[accessibleimage] Drawdio

Hi,
Drawio, draw and get sound at the same time. Thought this was interesting and some might find it useful. Came across this at Eli Whitney Museum site. Perhaps you are familiar with it. In anycase thought
it might be something that could be used to encourage drawing.

Llink to website about construction, background

From site
What is Drawdio?
Imagine you could draw musical instruments on normal paper with any pencil (cheap circuit thumb-tacked on) and then play them with your finger. The Drawdio circuit-craft lets you MacGuyver your everyday objects into musical instruments: paintbrushes, macaroni, trees, grandpa, even the kitchen sink...

How Can I Participate?
Build it on your own or build it from a kit. Then modify it, remix it, and invent with it.

How Was It Invented?
One day I bought a "harmonium" kit at the street market in Bangalore. I hacksawed the keyboard off to make the first ever drawdio circuit. We played with it at a local school in the slums using plants, water, our foreheads, etc. My friend told me graphite would work too. Meditating on it, I realized the Drawdio circuit should be literally attached to a pencil to "draw audio," and that's where the name came from: Draw + Audio.  

Link from the Eli Whitney Museum with other projects made with Drawdio


Also link to how to make, paint brush, piano etc from Eli Whitney

To get a more tactile line one could perhaps use a drawing board with metal insect netting on under paper and use a soft lead pencil (think it would make a more tactile line).
In the video they show they used a brush with water this makes sound and then it is easier to feel



Regards,

lisa


Lisa Yayla
Huseby Kompetansesenter
Oslo Norway

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