Drawdio: Turn Almost Anything Into a Theremin

[IsaraiLee]

How do i make this for the pencil?

[Dan6hell66]

Que locura!!!

[xTheDeathSaintx]

my dog found this pretty entertaining....if not confusing

[householdprojects]

this uses resistance. Pretty simple but cool!

[bigboy9153]

IM SO CONFUSED

[Haberweasle1]

0:26 = Slenderman

[fablabamy]

best use ever of lounge sink :)

[wakeupsilver]

@fablabamy probably, but we've used that sink for some crazy stuff. long live the sink (and sinks in general)

[PTtub3r]

i'm gonna try to make this with an arduino but in a cooler way!

like having buttons drawn on the paper, and each one produces a note saved in arduino memory

[wakeupsilver]

@PTtub3r That's really cool. I've experimented with similar things. I'm excited to hear your results. One recommendation: if you want consistent enough measurements so as to consistently label the buttons don't go through the human with the circuit. Go directly through the graphite with a wire bypassing the human. Also, one more thing, make sure to not bend the paper and use a smooth surface! Good luck!

[Damuse8191]

well at least now we can talk to dolphins

[cb2198]

haha, awesome Jay.

[TheLorand14]

loool

[zoranhacker]

20 people are deaf

[St8Solja]

Where can I buy one?

[cyblox2000]

i wanna learn how to make it

[narutolll]

At 0:58 it sounds a lot like a squirl.

[dougpannep]

that was so amazing. fun and creative...thought provoking. once again proving that music is science.

[Nickarrrrr]

What a weird shirt

[FeloniousAngel]

That's flipping amazing.

[johnrivierok]

pokemon ... no one ??

[valkyrio]

Not a theremin, but still, a fun little gadget.

[hall1k]

I was totally gonna put a ZVex fuzz probe in my guitar, but now I don't need to! Just have to run the output from this circuit into the guitar's output somehow...

[djanigav]

The tune at the end was fucking tight.

[UnicycleFilms]

I can see someone getting this then being so amazed by it it starts taking over their life and they become obsessed and start to leave family and friends to find new places and things to make music out of.

[ArtistEngineer]

A Theremin is a particular instrument, not a particular sound.

To call that thing a Theremin is like calling a flute a piano. Both make sounds but they do it in completely different ways.

What made the Theremin truly unique was that it could be played without physical contact. This instrument is nothing like that.

[Ph7uX]

Sounds like a bunch of dolphins...

[Richardatf]

The girl at 1:15 is welcome to make my penis a theramin.

[psaiko666]

That´s the coolest invention since the...

since... uhm...

This is pretty cool

[TheBalthazar147]

MAKE A TUTORIAL TO MAKE SUCH A THING

[imptheman]

what is the song at 0:42

[tingulee]

isn't it dangerous to use??

[wakeupsilver]

@tingulee No not at all. For example, if the human body is 1 M-Ohm, and if the voltage in the Drawdio circuit is 1.5V DC, then the current is 1.5uA. That is 1.5 "micro" amp or 1.5 out of a million of an amp. It is generally not considered to start to be dangerous until you get to at least 40V or more, and even then the power source must be able to supply a very high current for a significant amount of time.

[codex653]

@wakeupsilver and it's actually in the mA range where it becomes dangerous...if all you have is a few uA, you arent gonna die no matter what the voltage is...granted the voltage can push higher currents through your body, but a few uA aren't gonna do a thing

[didanaid123]

PLS Whats name of song on 0:40 ? Thanks

[wakeupsilver]

@didanaid123 do you mean "the itsy bitsy spider" ?

[didanaid123]

@wakeupsilver no, it isnt pls help me :)

[Drakoman07]

@wakeupsilver no. indian snake charmers play it. At least on Johnny Quest.

[R3D3X777]

@wakeupsilver thats at 1:01. I don't know the one at 0:40 but its been around for a pretty long time. I'd like to know what the name of the song is at 1:44, even Shazam couldn't figure it out.

[wakeupsilver]

@R3D3X777 It's a song by Beau Silver

[lukelle]

@didanaid123 I remember the song as "Bombo" Subtune 3 from Ben Daglish

[BodaciousWench]

@didanaid123 Turkey in the Straw

[grifproductionvideos]

@didanaid123 take it off kesha

[grifproductionvideos]

@didanaid123 take it off by kesha

[grifproductionvideos]

@didanaid123 take it off by kesha

[grifproductionvideos]

@didanaid123 i think take it off by Kesha

[RossLGould]

@grifproductionvideos I really hope you're kidding; that tune is more than 100 years old.

[ivanaviNiebla]

@didanaid123 It´s from the fairy odd parents, the Norm´s theme, or something like that, the genius from the Aladin´s lamp xD

[SilverDHedgehog2]

@didanaid123

That would be an old stereotyped "Egyptian" melody

[transilvanianwarrior]

@didanaid123 thats a kesha song

[MrBoneStripper98]

ok i have to know somebody tell me how to make one of those, sombody tell me i need to know please, i need it, i need it. i wont die but i will only be living half a life (half life lol) with out one it will be nagging me in my brain now, i need one of those little therathings pleheheheheheeeeezzz.

[desinfector]

haha great stuff!!!

[emz33]

I just got freaking mind raped! How the hell do you build one of these!!!!!?!?!?!??!

[soleilpourtoi]

very cool!

[gizas90]

what's the name of that dnb in the background? pls reply :p

[wardruglord]

13 people dislike this because they don't have speakers

[wakeupsilver]

A true Theremin plays notes of more or less any pitch that the speaker it is hooked up to can reproduce. This is also basically true of a Drawdio. But to get drum sounds you have to have something digital in the loop to trigger them since they aren't made of a single pure wave the way pitches are.

I can be more detailed depending on what your goal is. But you could achieve this effect with Scratch and a Pico Board or with Arduino and some sensor hooked up.

[bearhung1]

can a theremin play other kinds of sound that has a lower pitch? Say, can it be made to play sounds of lower frequency like a drum?

[VJIchimaru]

WTF!!!!!!!!!!

[c4r50n1]

This isn't a theremin.

[johnnynicko]

0:59 Sounds like a Dolphin lol

[1CravenMorehead]

i dont know much about heremin, but orange socks are so 80's.

[ipodnanno]

I have to make one of those and use it as a pencil in class some day lol! I bet my teacher would love that.

[DuesEstSemperFidelis]

Nice idea... Extremely annoying sound...

[Rakkowakke]

you have to find where they are by testing it out, 2 youll also need a conductor to do this, in the video they used water and pencil graphite which conducts electricity quite well.

[guitarjammest]

how do you know where the correct notes for the song are? Like with the sink and the couch.

[wakeupsilver]

@guitarjammest The same way you know where the correct notes are for a song on a violin. You just have to feel around until you hear the notes you want and then go back to that same place. That takes some familiarity with listening for notes.

[Pyrofries]

@guitarjammest You have to have pitch accuracy within your hearing. It takes a while to develop

[watchthefaithrain]

@guitarjammest It's called "Playing by Ear".

[ThereminWeirdo]

@guitarjammest You gotta have a good ear, but you can do this w/ practice, too. You play guitar, right? Awesome. Anyway, find all your E-notes or G-notes, for example (open string E's &G's, too), and really listen to them. Sure the octaves and frequencies differ, but the pitch is always the same. Once you memorize pitches through listening and pracice, you will be able to readily identify pitches on any instrument, including Theremin. Note memorization... that's one way to do it. Rock on!

[ronfarvay]

That's pretty awesome.

[38828601manu]

Imagine a house whith not one, but millions of theremins setted up in everything!!

that square-wave sound would stay in your brain until you die!!

[ThereminWeirdo]

@38828601manu Oh, it already does... and I only have one theremin. ;) ;)

[capchassuck]

its a pencil lead organ i made one on a radio shack kids lab years ago look up the radio board / other electronics projects / theremin used by the beach boys . on google i posted a detailed schematic there.

[TheInventor24]

can you please send me the parts list

[wakeupsilver]

@TheInventor24 see drawdio dot com slash make.htm

[ryanandbranslurppiss]

sounds like a dolphine

[MITCHEZZZZ]

Would be cool to hide it and piss people off.

[LacyLeda]

Lol at 0:41! That is so cool!!!

[c4r50n1]

not really a theremin, you dont touch theremins

[dude247rocks]

that is epcic. I need one

[dowling1981]

@dude247rocks Your portentions are cruel. Voltar has arisen. Beware the minstrels with the coming morn. Get them?

[UNITEDSPACEFLAG]

...hey this is what i need for some trash-audio-experience....

check UNITEDSPACEFLAG

[Mrthestyle1]

love 0:42

[JagrrrTV]

how you do that?

[tedmerr]

Bill Cosby's Picture Pages would love to get ahold of this

[fukuufukingfuk]

your web site reuires a login. how do i get one?

[hamdemond1]

thats awesome!!!

[traenq]

awesome! :) I'm still getting a "real" one, but that's really inspiring.

[snoPuppy250]

HAHAHAHAA!!! i would soooo want to try that!! i'd look like such a dumass, but i'd have fun doing it!! plus an extra bonus would be that it would piss ppl off cause of the stupid squeaking!! XD

[danbaumann84]

quero uma parada dessa!

[CynderTheDarkMaster1]

0:41.. Very funny music hahahaha.... makes me Roll On Floor just now aaahahah..

[Dontpanicplease]

This is awesome. However I'd like to see this done with another sound (anything but this sound will do). Very, very interesting to watch the drawing part.

[Concept0000]

I approve of this

[c4r50n1]

not really a theremin

[PowderHeight]

can it make any other sounds besides that annoying squeaky one?

[wakeupsilver]

@PowderHeight someone needs to first modify the way it works so that it can output other sounds. it's a do-able project that i'd be excited to see.

[wcr4]

@wakeupsilver Well you could convert it to MIDI, right?

[IHaveDimensia]

@wakeupsilver or you could simply put the audio output through different effects.

chorus, flanger, phaser, wah, wammy, delay, reverb. you name it.

[PowderHeight]

@wakeupsilver Thank you for responding, I am not sure if you just uploaded this, or if you are one of the subjects in the video testing this "instrument" out... If you are, then you should tackle it, you might come up with some groundbreaking material... if not, then that makes 2 of us (of course im referring to being excited about seeing if it can make other sounds)

[st1llborn]

where do i get one of those????

[bombasticplastix]

Clever folks in this world. I could see this thing souped up and being ooodles of fun at someplace with a lot of wild fun naked people to paint on,maybe sometime around Labor Day out in the Black Rock Desert anybody know a spot like that?

[Agresif]

kurşun kalem nedir? tahta ve ortasında karbon amınakoyim bu kadar basit. sen ne yapıyorsun orada kalemin karbonuna bir tane pilli  buzzer bağlıyor sende kalemin ucunda çizim yaptıktan sonra karbona dokunuyorsun iletkenlikten dolayı bir direnç oluşuyor o direncin değişikliğinden dolayı ses frekensı farklılaşıyor

[wakeupsilver]

@Agresif Hello. Your answer is basically correct. It is a regular pencil with carbon (graphite) in the middle. The sound changes due to the change in resistance. Let me know if you have other questions.

[sobeita]

Great video! Oh, but I did a search for Beau Silver, and I can't find his music anywhere. Do you think you could give us a link, or upload a song if it isn't online?

[mrgoodvibrations]

lol....nice stuff here

[mrgoodvibrations]

lol....nice stuff here

[maddhatter1506]

too much time on there hands.. lol but atleast its creative

[Floydthefuckbag]

So damn cool!

[themanthatrocks985]

How and why does this device work?

[BlenderDaily]

it sends a current through what ever object and whatever is touching the object, e.g. the graphite on the paper form a pencil. this makes it so the distance causes different frequencies. Thats my guess, but i have no idea...

[Jorickhoofd]

hahaha, that's really cool

[TheZeldacrazy]

that is such a cute sound

[GreenTrashRiddla]

occasionally i'm hearing part of an aphex twin song thrown in ther, it sounds like, but this video isn't working for me if it is one

[iKeyboard15]

this looked cool :)

[VinceV]

Wow a whole new level of irritating stuff

But nice interaction

[taylz94]

00:40  EPIC

[PsychicButterfly1]

lol that rocked

[chakin4141]

LOL!

[KKinsane2009]

O_o you what?! thats fricking amazing, i'm going to build one right now as soon as I research how :D

[bosone666]

thanks for setting up the video response!

i will try to understand my low frequency buzz...

anyway, drawdio is one of the weirdest idea i ever saw! :)

[tomnintendo]

when it is used water is amazing

[rofu37]

if i owned one of those i'd never be bored ever

[SavedByGODsGrace777]

WOW. The whole world can be used as an instrument.

[TomNook007]

HOLY SHIT

[UpstagedRagdoll]

This. Is. SO. COOL.

[quirty1]

whats the song playing in the background?

[1viva]

Wow, you are one, ingenious and imaginative person!.

Pretty good! :-)

[CharlesBabbageJR]

Neat! :DD

[samerziadeh]

LOL WTF

[aldichiara]

Do it with pee

[Tracebebo]

u can't, u simply can't

[wakeupsilver]

I've actually tried this. It only works when the stream is very short. Otherwise it breaks up into individual droplets that are physically separated and so can't conduct electricity.

[Desertmusician]

This is genius, if I would;ve had one of these in high school, I would've dominated to class clown stardom.

[garrysmodrulez]

LOL at 0:27

[BOGROVSHORA]

So coool !

[SIKORAWILLIAMS2]

next will be my first day of high school i if i got 1 of those id freak out the teacher... How much?

[kryziz]

i want one! hahaha

[theolevy]

how do i get one??

[betawicupu]

WHAT THE FUCK? LOL

i want that.oh yes.

[Ouraniax3]

aaaaaaaaaaaaaawesome x) xD

ueeeeep

[RouJoumis]

Bwahahaha. 'A Place In France' was priceless.

*follows links for more info*

[TheKitchenSinkII]

What's the song at the very end f the video, during the credits/advertisements?

[wakeupsilver]

It's a song written by my brother Beau Silver

[iFAWKESproductions]

haha, amazing! The title says turn "almost" anything. So what can't you do? :P would like to know!

[gibsoncoca]

anything that isn't made of metal and is dry/water repellent.

[wakeupsilver]

And specifically anything that doesn't conduct electricity, which as iFAWKESproductions says is usually anything that doesn't contain metal or water (or graphite).

[DazmoTube]

i would put that somewhere nobody should. it would scream OMG!

[Peppens]

LOL!! AWESOME!!!!

[GuitarFreakReegs]

dude this would make some hilarious pranks with people! haha i so gotta try that out!

[madamerotten]

Bruce Haack did similar work many years ago.

[rkfan2323]

how exactly dose this work, and where could i buy one? and whats it called?

[klauzes]

Are you suffering from ADHD ?

[rkfan2323]

no, but you are.

[klauzes]

I'm what ? :D LOL true, true :) You got me

[rkfan2323]

haha

[bucketheadfn]

meeeee

[RuffyD22]

brilliant :D

[BestKHparodies]

This is AWESOME. You deserve a prize!

[tehsuckdotnet]

I WANT ONE!

[RobloxianJet26]

So What all do you need to make one?

I'd just like to bug people in school without them knowing what it was! XD

[Nicky3guns]

dude wtf how and where can i buy one

[peles73]

Great :))

[weskoki]

Ha ha.....amazing!

[AppA]

Wow!

If you could turn the modulation surfaces into MIDI CC messages then... then.... MY HEAD WOULD EXPLODE FROM UTTER JOY!!! :D :D

Also I wonder if it will work on my giant pet squid.

[jacob11896]

how do u do that!!!!

[schleckgurke]

what's the song at 0:41?

[wakeupsilver]

it's an old folk song, but i grew up knowing this as "there's a place in france where the naked ladies dance"

[JimC]

The whole song is "The Streets of Cairo, or the Poor Little Country Maid". See the wikipedia entry. It was supposedly written for the Columbian Exposition in Chicago for the dancer Little Egypt. The first 5 notes are the same as some older songs.

[jonjb2a]

Where do you order or buy the harmonium and/or "harmonium" to build one of those things and try them out? Or can you build one of those wacky circuits from scratch? Either way, cool!

[thebizzlehimself]

The title is wrong. A theremin is a completely different instrument. What the drawdio is, is a type of stylophone.

[Odood19]

i have one!

[lboy9889]

awesome

[Chatatonic]

How cool is that !? I want one !!!

[tylerjaye]

you could totally hide one of these under a bench or something in a public place and freak the hell out of people.

[planetcaravan93]

or in class at school XD

[captainmurphy52]

you gotta patent this homie!