new fun kit that consists of a pencil that will “sing” when you draw stuff.

Our friends at Adafruit have released a fun new kit called the “Drawdio” — adapted from the original Drawdio design by Jay Silver – which lets you create a pencil that makes noisy almost-music via the variations in the resistance of graphite pencil lead. It’s $20 plus shipping. I just ordered one so I can recreate my middle school notebook sketches to literally hear the music of the anime spheres.

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You have to agree that 2 7-feet tall Tesla Coils playing Mario Brothers is an awesome music.

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Wow, this is awesome music!

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Here’s a really cool ball that can bounce on water.  What’s up with the music?  They really need to change the music if they want to increase sales.

The Waboba ball, which is about the size of a golf ball, has taken off around the world after videos were posted on YouTube.

Made of a combination of plastics with a lycra coating, it is described as having the consistency of a breast implant.

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For the ultimate DJing experience, you might want to check out DJ Booth Homelander, which consists of stylish design combined with solid music.

Specs:

-highgloss (custom colour) finish.
-perfect ( custom) equipment fitt.
-3 front LED lights (with on/off switch)
-2 colour powerleds, both remote controlled ( on/ off/ colour changing program)
-integrated air cooling fan.
-integrated power supply ( on/off switched)
-integrated sound cabeling.
-2 xlr / 4 cinch connectors. 1 power ‘euro’connector.
- ( custom size ) monitor stands.

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While the skull looks pretty normal from a far distance, you will notice that a bunch of old cassette tapes have been used for constructing the skull if you look very carefully.

This is a cool way to recycle your old cassette tapes and make a scary plastic sculpture for your home.

Just make sure to transfer all your music digitally using  a cassette-to-digital converter(via OhGizmo) before trying this yourself.

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Here’s a funky robot that dances to the music from Japan.  You can even hook up your iPod to enjoy your music on the robot.

It’s a robot for pure recreation, I am not sure how it’d sell in the U.S. market yet.

The two-wheeled, dancing A.M.P. (Automated Music Personality or Ampbot) from Sega-Hasbro stands 2.4-feet tall and features a MP3 or iPod cradle on its back, stereo speakers, and the ability to follow and interact with its owner. There’s a 5-inch mid-range speaker in the chest and a pair of smaller tweeters in the shoulders for a total output of 12 watts. Osamu Takeuchi of Sega Toys says, “The owner can also enjoy being chased around the house by the robot.

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Here’s a cool DIY headphone.  I can feel ya because I listen to music all day long too.  As soon as I am off the computer, I immediate switch onto my MP3 or iPod.

Since I listen to music/podcasts/audiobooks throughout the day while I’m working, I adapted a pair of normal safety earphones for speakers, and added a vintage look. I cut the outside portion of the cups off, replaced with a curved flat sheet of plastic -over which I mounted the grill (from an old record player) and the cork which I sanded to shape. Then I painted the rest of the shell green, and installed some $50 drivers. I still use them daily.

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Here’s an interesting DIY light bar controller that might interest your weekend hacking desires.

This device analyses the music it picks up via the electret microphone, then flashes the LEDs in time to the music. It’s encased in the box SparkFun sent me the microphones in, since the box was just begging to be used as a case for something! I’m sure that was intentionally designed.

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