Just received some aluminum faceplates for my arduinome that I got through a group buy organized by @z15 on the monome community forum. (Thanks!)
These aluminum panels are each 5 mm thick which leaves about 2 mm of the SparkFun buttons exposed. My initial test of the faceplate has resulted in a lot of the buttons [...]
I finally got together all the parts that I need to build myself a monome clone.
Arduinome is a clone of the open source monome 40h which uses an arduino microcontroller.
Wikipedia says, “The monome is an eight-by-eight grid of backlit buttons which connects to a computer using a USB cable and the Open Sound Control (OSC) protocol. Originally [...]
I just found out about Pachube over on the Make: Blog and am feeling really inspired. Pachube is just awesome! It is a service created by HAQUE design + research that “enables you to connect, tag and share real time sensor data from objects, devices, buildings and environments around the world. The key aim is [...]
This last week I have been working on making the operation of my MIDI controller prototype more robust. One of my tasks has been to debounce and latch the states of my pushbutton toggle switches. Though you could use hardware for debouncing and latching I chose to do it with software. Doing it this way [...]
Today I built a DIY cardboard MIDI controller. I used an Atmega168 with code written in Arduino and programmed on an Arduino NG. The whole circuit is breadboarded and connects to the computer via a single USB cable. The serial output of the MIDI controller is parsed by a MaxMSP patch to the IAC Driver [...]
My 2 year old daughter has recently become interested in a couple of solar powered robots that I built a few years ago so I thought I would share them here. Both bots were built from instructions in Make Magazine vol. 06. The first one that I made was a ‘Trimet’. The Trimet uses a 1381-based solarengine with three 4700uF capacitors in [...]
I have programmed an Arduino to output serial MIDI CC messages when I adjust potentiometers connected to it. To control my MIDI capable applications I could just send this data to a MIDI cable and then to a commercial USB-MIDI interface, but that would still require another cord to power the controller. Instead I have [...]
