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This Could be the Perfect Busking, Mobile Amp and PA: Roland’s CUBE Street EX
Ever wished for something, but figured it was more or less impossible? At the end of a Roland briefing yesterday, a rep pulled out the CUBE Street EX amp almost unceremoniously. And then he showed me what it could do: It produces “50 watts” of power.* It runs on eight AA NiMH batteries – for […]
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Gibson Buys Stanton, Gets Speaker and DJ Business, Calls Itself “Lifestyle Brand”
Ce n’est pas un phonographe. Photo (CC-BY-SA) Roadside Guitars. Gibson Guitar has announced in a press release they’re acquiring the Stanton Group, which includes, aside from the well-known Stanton DJ brand, KRK monitoring products and Cerwin-Vega loudspeakers. It’d be easy to see this as a guitar company buying a DJ company, but it’s more than […]
Arduino VGA Signal Visual Glitch with Sebastian Tomczak
The Arduino isn’t quite an deal choice for a live generative visual computer – but it can do some gorgeous things with signals. Sebastian Tomczak has a gorgeous hack (as seen via Limor Fried) that manipulates RGB data lines with the Arduino. You connect horizontal and vertical sync signals, then go to town. The Arduino […]
Peter Kirn - April 3, 2009
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Ask CDM – Monitor Over USB: Have You Used DisplayLink Devices to Add Extra Outputs?
Jaymis Loveday - January 19, 2009
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Cheap Gear: The $42 LCD Monitor Review (and Other Inexpensive Visualist Bits)
Jaymis Loveday - October 23, 2008
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Processing Meets Quilting
Peter Kirn - March 13, 2007
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