jumango made a synth you can tuck in so it goes to sleep

Soundmaking and music can fill you with energy, so much so that you might miss out on the importance of a good night’s sleep. jumango has engineered a solution: tuck this DIY synth into a blanket, and it falls asleep.

Code turns MacBook hinge into a creaking door, Theremin

Apple’s MacBook series has had sensors in the hinge since 2019. One developer, Sam Henri Gold, decided to put that to use, first transforming the hinge into a creaking door, and next a playable Theremin.

Peter Kirn - September 8, 2025

Therminator, with a curvy abstract glyph of a box with cables and a dot in the center engraved into the 3D-printed case, USB-C and jack connections

Ther’minator by Eric Singer transforms LIDAR to modular, CV

Eric Singer is back. The interactive artist and inventor helped the idea of robotics and alternative interfaces break out to wider audiences over the past decades – and now he’s gearing up to put LIDAR in your modular rig or other devices with analog CV inputs.

Peter Kirn - April 4, 2025

1Uesday: BBCV FM Radio module, 29€ infrared KMNDR, more

Peter Kirn - March 19, 2024

bela Gliss: expressive touch meets computation in crowd-backed Eurorack module

Peter Kirn - December 8, 2022

Superbooth: SOMA Labs shows off microtonal TERRA synthesizer, packed with sensors

Peter Kirn - May 5, 2022

Go check out people making music and visuals by connecting synths to plants

Peter Kirn - March 15, 2022

Movements to music, as Instruments of Things goes live on Kickstarter with sensor system

Peter Kirn - September 20, 2021

SPIRALALALA transforms a spiral staircase into a vocal vortex

Peter Kirn - October 29, 2018