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Megachordotron is a DIY MIDI controller using Teensy

For 2016 Maker’s Faire at New York, Will Ware made Megachordotron, a Teensy powered MIDI controller with a touch sensitive keysboard. In his own words: “It’s intended for people (like myself) who are too clumsy to play a guitar“. This design is open-source and he has posted all the files on Github. In the following Youtube video, he shows the demo of his instrument.

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Hacking IKEA LAMPAN table lamp

Last month, we looked at a IKEA Molgan Lamp hack and adding ESP8266 connectivity to it. Here is another IKEA lamp enhancement project by Jesus Echavarria from Spain, where he hacked IKEA LAMPAN to include features like manual RGB controller to set the light colour, a timeout to turn off the light after 30 minutes without changes and a bluetooth connection to control the lamp with a smartphone or tablet. The system is based on a PIC18F2550 microcontroller, with a 12MHz external crystal. This allows run up to 48MHz internal code (using the internal PLL), necessary to manage the RGB leds. The RGB led’s

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