Recent Circuit Bending/DIY Music Related Sale Items
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Hank The Curmudgeon
May 22, 2011, 2:26:19 PM5/22/11
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Greetings,
These pertain to the local Chicago market but might spur you into looking for the same in your area.
Item 1. For DIY'ers Menards has Vibe It audio drivers that "Turn Anything [hollow] Into A Speaker" on sale for $9.99 each with an $8.00 rebate for a final cost of $1.99 each. Limit 2 and the purchase must be made by 5/30 with rebates mailed in by 6/16. (Use rebate coupon 5372). Menards store locator @ http://www.menards.com/main/storeLocator.html
Vibe It at Amazon http://www.amazon.com/Vibe-VIMB10-It-Black/dp/B0042L29KW/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1306086136&sr=8-1
Vibe It demo at myvibeit.com/demovideo
My thought for DIY Music is to attach Vibe It to rattly or tuned resonators and drive them with your voice possibly picking the resultant output back up piezo contact mics for further processing. The result would act as a poor mans electro-acoustic kind of vocoder. Hmmm...a Vibe It driven membrane type didgeridoo? Or a Vibe It driven steel garbage can lid with loose rivets similar to a sizzle type cymbal?
Item 2. For circuit benders the Half-Price Books in Countryside Plaza, Countryside, IL 60525, on La Grange Rd. just North of Joliet Rd. has two apple crates, one full of Guitar Hero guitars, one full of PSP style controllers, selling for $2 to $4.99 each depending on condition. Input controllers anyone? This location also has plastic bongos of unknown application with a USB connector cord from time time for around $5 each. The bongos' "heads" are hard plastic and not acoustic be any means. If you go the crates were in the back by the washrooms and the bongos are on top the bookcase by the junk software section. I've also seen kids electronic noisy stuff as well including a genuine Speak N' Spell which they actually had in a locked display case! I'd suggest those outside of the Chicago area check out their local HPB for similar bendable items.
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Hank The Curmudgeon
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Greetings,
These pertain to the local Chicago market but might spur you into looking for the same in your area.
Item 1. For DIY'ers Menards has Vibe It audio drivers that "Turn Anything [hollow] Into A Speaker" on sale for $9.99 each with an $8.00 rebate for a final cost of $1.99 each. Limit 2 and the purchase must be made by 5/30 with rebates mailed in by 6/16. (Use rebate coupon 5372). Menards store locator @ http://www.menards.com/main/storeLocator.html
Vibe It at Amazon http://www.amazon.com/Vibe-VIMB10-It-Black/dp/B0042L29KW/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1306086136&sr=8-1
Vibe It demo at myvibeit.com/demovideo
My thought for DIY Music is to attach Vibe It to rattly or tuned resonators and drive them with your voice possibly picking the resultant output back up piezo contact mics for further processing. The result would act as a poor mans electro-acoustic kind of vocoder. Hmmm...a Vibe It driven membrane type didgeridoo? Or a Vibe It driven steel garbage can lid with loose rivets similar to a sizzle type cymbal?
Item 2. For circuit benders the Half-Price Books in Countryside Plaza, Countryside, IL 60525, on La Grange Rd. just North of Joliet Rd. has two apple crates, one full of Guitar Hero guitars, one full of PSP style controllers, selling for $2 to $4.99 each depending on condition. Input controllers anyone? This location also has plastic bongos of unknown application with a USB connector cord from time time for around $5 each. The bongos' "heads" are hard plastic and not acoustic be any means. If you go the crates were in the back by the washrooms and the bongos are on top the bookcase by the junk software section. I've also seen kids electronic noisy stuff as well including a genuine Speak N' Spell which they actually had in a locked display case! I'd suggest those outside of the Chicago area check out their local HPB for similar bendable items.
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Hank The Curmudgeon
- Inventor And Builder of Obscure Things, Odd Mechanisms and Curious Objects
- Certified Curmudgeon
- Insufferable Know-it-all
- Machining and Fabrications in Brass, Steel, Copper, Wood, Aluminum, Plastics
- Pneumatics and Hydraulics
- Computer Aided Drafting
- Electronics and Electrical Control
- MIG and SMAW Welding
- Reader of Books and Maps
- Friend to Dogs and Cats
- Doodads Dismantled
- Ideas, Cogitation, Arguments
- Bombs Defused
- Devotee of Good Pizzas
- Incessant Inquisitiveness
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