Over 20 years of ideas are bursting from Bradford Reed’s unique pencilina. “I haven’t hit a wall
with it yet” after all those years. He put together a full story on pencilina.com

Neat little product that takes snapshots of the acoustic noise being generated from an object.

www.acoustic-camera.com

Making cool instruments that people want! Now this is a competition worth supporting.

DESIGN ENTERPRENEUR CHALLENGE:
http://tei-conf.org/12/Main/DesignChallenge

CONCEPT:
The promise of tangible, embedded and embodied interaction is to
transform the way we interact with technology. This year’s design
challenge aims to push these transformations beyond the conference and
into the world. The winning work will be WANTED, not just liked, by
the jury and the audience of the conference. This means that the
winning project team will have the responsibility to make the design
happen, to produce it and to deliver it to the participants who vote
for it – with their wallet.

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Georgia Tech is bringing together all the innovative instrument builders for their yearly contest.

Be sure to check out Georgia Tech’s 2012 Margaret Guthman Musical Instrument Competition

More violin posts. There isn’t one technique that separates the great violin makers. But Professor Francis Schwarze received some good press with his. He uses special fungus to manipulate wood. His techniques help the wood resemble growth that occurred during the a colder period in 16th and 17th centuries.

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