South African group Bateleur decided that simply purchasing their latest album from iTunes was too easy. So, they took a Raspberry Pi, uploaded their album to it and set it to transfer the files to a USB stick when a “secret whistle” was…
Category: Music
Comparison of sound card DACs for the Raspberry Pi from RasPi.TV
Alex Eames from RasPi.TV has tested out some sound cards from IQaudIO, JustBoom, and HiFiBerry. What’s great about his review is that he’s not only tested out what they sound like but also what kind of user experiences you get when faced with the task…
What music do birds like? Find out with a Raspberry Pi, a camera, and loads of tunes!
Elizabeth Demaray, in collaboration with computer scientist Ahmed Elgammal and Rutgers University’s Art and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, has developed a way to determine if music affects the moods and habits of birds. Masquerading as a bird table, PandoraBird plays music…
Mexican bacteriological experiment produces biology-driven music via a Raspberry Pi
A Mexican team of Paloma López, Leslie García, and Emmanuel Anguiano (together, they are known as Interspecifics) have created a nature-driven musical instrument. Micro-ritmos is an art installation in which ‘music’ is generated by patterns formed by bacterial cells. The material…
Self-playing wooden pipe organ uses a Raspberry Pi and Arduino
Wendell Kapustiak has built a self-playing wooden pipe organ. The organ has 42 wooden pipes (representing 3.5 chromatic octaves). Each wooden pipe is different and had to be custom-cut to play the right note. A “blower” used to cool data centres…
Amazing flaming art piece uses Raspberry Pi 3 to control 2000 blinkies!
A fantastic sculpture/musical instrument is currently being shown at various festivals in the United States. Le Attrata is an innovative fire sculpture created by Therm, made up of three stainless steel moths with 12-foot wingspans, set on top of 18-foot high spires. The…
Keeping track of vinyl records with a Raspberry Pi and lots of blinkies
The Raspberry Pi Foundation have just blogged this so I thought I’d share it with you. Mike Smith has a lot of vinyl records and he has trouble keeping track of where they all are located on his shelves. So, he took…
Building an air drum kit with a Raspberry Pi and Wii controllers
David Pride, who previously created the wonderful motorised Connect 4 game (which handed me my butt at the Big Birthday Weekend), recently went to a car boot sale and found an “air drum” kit for £1. Taking this as inspiration, he…
Pack up your troubles in your old (gig) bag with a Raspberry Pi and Arduino
Martin Hertig took a guitar bag, hooked up an Arduino to the zips via conductive thread to make a MIDI controller and then added a Raspberry Pi into the mix to create his project, called Zippy. The Pi runs FluidSynth synthesizer…
All That Jazz – retro project playing archival music through a Raspberry Pi
James Bellafaire wanted something that would play jazz music “all day and all night” and give him an authentic experience at the same time. So, he found an old 1930s radio on eBay, won the auction and refurbished the case.…