Monthly Archives: October 2008

Solar Powered Beam Bots

Posted on 2008 10 16 by Jason Job

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 … Continue reading →

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Simple Max Serial To MIDI Patch

Posted on 2008 10 12 by Jason Job

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 … Continue reading →

Posted in MIDI, MaxMSP, OSX, arduino, make, prototyping | 2 Comments

Serial Communication Tool For OSX

Posted on 2008 10 01 by Jason Job

Coming from a Windows background I previously used HyperTerminal as a serial communication tool. When I moved to a Mac I tried an app called zterm that is a sort of HyperTerminal equivalent, but found it to be a bit … Continue reading →

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