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Make yourself at 'home'...
If it's not already obvious - this website is pretty empty right now. I'm revamping it after a loss of some data at the old site. Besides, the old one was pretty - but messy. I like clean. You could call this spring cleaning.
Description:
Original idea was a MIDI drum triggered by a piezo element attached to a bamboo drum. The bamboo bowl broke and the piezo pickup was weak. I also realized that MIDI was an awful idea for a drum. Drums should be expressed in their own timber and unique sound. Conversion into digital is wasteful. So now the plan is just a bowl with a suspended mic. That's hardly a creative project, so this one is on the backburner for now.
Description:
This is a music software controller. I am now aiming for somewhere between 8 and 16 'buttons' using a pair of shift registers to handle the input of many buttons. Hopefully this will give me the ability to base the whole controller on an ATTiny85 microcontroller. The buttons are going to activated by capacitive touch using carriage bolts. The purpose of this project is to bring a basic MIDI controller to the DIY community with a cheaper bill of materials that some of the most popular solutions. $100 is not fun a fun pricetag for a DIY MIDI controller.
Description:
This is another concept-in-progress. The plan is create a device that has a pre-recorded loop of raindrops and a set of many prerecorded thunder claps. The internal software will use a somewhat random algorithm to determine whether the thunder should be loud or soft - emulating faux distance. Depending on the 'distance', a series of light flashes will precede the thunder. The light will be produced with LEDs. An SD card/reader may be necessary. No patent pending. Ain't nobody got money for dat!!
