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I was just researching about this LM386 IC and i found out that it was an audio IC. So i thought i would some good use of that.This Instructable will guide you to make a portable Bluetooth speaker.

Nice video from Scientific American discussing how the human brain reacts to music

Currently on view at the Place Des Festivals in Montreal, Impulse is a new public art installation comprised of 30 completely illuminated seesaws and a series of video-projections on nearby building facades. When the seesaws are used they “activated” and begin to emit tones resulting in various musical harmonies. The project is part of a … Leggi tutto

Chicago composer Olivia Block is happy enough writing for violins, but she really loves sounds that don’t often count as music. That can include the urban ambience she hears walking around her hometown — the creaks and grunts of an elevated train, the whirr of machinery — or, in some cases, sounds most of the … Leggi tutto

The Wintergartan Marble Machine, built by Swedish musician Martin Molin and filmed by Hannes Knutsson, is a hand-made music box that powers a kick drum, bass, vibraphone and other instruments using a hand crank and 2,000 marbles.

For nearly a decade, New Orleans organist and inventor David Rolston, better known as Quintron, had harbored a particular dream: to build a synthesizer controlled by the weather. As a touring musician, he could never find the time. And then, in 2011, he was diagnosed with lymphoma.  

We’re already fans of The Counterpointer and how it is made. So it was fun to see this video from the New Museum that shows some behind-the-scenes shots of the guts of the synth and its testing and assembly

Gav and Dan make a split-second powder paint rainbow using an old drum.

AquaSonic is the most ambitious project to date from Danish musicians Laila Skovmand and Robert Karlsson, in collaboration with members of their ensemble Between Music. The work presents five performers who submerge themselves in glass water tanks to play custom-made instruments and sing entirely underwater. Transformed inside these darkly glittering, aquatic chambers, they produce compositions … Leggi tutto

Electric Ivory is an interactive piano experience that explores how participants with different musical experiences approach the prepared piano. Electric Ivory also explores how interaction guides the experience of live analog & digital sound.

This new music video for composer Ralf Hildenbeutel’s track Disco was created from over 1,200 individually hand-painted frames. Directed by Boris Seewald, the clip uses an animation technique called rotoscoping to turn the real-life movements of dancers Althea Corlett and Simone Schmidt into a series of drawings and paintings to make each scene. Despite the … Leggi tutto

Every Tuesday is Art Tuesday here at Adafruit! Today we celebrate artists and makers from around the world who are designing innovative and creative works using technology, science, electronics and more. You can start your own career as an artist today with Adafruit’s conductive paints, art-related electronics kits, LEDs, wearables, 3D printers and more! Make … Leggi tutto

We hope you enjoy this look inside the Steinway New York factory, narrated in detail by the late, great John Steinway. To learn more about Steinway & Sons, visit http://www.steinway.com.

Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith has become one of the most fascinating champions of modular synthesis in recent memory…her explorations in synthesis reach an apex on her stunning new album EARS, out April 1 on Western Vinyl, blending woodwind and her own vocals with the primordial sounds of the Buchla to make her most definitive statement yet. … Leggi tutto

Andy Cavatorta creates new musical instruments and eerie sounds with homemade machines of spinning arms, wine glasses, circuit boards and software. He’s basically a sculptor of sound. And oh yeah, Björk commissioned Andy to build her something for her World Tour.

There’s a lot of art & science that goes into the audio engineering of music, but eventually all that data has to actually be made into a thing. That’s where places like The Vinyl Factory come in, as manufacturers of handmade limited edition vinyl records. This quick, 1-minute video shows the process at their facility … Leggi tutto

Wonderful historical devices described in Hatje Cantz’s Allah’s Automata: Artifacts of the Arabic-Islamic Renaissance (800-1200) via Hyperallergic A reconstruction of the Banū Mūsā music automaton, created for the ‘Allah’s Automata’ exhibition (image courtesy Hatje Cantz)

Things continue to be fairly calm: rc5 is bigger than rc4 was, but rc4 really was tiny. And while we’re back to fairly normal commit counts for this time in the release window, the kinds of bugs people are finding remain very low grade: there’s absolutely nothing scary in here. If things continue this way, … Leggi tutto

ARM is an active contributor to Linux® and a large number of open source projects and initiatives to enable new hardware capabilities and optimize performance. Projects span across a large range of domains including mobile, embedded, Internet of Things, networking, infrastructure and cloud computing. To foster closer collaboration on open source projects, Linaro™ was created … Leggi tutto

pyLCI is an external interface for configuration of your Linux devices in an easy and quick way. It can be used on: Embedded devices (where dependency on Python isn’t problematic to satisfy), such as OpenWRT-powered routers Single-board computers, including, but not limited to Raspberry Pi, BeagleBone and many others Tablets and laptops Servers Desktop PCs … Leggi tutto

In this week’s edition of our open source news roundup, we take a look at how to build a Linux router, why Internet of Things devices should be completely open source, and more!

OpenHAB is an open source automation platform designed to use a pluggable architecture, which means that new devices and protocols can be added easily. This pluggability extends also to the persistence layer, so your system can maintain its state information on your choice of platform.

The 184 AAV is designed with full redundancy – If one set of the power system are operating abnormal, the vehicle can still operate a normal flight plan and ensure the safety of the passenger together with the vehicle. The 184 was designed to be a 100% with green technology, and is powered by electricity … Leggi tutto

What is LXD (“lex‐dee”)? Imagine you could launch a new machine in under a second, and that you could launch literally hundreds of them on a single server. Now, imagine hardware‐guaranteed security to ensure that those machines can’t spy on one another. Imagine you can connect them separately and securely to networks. And imagine that … Leggi tutto

Boardcon Embedded Design, an ODM in Shenzhen, China, has previously shipped single-board computers with quad-core ARM SoCs including the Samsung Exynos4412 (EM4412) and Allwinner A31 (Compact A31S). For the MINI3288 computer-on-module that powers its new sandwich-style EM3288 SBC, Boardcon has opted for the Rockchip RK3288, which offers four Cortex-A17 cores clocked at 1.8GHz, plus a … Leggi tutto

MediaTek’s $20 “LinkIt 7687 HDK” module runs FreeRTOS on its WiFi-enabled, Cortex-M4F based MT7687F SoC, and offers Arduino shield expansion.

The NetworkManager team just released NetworkManager 1.2, Less dependencies Improved Wi-Fi and IPv6 privacy Wider support for software devices Improved command line tool Better documentation Support for multiple concurrent VPN sessions Improved command-line experience Our command line client is now friendlier and more flexible than ever before. It uses colors to match the status of … Leggi tutto

we are going to see how to stop using flat files and directly send our application logs to a centralized log collecting stack (ELK). This approach presents numerous advantages: Your machines’ drives are not getting filled up, which can lead to service interruption. Centralized logs are much easier to search and back up.

1. See What’s New in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 2. Check for Any Last Minute Updates 3. Install Linux Graphics Drivers 4. Install Media Codecs 7. Install New GTK and Icon Themes 8. Decide Where App Menus Show Up 9. Explore The New ‘Software’ Store 10. Install Your Favourite Apps 11. Sync Your Cloud Account(s) 12. … Leggi tutto

This new edition comes with the new ‘snap’ package format and LXD 2.0 pure-container hypervisor. While desktop users might like these, the main audience for these features is the enterprise.

The new VirtualBox 5.0.18 update isn’t a major milestone like the 5.x update, but it does have all kinds of incremental fixes that make VirtualBox work better.

GNOME Maps offers an easy-to-use interface, favorites, route mapping, standard and satellite view maps, and much more.

What is Richard Stallman, the father of free software (if not open source) like in person? And what is he thinking now about Linux, terrorism and French politics? I gained some insight recently when the founder of the GNU operating system spoke near Paris.

Bigtable A Distributed Storage System for Structured Data Bigtable is a distributed storage system (built by Google) for managing structured data that is designed to scale to a very large size: petabytes of data across thousands of commodity servers. Some features fast and extremely large-scale DBMS a sparse, distributed multi-dimensional sorted map, sharing characteristics of … Leggi tutto

Slide decks from 41 OpenIoT Summit talks are now online, from sessions including AllSeen, Brillo, mBed, Iotivity, Tizen, Weave, Zephyr, and IoT security.

If you’ve been following Canonical/Ubuntu at all, you’re probably aware of the announcement of their first Ubuntu Tablet, the Aquaris M10 Ubuntu Edition. It is being produced by the manufacturer that made one of Canonical’s first Ubuntu phones, BQ, headquartered out of Spain. Currently there are two versions to choose from: The FHD (Full HD) … Leggi tutto

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS will come with support for Canonical’s (relatively new) Snap packaging format Developers can give you the latest version of their app App isolation and confinement improves the security and reliability of the app

These release notes for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) provide an overview of the release and document the known issues with Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and its flavors.

Which technology will you use to deploy your next big application?

Foreman, A opensource tool which not only handles configuration of your servers but also does provisioning. Foreman is easy to install, opensource, has community based support and a good deal of documentation.

The seven major Linux desktops can be ranked on a spectrum from the highly customizable to those that are little more than launchers for their applications. 7. KDE 6 Cinnamon 5. MATE 4. GNOME 3.Xfce 2. Unity 1.LXDE

“LibreOffice 5.1.2 is targeted at technology enthusiasts, early adopters and power users. For more conservative users, and for enterprise deployments, TDF suggests the “still” version: LibreOffice 5.0.5. For enterprise deployments, The Document Foundation suggests the backing of professional support by certified people,” reads today’s    announcement.

The latest numbers this week for the Linux kernel Git code-base peg the total file count as 53,647, 21,414,097 lines of code, 588,744 commits, and these commits were done by 15,150 authors.

Just like Google Chrome and Opera, Vivaldi is based on the open-source Chromium project, which means that it inherits most of its technologies, offering users the same level of quality and stability while bringing some unique features to the table, some of which we’ve listed below for your reading pleasure.

he OTA-10 update for the Ubuntu mobile OS has finally arrived today, April 6, 2016, as officially announced by Canonical just a few moments ago, for all supported Ubuntu Phone devices, as well as the first ever Ubuntu Tablet.  

WhatsApp has enabled end-to-end encryption across all versions of its messaging and voice calling software, according to a Tuesday announcement on the company’s website. Given that WhatsApp is already in use by over 1 billion people worldwide, as users upgrade to the latest version, it will become the most widely used end-to-end crypto tool.

Home Automation software is software that lets you control and monitor common home and office appliances using a computer. Home automation used to be confined to turning on and off lights and appliances. But the possibilities are much wider letting users build a wireless network, automate TV and hi-fi, monitor pets when you are away, … Leggi tutto

SAN DIEGO — For the first time, Linus Torvalds has spoken at an embedded Linux conference, the Linux Foundation’s 2016 Embedded Linux Conference & OpenIoT Summit. It’s not that embedded Linux hasn’t been important before. Your DVRs and Wi-Fi routers almost certainly run Linux. What has changed is that the Internet of Things (IoT) is … Leggi tutto