Video: FluteTronic 8-Bit Light Flute

Posted by Joel Johnson, October 25, 2007 6:45 AM | permalink

The "FluteTronic" is a homebrew instrument that plays like a traditional flute, but uses various levels of light to trigger a sensor which in turn controls a synthesizer. A similar sensor in the mouthpiece controls the vibrato. The noise it makes isn't exactly music, but then again neither is Jethro Tull.

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#1 posted by Simon Greenwood

, October 25, 2007 7:15 AM

Hey, don't knock the Tull.

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#2 posted by Anonymous , October 25, 2007 8:18 AM

If this had been Digg, I would have dugg this down as lame. I mean, the hardware design is interesting, but the output certainly isn't. Couldn't they have at least had it producing a nice, 8-bit-sounding square wave? Blow harder, volume goes up, blow softer, volume goes down (so that tremolo is somewhat easy to acieve.)

Also, the Jethro Tull put-down is also worth an extra digg-down.

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#3 posted by Anonymous , October 25, 2007 10:03 AM

>> then again neither is Jethro Tull.

Dude, what's making you grumpy today? You're not *still* at that wretched Pop!Tart thing surely?

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#4 posted by Anonymous , October 25, 2007 10:06 AM

dude! why you harshing on the tull? not cool!

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#5 posted by Joel Johnson

, October 25, 2007 10:09 AM

Man, you hippies take your Tull seriously! Get a job, deadbeats!