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Flight of Piezo

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May 18, 2025 at 1:06 AM
ardemp.bskyverified.social
Happy holidays everyone! This piezo cookie is vintage 2020!
December 25, 2024 at 2:31 PM
ardemp.bskyverified.social
Nice shots showing open and close PIEZO ion channels both on slide and on arm!
jorgealmagro.bsky.social Jorge Almagro @jorgealmagro.bsky.social · Nov 22
Fantastic Harvey lecture at Rockefeller Uni by @ardemp.bsky.social, with both great science + artistic performance
November 22, 2024 at 4:12 AM
ardemp.bskyverified.social
Hey folks! I got a tattoo of my beloved PIEZO ion channel on my arm! Now I can show how they activate (flatten) under pressure by flexing—Will add a bit of performance art to my science talks 🧪🧠.
November 22, 2024 at 4:05 AM
erictopol.bsky.social
Do you know about PIEZO receptors? We're learning more about their expansive role every day. A new podcast (with transcript and full video) with @ardemp.bsky.social, my friend and colleague @scripps.edu, who discovered these channels
erictopol.substack.com/p/ardem-pata...
Photo or Ardem and summary of main content related to PIEZO receptors
December 29, 2024 at 7:46 PM
erictopol.bsky.social
What is the biologic basis for itch?
www.cell.com/current-biol...
For more on the PIEZO ion channels erictopol.substack.com/p/ardem-pata... w/ @ardemp.bskyverified.social
January 20, 2025 at 3:49 PM
retr0.id
If you solder a ~10cm long "antenna" wire to a laptop's DRAM data bus, it makes it extra sensitive to electromagnetic interference.

So much so that clicking a piezo-electric arc lighter nearby can induce bit-flips.

I wrote an exploit to turn those bitflips into a shell:
October 2, 2024 at 10:11 PM
acearsenault.bsky.social
Harp/Zither Pickup Design

Random diagrams from my design journal. Been working on a pickup system for an experimental electric Harp.

#journal #music #workshop #electronics #art
Diagram of electronic piezo pickups for a harp.
April 14, 2025 at 4:46 AM
weirdguita.rs
Ibanez Ergodyne EDA-900 bass
The Ibanez Ergodyne EDA-900 bass (and its 5-string brother, the EDA-905) has a sculpted body with long, thin cutaway horns. There's a big pickup mounted in the middle position, right in line with the volume control. There's also a piezo pickup system in the bridge. Besides the aforementioned volume control for the magnetic pickup, there's also one for the piezo, an EQ for the magnetic pickup, and a treble boost/cut for the piezo.
March 2, 2025 at 4:28 PM
erictopol.bsky.social
PIEZO ion channels are to human physiology as GLP-1 drugs are to treating many diseases
science.org/doi/10.1126/...
@science.org
PIEZO-dependent mechanosensing is essential for intestinal stem cell fate decision and maintenance
Stem cells perceive and respond to biochemical and physical signals to maintain homeostasis. Yet, it remains unclear how stem cells sense mechanical signals from their niche in vivo. In this work, we ...
science.org
November 30, 2024 at 3:40 PM
matthewseiji.com
Why do the best podcast guests always sound like they are calling in on a piezo buzzer turned contact microphone from quasi-zenith orbit
September 17, 2026 at 5:54 PM
ardemp.bskyverified.social
First public reveal of Piezo tattoo! Thanks @leslievosshall.bsky.social for documenting this and for the appreciation after the talk. And welcome back to Blue Sky!
leslievosshall.bsky.social Leslie B Vosshall PhD @leslievosshall.bsky.social · Nov 22
If you really love your protein of interest commit to a tattoo @ardemp.bsky.social
November 22, 2024 at 4:10 AM
weirdguita.rs
Ernie Ball Music Man John Petrucci Majesty 8
This is a signature model that Music Man made for John Petrucci of Dream Theater, based on their Majesty model. This particular model is an 8-string and has fanned frets. It's vaguely Strat-shaped with a long upper horn. It's got two humbuckers and a piezo pickup in the bridge. There's a volume control for the humbuckers, one for the piezo, and a tone control, as well as a 3-way switch for the humbuckers and a switch to turn the piezo on and off. This guitar also has a switchable mono/stereo output and an active preamp with gain boost. My favorite part of the guitar is the paint. It looks black, but actually turns from purple to green based on how the light hits it. This particular guitar belongs to Steve Vai.
May 5, 2025 at 3:25 PM
ardemp.bskyverified.social
Nice catching up with @alexchesler.bsky.social while sporting Piezo hats.
August 19, 2025 at 4:03 PM
weirdguita.rs
Ibanez RG7CST
The Ibanez RG7CST is a really rare (only 13 were made in 1999) 7-string elecric guitar. It's got two humbuckers and a piezo pickup in the bridge. The humbuckers are controlled by a volume knob, a tone knob, and a 5-way switch. The piezo has its own volume knob as well. The real weirdness starts with the output. The guitar has two output jacks. There's a pushbutton controlling how they work. If the button is up, the piezo goes to one jack and the humbuckers go to the other one. If the switch is down, output goes directly to the second jack, and you can use a mini-toggle switch to choose whether you hear the piezo or the humbuckers. Oddly, there's no way to combine the output from the piezo and humbuckers from the factory.
March 25, 2026 at 3:27 PM
weirdguita.rs
Washburn PSAV
The Washburn PSAV is an acoustic Flying V-style guitar that was made for Paul Stanley of KISS. It's got a triangular soundhole in the upper part of the V. Strings go from the shar-shaped tailpiece, over a piezo bridge setup, down a neck with large block inlays, to a reversed 6-in-line headstock. The only control is a volume knob for the piezo system.
December 3, 2025 at 4:22 PM
leah.myatproto.social
I ❤️ Science Tattoos, this one is especially cool. Piezo channels are involved in mechanical forces, how we feel force and movement. 🧪
ardemp.bskyverified.social Ardem Patapoutian @ardemp.bskyverified.social · Nov 22
Hey folks! I got a tattoo of my beloved PIEZO ion channel on my arm! Now I can show how they activate (flatten) under pressure by flexing—Will add a bit of performance art to my science talks 🧪🧠.
February 13, 2025 at 10:03 PM
chordbug.bsky.social
until now I had been reasonably certain that piezoelectricity was named after an italian guy, probably called something like Giuseppe Piezo
July 16, 2026 at 9:27 AM
mnbm.bsky.social
last night i said tiesto instead of piezo and almost fell over laughing
February 22, 2025 at 5:49 PM
strafe.ing
seeing tsvi and piezo and soso tharpa tonight Yay ! Yay ! Yay !
February 28, 2025 at 6:35 PM
loneswordsmen.bsky.social
youtu.be/zn8QjBOH6pg

#StrictlyInstrumental

15. PIEZO

It's almost like the machines are crying. Outrageous shit.
Piezo
YouTube video by Autechre - Topic
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February 15, 2025 at 12:50 PM
ardemp.bskyverified.social
And here is the story after peer review. This work highlights our current approach, which is to use Piezo channels to uncover new areas of biology that are shaped by mechanical forces: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
November 13, 2025 at 10:05 PM
weirdguita.rs
Citron AE4 Swallow bass
The Citron AE4 Swallow is a double-cutaway acoustic bass with a long upper horn, a short lower horn, and a large oval soundhole. It's got piezo pickups in the bridge saddles, and you can actually move them to get the bass intonated properly. (Apparently this is the first piezo-equipped wooden bridge that you can move like that.) There's a volume knob in the upper horn, and the other controls (treble/bass and 3 gain controls) are in the control cavity on the back of the bass, along with the batteries for the EQ.
August 12, 2026 at 3:46 PM
weirdguita.rs
Rick Turner Model 1 bass
Rick Turner was known for his Model 1 series of guitar, but did you know that he also made basses? It's got the same single-cutaway body shape and movable pickup assembly, but with a bass humbucker instead of a regular one. This is a deluxe model with a piezo pickup and special preamp. There's a cluster of 5 knobs in the normal spot and one up by the upper bout, but I haven't been able to find out what exactly they do. I bet they're controls for volume and tone, a piezo volume, and EQ knobs.
July 31, 2025 at 3:19 PM
wotsac.bsky.social
Looking at my Ali order with literally dozens of electronics project bits and bobs (eproms, little OLED screens, floppy drive emulators, piezo buzzers) and literally shrieking inside
April 10, 2025 at 1:15 PM