Tinkerer Archive

  • Digi-Key’s Android App Listed as a Top App

    Digi-Key’s Android App Listed as a Top App

    Posted on February 8, 2012 | No Comments
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  • Air rockets are dumb. Make your own floppy drive echo / delay unit

    Air rockets are dumb. Make your own floppy drive echo / delay unit

    Posted on April 23, 2010 | No Comments
    You could spend your weekend making the compressed air rocket posted below. That’d be fun. Or you could get a few floppy drives together and make your own tape delay and reverb. Yeah, that sounds much more exciting. This DIY project comes by way of Oakland, CA from a Daniel McAnulty. Musician, tinkerer, and just a [...]

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  • Meet Marc Flores, the new MobileCrunch writer

    Meet Marc Flores, the new MobileCrunch writer

    Posted on February 2, 2010 | No Comments
    I begged and pleaded with Greg, editor of MobileCrunch, not to make me write this, but it looks like I'm stuck introducing myself to you all. So in my best Troy McClure voice let me say: Hi, my name is Marc Flores. You might remember me from popular sites such as Boy Genius Report or True/Slant.

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  • Les Paul, father of the solid-body electric guitar, dead at 94

    Les Paul, father of the solid-body electric guitar, dead at 94

    Posted on August 13, 2009 | No Comments
    Strum out a few chords of Stairway, friends, because the guy who pioneered the solid-body electric guitar, Les Paul, is dead. He died of complications from pneumonia in White Plains, NY. Paul also invented multitrack recording, the process of playing and recording multiple tracks at once. This led to incredible - and decidedly mechanical - [...]

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