Drawdio kit

Make has posted a video of a neat new kit from Adafruit called the Drawdio.

Drawdio is an electronic pencil that lets you make music while you draw! It's great project for beginners: An easy kit with instant gratification! Essentially, its a very simple musical synthesizer that uses the conductive properties of pencil graphite to create different sounds. The result is a fun toy that lets you draw musical instruments on any piece of paper.

Shown here is a Drawdio mod called Unruly. How-to Tuesday: Drawdio meets Unruly

• [magicseth]

  It is worth noting that the Ada Fruit Drawdio is based on Jay Silver’s work at the MIT Media Lab. http://drawdio.com/

• [avraamov]

  Adult maker: ‘what’s your favourite thing about drawdio?’

  Kid: ‘that it has like shared creative commons license’

  Adult maker: ‘um yeah. me too.’

  do i laugh or cry?

• [wakeupsilver]

  (for #4)
  >”It would be nice to have a list of the >components”

  Hey Nawel. I have always put a design up with a list of the simplest possible components that are most commonly available at http://drawdio.com so that anyone can make it with parts available in even a minimally stocked electronics lab.

  Jay Silver

• [mdh]

  Time to get your crayons and your pencils!!

  FF to about 1:50 for the reference.

• [Nawel]

  It looks nice, but this kind of posts always get to a point where you look at the list of needed materials and it goes link “All you need is bla, bla, bla… and a “Whatever” kit”.

  It would be nice to have a list of the components of such a kit (for example the Drawdio kit), since it might not be available everywhere as a kit, or have a different name, or for those who can’t buy over the internet or don’t want to order stuff overseas.

  It reminds me of some old radios that could be done using a simple wood piece as base (plus other components, of course)

• [Nawel]

  old radios = crystal set radios :)

  (thanks wikipedia)