TokyoFlash, one of our partners in crime, has just launched Kisai Escape C Bluetooth watch, it’s a watch that was designed as a result of crowd-sourcing through their customers, fans, and trendsetters. (You can check out their blog here where they do a lot of crowdsourcing and you can participate.)
The result? Well, I think it speaks for itself. It’s not a phone watch (and why would people need phone watches
When I go fishing over at my local Pacifica pier for crabs for other ocean fish, I take my super, huge cooler with me. Well, here’s a great Bass DIY that shows you how to build your own portable stereo cooler so you can bump some music next time you are fishing or at the beach.
Okay so I basically stole this idea after seeing it at a friends party. However, I think that I improved on it some. Basically it is a regular cooler with a car battery and car stereo / car radio built in. This write up should serve as a decent How-To build a stereo cooler (aka cooler stere
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Even since my friend who used to be a DJ showed me his sequencers and how he can make cool music, I’ve been fond of sequencers in general. But here’s a fantastic DIY lego sequencer you should take a look at where you can actually use lego pieces to build your sound.
I think this could also be great idea for teaching kids about sequencers and music. Brilliant!
Artist slash musician Yoshi Akai makes a lot of electronic musical instruments, including this 3-
TerminatorX is a free program that let you scratch your favorite digital files (such as an MP3) like a real DJ turntable by using a mouse. I have used similar programs before and they are surely what future of music industry could be, I predict most of the DJs in year 2020 will be using that instead of vinyl.
Anyways, it’s not much fun to scratch using your mouse but here’s a great hack that shows you how to hack an old mouse and convert it into a digital DJ turntable input device for TerminatorX.
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I have always been fond of internet radio as I listen to it 24/7. The best part about internet radio is that you can listen to new music everyday, you don’t have to be listening to the same MP3s all over again.
For those of you with some circuit modding/hacking skills, you might want to try making your own internet radio with your old WiFi routers. Most routers can nowadays be hacked with an open-source linux like OpenWRT, DD-WRT, and more. Free source code is provided here so I don’t see
Recently, my mom has a problem with her ears and we were swimming together the other day when I noticed a silicon-thingee stuck on her ears. Upon asking, she told me it was new silicon earplugs that fit your ears by molding itself.
Well, that got me the idea that you can actually use these silicon earplugs as mold for your earbuds. Not only will you get a perfect mold for your ears, essentially your earbuds will have customized earbuds without paying for an expensive, custom earbuds.
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For those of you guitar enthusiasts out there, you might be happy to learn that you can make your own digital guitar pedal. Although you probably will need to learn how to program a PIC microcontroller, but the results might just be well worth it. Circuit schematics and source code is provided free of charge so that takes care of much of your programming. This could be a really good guitar pedal you could build for fractions of buying one off retail stores.
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Apple has been doing so much to keep their competition at the bay including making their Apple earbud remotes to be undecipherable. Well, there’s a hack for that, check out this great article that shows you how to reverse engineer the Shuffle remote control. #AppleFAIL
In March 11th, 2009, Apple introduced the third generation iPod shuffle. Shortly thereafter, criticism[1] was raised regarding the presence of a proprietary chip inside the shuffle headphones, said by some to be an auth
For those of you Transformers fans who like to tinker with amps, you should really take a look at this great article on how to make a vacuum tube amp. Very inspiring, I wouldn’t mind having one of these sitting in my living room.
Schematics are available for those up for the challenge.
This past summer I saw Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen and I was inspired to build an enclosure for a vacuum tube amplifier that incorporated the Decepticon logo. The tube amplifier repla
For guitar enthusiasts out there, you might want to check out this hack that involves making a power supply for your guitar pedal so you don’t have to keep using 9-volt batteries.
If you’re like me, you know how annoying it is to use up 9V batteries on your guitar effect pedals. Its wasteful, and brand name 9V’s are almost $9 for a two-pack. If you forget to turn off your pedals you’ve thrown away big bucks. Its an extreme waste of money when you can build your own power supply for only about $25.
