Drawdio: Turn Almost Anything Into a Theremin

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wakeupsilver | November 18, 2008

Imagine you could draw musical instruments on normal paper with any pencil (c...

wakeupsilver | November 18, 2008

Imagine you could draw musical instruments on normal paper with any pencil (cheap circuit thumb-tacked on) and then play them with your finger. The Drawdio circuit-craft lets you MacGuyver your everyday objects into musical instruments: paintbrushes, macaroni, trees, grandpa, even the kitchen sink...

One day I bought a "harmonium" kit at the street market in Bangalore. I hacksawed the keyboard off to make the first ever Drawdio circuit. We played with it at a local school in the slums using plants, water, our foreheads, etc. My friend told me graphite would work too. Meditating on it, I realized the Drawdio circuit should be literally attached to a pencil to "draw audio," and that's where the name came from: Draw + Audio.

DIY: Make it. Remix it. Play it.

See http://drawdio.com

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

  • @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.

  • can you please send me the parts list

  • @TheInventor24 see drawdio dot com slash make.htm

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

  • @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.

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