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Circuit Playground Adds Light and Sound to Your Toys or Props

Are you looking for an easy and inexpensive way to upgrade your toy weapons or props, whether for cosplay or just fun? This is a pretty cool way to do it. An all-in-one board called Circuit Playground lets you add light and sound effects to any weapon or wand, or…

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Endless Rain Record: A Literally Long-playing LP

Normally, when I want to relax and block out the sounds of the world, I turn on the White Noise app on my iPhone, and crank it up. But if you want something a little different to help you unwind, check this out. Designed by Kouichi Okamoto for Kyouei Design,…

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MacGyver Intro without Music: Solving Crimes with Sound Effects

One of the highlights of the week for me growing up was each fresh episode of MacGyver. The only thing that could spoil it for me was a rerun, but I watched them anyway. MacGyver had a one-word name, an epic ’80s mullet and got himself out of jams using…

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Skatehack Ramps Add Sound Effects While You Skate: Disco Flip

The sound effect that triggers when you pull off a special trick in Tony Hawk Pro Skater is burned into my brain. That and Suicide Machines’ New Girl. If you’d love to augment your real world skating with sound, check out Skatehack. It’s an urban art and research collective that…

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Mega Stomp Battle Motion-Activated Sound Effects: Faux Foley

Kids love to play fight. Just give them a few seconds of idle time and their minds will transform them into all sorts of characters. Soon enough you’ll hear them making sound effects for their movements and weapons. But the problem with being their own foley artist is that they…

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DIY Sound Effects Suit Jacket: Applause

A young man named Kenneth Guglielmino is one step closer to living in a 90s sitcom. He hacked together a suit jacket that emits cliché audience reactions at the push of a button.…

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Kaleidoloop Sound Collector: for Wannabe Foley Artists

In case you haven’t noticed, everything is a remix. Good artists and inventors stock up on influences and material from other sources. If you’re a musician or if you want to make your own sound effects or if you just want something to listen to when you’re wasted, you can…

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Project P.E.W. Mod: LARPing in Skyrim

It’s been less than a week since Bethesda Softworks released the Skyrim Creation Kit but their goodwill has already paid off. Why do I say that? Because of Project P.E.W., a mod by YouTuber birgirpall.…

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Super Mario Bros. With Modern Sound Effects: Aurally Brutal

Aside from graphics, video game sound effects have gotten more complex over time as well. But does that mean that they have gotten better? What if the sound designers back then had access to the technology we have today? YouTube user virtjk made such an experiment, and he went after…

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Crash Around in Gundam Slippers

Having a bad morning? That’s no reason to should suffer alone! And what better way to pass on that a.m. headache than by adding kickin’ sound effects to your lurching gait? These squashy slippers sound off with the crash of earth-shredding stompy robotics with every step, turning a previously-mundane trip…

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Tag: Sound Effects

Circuit Playground Adds Light and Sound to Your Toys or Props

Endless Rain Record: A Literally Long-playing LP

MacGyver Intro without Music: Solving Crimes with Sound Effects

Skatehack Ramps Add Sound Effects While You Skate: Disco Flip

Mega Stomp Battle Motion-Activated Sound Effects: Faux Foley

DIY Sound Effects Suit Jacket: Applause

Kaleidoloop Sound Collector: for Wannabe Foley Artists

Project P.E.W. Mod: LARPing in Skyrim

Super Mario Bros. With Modern Sound Effects: Aurally Brutal

Crash Around in Gundam Slippers

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