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Playing Music With Barcode Scanners

A Japanese group called Electronicos Fantasticos! figured out that by connecting a supermarket barcode scanner to a powered speaker and rhythmically scanning barcode-like patterns with it, you can make music. This is so fun!

Discussion  4 comments

Mils Yobtaf

Similar but different is this amazing Symphony #2 For Dot Matrix Printers I came across on the web an uncomfortably long time ago.

You can listen on the Internet Archive here.

enbeecee

You can play the beginning of Oye Como Va by Santana on any microwave oven.

Jason KottkeMOD

I'm sorry, we're going to need some more information on the microwave oven Santana please ๐Ÿ‘€

Greg Lescoe

Oh nice, I saw these folks at the Maker's Faire in Kyoto earlier this year, and they had a setup for people to play with themselves! Very cool stuff.

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