Wristwatch Turntable Bends Circuits, Impresses Girls
Wristwatch turntable turns your wrist into a party for more than one
If you ever went into that teddy-bear store down at the mall, grabbed one of the recordable bears and left an obscene message on it, ready to traumatize some poor little kid, you’ll know how much fun can be had with a low-fi digital sampler.
But what about taking one of those samplers and modding it to make it even better (and potentially less damaging for poor, unsuspecting children)? That’s just what Mikeasaurus did over at Instructables, making these amazing Wristwatch Turntables.
There are two “turntables” here, each made from a talking greetings card — one recordable and one pre-recorded. Mikeasaurus wired these chips, along with their speakers, up to potentiometers and put the whole lot inside two furniture-moving disks from the dime-store.
Despite what you’d think, the pre-recorded chip is the most interesting. While the recordable one lets you grab your own samples and play them back with a few buttons poking through the disk, the potentiometer only controls volume. Twisting the disk on the other chip, though, actually does some circuit bending, allowing you to approximate the sound of scratching vinyl.
What I really love, though, is that this is a wrist-mounted instrument. This arbitrary and wholly impractical design decision turns this from a pretty neat circuit bending project into a gadget that will make you popular wherever you go. As Mikeasaurus himself points out, you can “be a DJ Hero with wristwatch turntables!”
Wristwatch Turntables [Instructables]
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Fuente: Gadget Lab
