Enhancing DIY musical instruments with custom circuit boards
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Ferguson, John
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Matosinhos, Portugal & online
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This paper explores the use of bespoke printed circuit boards (PCBs) for enhancing Do-It-Yourself (DIY) making of electronic sound devices. With the tools and manufacturing costs now within reach of amateur makers, the production of PCBs for DIY projects can add stability and reproducibility to the growing number of custom instruments used in ubiquitous music projects. The article discusses the impact of maker culture on the custom development of electronic musical instruments, and how incorporating PCB design can extend these developments. Several case studies are described and lessons from these for DIY makers are outlined.
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Proceedings of the 11th Workshop on Ubiquitous Music
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© The Author(s) 2021. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) License, which permits unrestricted, non-commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, providing that the work is properly cited. If you alter, transform, or build upon this work, you may distribute the resulting work only under a licence identical to this one.
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Music
Digital and electronic media art
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Brown, A; Ferguson, J, Enhancing DIY musical instruments with custom circuit boards, 2021, pp. 83-91