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Mark Frauenfelder at 12:10 pm Tue, Nov 11, 2008

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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

Mark Frauenfelder is the founder of Boing Boing and the editor-in-chief of MAKE and Cool Tools. Twitter: @frauenfelder. Come and hear Mark speak at the ALA conference in Chicago on July 1.

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  • 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)