Gumball Sound Capsule

mitch altman

Wait for it.

"GumballSoundCapsule is a small sound-making project with 3 blinking lights.
It fits in a 50mm diameter gumball machine capsule.
Way low cost (about 1€ each if you make 10 of them).

It comes with a pre-programmed 28-second composition (which is kind of crazy). The sound is generated by Pulse Width Modulation (PWM) from a wave table, so it can make complex, interesting sounds. (If you feed the output into a recorder, the sound is way cool!)

The complete documentation for this open hardware project is at: https://github.com/maltman23/GumballS..."

Ardutouch mini jam

Published on Oct 4, 2017 Adam Banaszek

You might remember Ardutouch from here.

The ArduTouch Arduino-compatible Music Synthesizer Kit by Mitch Altman & Bill Alessi

This one in via Skot Wiedman, the man behind Motus Mavis and the recent Hyve touch synthesizer.

"Last month my friend Mitch Altman came to Champaign-Urbana and he debuted his ArduTouch synthesizer kit as well as his other cool projects for a guest lecture in the Interactivity II class I am teaching here at the University of Illinois.

Here we are in a photo taken by Mitch with the ArduTouch in front of the computer.

I didn't see you cover this cool little instrument yet so I thought to send it in. Here is the build instructions with a closer look at the project.

Enjoy!"

You'll find build notes at Cornfield Electronics here.

"This is a brand new kit as of March-2016 -- still a work in progress.

Solder the kit together, and it works!

Hack the Arduino sketch, and make your own cool synthesizers.

Soon, the documentation will be good enough to learn how to use Digital Signal Processing (DSP) to make your own sounds for your own projects.

The Arduino sketch for this project was mostly written by my friend Bill Alessi."

Update: videos added below.


Published on Aug 26, 2018 mitch altman

Playlist:
ArduTouch: Xoid synthesizer Demo
ArduTouch: Arplogy synthesizer Demo
ArduTouch: Arplogy synthesizer Auto-Improvise Demo
ArduTouch: Thick synthesizer Demo
ArduTouch: Mantra synthesizer Drone A Demo
ArduTouch: Mantra synthesizer Drone B Demo
ArduTouch: Beatitude synthesizer Demo
ArduTouch: DuoPoly synthesizer preset 0 "(Hive) Demo
ArduTouch: DuoPoly synthesizer preset 2 (Industry) Demo
ArduTouch: DuoPoly synthesizer preset 3 (Omission) Demo
ArduTouch: DuoPoly synthesizer preset 4 (Cadiz) Demo
ArduTouch: jamming