Bananaphone synthesizer ripe for a spot of grubstep
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The Venn diagram of objects you can eat, and objects from which digital synthesizers have been made is one with minimal overlap; but thanks to Gadget Gangster's Jeff Ledger and his Bananaphone synthesizer, that union has gotten a little bigger
Apparently inspired by a recent Kickstarter project (almost certainly the MaKey MaKey, which enables bananas and other objects to be put to use as a computer interface devices), the Bananaphone is instead built using some of Gadget Gangster's own add-on kits based around the Parallax Propeller microcontroller
Employing an identical principle to the MaKey MaKey, touching the banana keys increase the capacitance in the connection points, increasing the resistor-capacitor time constant monitored by the microcontroller, which in turn decides if the synth should play tones accordingly
Employing an identical principle to the MaKey MaKey, touching the banana keys increase the capacitance in the connection points, increasing the resistor-capacitor time constant monitored by the microcontroller, which in turn decides if the synth should play tones accordingly
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The Venn diagram of objects you can eat, and objects from which digital synthesizers have been made is one with minimal overlap. But thanks to Gadget Gangster's Jeff Ledger and his Bananaphone touch capacitance synthesizer, that union has gotten a little bigger.
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