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Saturday, January 24, 2009

WiFi theremin - Hack a Day


WiFi theremin

posted Jan 23rd 2009 4:34pm by Eliot Phillips
filed under: digital audio hacks, wireless hacks

The fine folks at Midnight Research Labs have put together a new toy for you to play with. It's a Python script that makes your WiFi hardware behave more like a theremin. Based on the pyaudio library it monitors the signal strength of the AP you're connected to and changes the tone accordingly. There's a sample embedded above (direct link). If you have a second interface, you can use it to modulate the volume. It's an interesting trick, but they say that there's enough latency that it would be hard to play actual music with it.

Go the the Page...

http://hackaday.com/2009/01/23/wifi-theremin/

Don

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