The Landscape Ferrous finally in my hands! I have not tried it extensively yet, but it is described as a "Spinning Magnetic Polyphonic String Resonator".

It has such a smooth feel. The wood case sits great in one hand. Here's a short demo of me turning it on and spinning it up with both the dial and the trigger button.

Landscape is hit and miss with me, sonically. For one, a majority of the sound profiles of the instruments are in an audio range that resembles (and aggravates) my tinnitus hyperacusis. So not my go-to. I like some of those sounds as ornaments, not whole instruments.

But this... is like an eBow on psychedelics. Even on an unpowered electric guitar I can hear the complexity of tones it brings. Really looking forward to playing more with this!!!

#craque #ExperimentalMusic #LandscapeFM #Ferrous

So, when you buy a bag of metric 304 stainless hex nuts, and each nut is attracted to a magnet by a different amount of force, that's a sign of quality, right? 😂

#quality #qwality #chinesium #M3 #nut #HexNut #stainless #304Stainless #ferrous #magnetic

hey hey whats happening behindgen, behindgen the scenes and all other puns you can think of - https://ferrous-systems.com/blog/binding-with-bindgen/

#ferrous #rustlang

Arduino Finds Treasure

A beach is always a relaxing summer vacation destination, a great place to hang out with a drink and a book or take a swim in the ocean. For those who need a more active beach-going activity with an electronics twist, though, metal detecting is always a popular choice too. And, of course, with an Arduino and some know-how it's possible to build a metal detector that has every feature you could want from even a commercial offering.

This build comes to us from [mircemk] who built this metal detector around an Arduino Nano and uses a method called induction balance detection to find metal. Similar to how radar works, one coil sends out a signal and the other listens for reflections back from metal objects underground. Building the coils and determining their resonant frequency is the most important part of this build, and once that is figured out the rest of the system can be refined and hidden treasure can easily be unearthed.

One of the more interesting features of this build is its ability to discriminate between ferrous and non-ferrous metals, and it can detect large metal objects at distances of more than 50 cm. There are improvements to come as well, since [mircemk] plans to increase power to the transmission coil which would improve the range of the device. For some of [mircemk]'s other metal detectors, be sure to check out this one which uses a smartphone to help in the metal detection process.

#arduinohacks #arduino #coils #ferrous #metaldetector #nano #nonferrous #range