"We started from a very silly place,"
"We have to use the low pressure sensor. Which means to play it, you must suck."
"They're this huge e-waste product,"
A maker team in New York dismantles spent Elf Bar disposable nicotine vaporizers and converts them into digital musical instruments called the Vape Synth. The design retains the cartridge form with added speakers, lights, and buttons and uses the vaporizer's existing low-pressure sensor as the input; drawing air through the sensor triggers an oscillator to generate audio. Buttons change tones, producing screechy, chaotic sounds that the creators embrace as playful. The project team includes NYU professors and a Cornell PhD student who run workshops, present at events, and published a detailed Instructables guide for building the synths.
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