Intonarumori Blender Box

Exterior of the Blender Box
The Blender Box
Inside the Blender Box
The interior electronics of the Blender Box

The blender box, sometimes referred to as the Magic Blender, is played by pressing a series of buttons that were scavenged from a blender. It sounds like a sci-fi blender, with different buttons giving the sound different “speeds” by increasing/decreasing the pitch.

Rob’s audio notes

For this I used a series of off-tuned triangle waves with a distinct “wobble” for that variable speed blender behavior. Then this chord is passed through a series of variable delays which created fantastic artifacts.

How we built it

The box follows our general box design with these modifications:

We scavenged a set of buttons from a blender, and attached them to an Arduino which passed on the selected button to the Raspberry Pi.

Box Fabrication Pictures

Buttons taken from the blender unit.
Buttons from the blender, ripped out.
Another view of the buttons
The buttons from the blender, exposed
Circuit diagram
The circuit mapping.