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Home-Made Synths from Tupperware Trip the Light Fan-Plastic
Posted by Addy Dugdale at 1:05 AM on March 18, 2008
This is what you do if you think that your Tupperware boxes are too good for food, turn them into home-made synthesizers. Adachi Tomomi has made a bunch of them, including a video synthesiser and a couple of Theremins. Consisting of a simple battery-powered electronic circuit, the synths don't have perfect pitch. The Tomomin (bottom left in the gallery) even has a four-note keyboard, and was made from a bunch of Texas Instrument integrated circuits. [Adachi Tomomi via Make ]
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Feral
Posted March 18, 2008 9:30 AM
Hmmm, our 3.7 cubic meters of tupperware looks a little different. ;)
MikeHinds
Posted 5:41 AM 18/3/08
@ps61318:
That was Lorena Bobbit, BTW.
Best quote from the Bobbit affair was from John Bobbit after the trial: "I've got a lot of healing to do."
MikeHinds
ANoel
Posted 5:41 AM 18/3/08
This seems to be an incredibly perfect misuse of things we normally take for granted.
Props for creative repurposing dude!
... and they look coo!
ANoel
faabshaam
Posted 5:41 AM 18/3/08
I'm interested in having a tupperware party. Anyone in here a purveyor of said goods?
faabshaam
ps61318
Posted 5:41 AM 18/3/08
Ok, this guy is obviously not married. Do you know what a wife would do to her husband if he bogarted all this tupperware and made it unusable for holding food? That's a justifciation for malicious wounding (which is what Marina Bobbitt was charged with, BTW) in many states.
ps61318
Princess Sparkle Pony
Posted 5:41 AM 18/3/08
We used to do this with candy tins. They weren't quite as cute as these ones, but they were a lot hardier.
Princess Sparkle Pony
DeadWriter
Posted 9:39 AM 18/3/08
But will it keep your music fresh.
DeadWriter
ANoel
Posted 9:39 AM 18/3/08
@thebear91:
Stuff in some Bounce... would look good too.
ANoel
thebear91
Posted 9:39 AM 18/3/08
Tupperware plastic is highly susceptible to static build up. Not a great electronics enclosure.
thebear91
LastVigilante
Posted 9:39 AM 18/3/08
This reminds me, in high school I built a distortion box for my electric guitar, then housed the board and circuitry inside a wallet box. It's ultra-ghetto looking, but works like a charm! Oddly enough, I still have the distortion box, but no longer have an electric guitar!
LastVigilante
ps61318
Posted 2:05 PM 18/3/08
@MikeHinds: doh. Yes. Lorena. Jeez, I hope I didn't offend her.
ps61318