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tEChnOLOGICAL communion: Beginning the construction of the suit

fraktalize

Hello again, everyone! Recently I was struck by a very harsh cold, and I have been unable to work on the project for the past weeks. Now I am slowly regaining my energy, though, so I have been able to pick up some work again after this long hiatus!&n...
- 30 Mar 2016
Design Challenge Project Summary: PlectralEffects *Final Update*

CharlesGantt

Welcome back for another Design Challenge Project Summary. For those of you who are new to my content, in this series I will pick a single project from the past week’s updates, and write a short summary of the project to date. Over the course of each...
- 30 Mar 2016
Kazumi - 08 - 3D Modelling Part 3 (Capacitive Sliders)

luiszayas

This blog post is about the redesign of the capacitive sliders. As I mentioned, the electrodes will wrap around the side of the acrylic pad. This allows for the soldering points to be hidden and not on the side which is touched. This was a probl...
- 28 Mar 2016
Vintage Toy Synthesiser - Patch Manager Application and Sound Demos

liamtmlacey

At the start of this project I wasn't planning on having any kind of sound/patch storage or management within the vintage toy synthesiser, however as the project progressed I was more and more finding the need to quickly save and recall patches f...
- 28 Mar 2016
Background

Former Member

Background Put simply the PlectralEFFECTS project is a new form of input that a guitarist can work with in their performances to trigger effects. Instead of effects being triggered in more traditional manners; Pedal or envelope follower, Plectra...
- 24 Mar 2016
PlectralEFFECTS Progress

Former Member

Update Greetings! This is just a quick update, I have a lot more to cover which I will. A few of the components for the design challenge arrived, no sign on the BBB?I have decided to not keep waiting any longer for kit to arrive, I ha...
- 23 Mar 2016
Pocket Version of the DIY Drum kit

carmelito

My last weeks post involved, Controlling and Monitoring your 3D printer with BeagleBone and OctoPrint and this week has involved, a lot 3D designing and 3D printing an enclosure for Pocket version of DIY Drum kit using the SparkFun's Capaci...
- 21 Mar 2016
Kazumi - 07 - 3D Modelling Part 2 (+lifeSupport)

luiszayas

Hey! Today I have done the next steps of 3D modelling in order to build my prototype.The pads will now have 6 electrodes each. This is due to 7 pins on the MPR121 breakout boards becoming available, as I am no longer going to use rotation and ma...
- 20 Mar 2016
Vintage Toy Synthesiser - Audio Synthesis Engine Implementation - Part 2

liamtmlacey

Just over a month ago I posted about the implementation of the audio synthesis engine for the vintage toy synthesiser, however since then I've got the synths front panel developed and fully working which has allowed me to rapidly complete the mai...
- 20 Mar 2016
How to Write Your Design Challenge Blog Posts

spannerspencer

A few years ago I was one of 20 winners in a worldwide screen writing competition. Pretty cool eh? The prize was 18 months of tuition and script development with an established screen writing tutor, which has paid no end of dividends. One ...
- 17 Mar 2016
Controlling and Monitoring your 3D printer with BeagleBone and OctoPrint

carmelito

My project the DIY drum kit is going to include quite a bit of 3D printing, which meant that I had to try out setting up OctoPrint (OctoPrint.org )on the BeagleBone black, which would give me a web enabled UI to control,3D print and monitor my printe...
- 16 Mar 2016
Design Challenge Project Summary: DIY Drum Kit *Final Update*

CharlesGantt

Welcome back for another Design Challenge Project Summary. For those of you who are new to my content, in this series I will pick a single project from the past week’s updates, and write a short summary of the project to date. Over the course o...
- 15 Mar 2016
Kazumi - 06 - 3D Modelling Part 1

luiszayas

Hi everybody, Last week I worked on the structure for the next prototype. The first model, which I finished last Monday was designed to fit the maximum printing dimensions of an Ultimaker 2 printer (with some margin). This is somewhat small...
- 14 Mar 2016
Vintage Toy Synthesiser - Panel - Part 2 (Electronics and Software)

liamtmlacey

Last week I posted about the design and construction of the front panel for the vintage toy synthesiser, however another thing I had been doing alongside that is putting together the electronics and software for allowing the synthesis engine to be co...
- 13 Mar 2016
Vintage Toy Synthesiser - Adding Sockets for External Connections

liamtmlacey

Even though I ended up constructing a brand new front panel for the toy piano for this project, the rest of the enclosure of the vintage toy synth will be using the existing piano enclosure. Apart from the front panel, the other part of the piano tha...
- 6 Mar 2016
Uploading wav files to Soundcloud.com using the BeagleBone

carmelito

This is a tutorial to record a .wav file, using ALSA -arecord when a button a pressed, and then upload the recorded file to Soundcloud.com , as shown in the video below www.youtube.com/watch Here are the steps you will have to follow -#1 Se...
- 6 Mar 2016
Music Tech Challenge - Motion tune 韻動 - Post 5.Kit Unboxing 套件開箱

momososo

To see all my post about this challenge很高興這禮拜終於收到了參賽套件。下面是開箱圖與零件介紹外箱 BeagleBone Black Rev 3*BeagleBone Black Rev 3* Adafruit Proto CapeAdafruit Proto Cape GLOBAL SPECIALTIES WK-3 70 JUMPER ASSORTMENT KITGLOBAL SPECIALTIES WK-3 70 JUMPE...
- 5 Mar 2016
Kazumi - 05 - Using multiple MPR121 boards

luiszayas

Hi everyone, I feel like I have been stuck in the world of Pure Data for most the past three days. *head spinning* I have managed to get values from all four MPR121s flowing into Pd (again with the help of Chris from the Bela platform team)...
- 4 Mar 2016
Wintergatan - Marble Machine

tomaja

You might find this interesting. I do www.youtube.com/watch Cheers!
- 2 Mar 2016
Vintage Toy Synthesiser - Panel - Part 1 (Design and Construction)

liamtmlacey

The front panel of my vintage toy synthesiser is the place where all the dials and buttons for controlling the sound parameters will be attached to the toy piano. While the final design of the panel has turned out very similar to how I had originally...
- 1 Mar 2016
Kazumi - 04 - Implementing Capacitive Touch

luiszayas

Hello, Today I am going to show you how I have managed to use capacitive touch in conjunction with the piezo transducer to enable pitch changes within a pad. In the example I was given at QMUL for using MPR121s, a sine wave of different fre...
- 28 Feb 2016
Kazumi - 03 - Accessible Music Hackathon

luiszayas

Howdy! Three weeks ago, I took part in the Accessible Music Hackathon that Drake Music organised at the Centre for Digital Music at Queen Mary University of London. In the past year, I have regularly attended Drake Music's DMLab as it i...
- 27 Feb 2016
Music Tech Challenge - Motion tune 韻動 - Post 4.DataStorge-Hardware 資料儲存-硬體

momososo

To see all my post about this challenge 終於收到UPS通知，套件預計在下禮拜三會收到。趁著228連假再來補一下進度這禮拜要整理的是使用SD卡儲存資料的電路由於忘了買SD套件只好先使用其他開發板的電路，也不想再買了，等BBB來再直接用板子上的uSD電路即可。下面這張是KL26開發板的電路，是使用SPI通訊。比較BBB的電路，可以發現其實腳位是相容的，只是BBB多一顆106電容(10uF,10V)，但是BBB還有使用SD來安裝...
- 27 Feb 2016
Design Challenge Project Summary: Kazumi *Final Update*

CharlesGantt

Welcome back for another Design Challenge Project Summary. For those of you who are new to my content, in this series I pick a single project from the past week’s Design Challenge Project updates, and write a short summary of the project to dat...
- 25 Feb 2016
Sacrificial Violin

selement14

The video you are about to witness, can be difficult to watch, as it was a bit difficult to make. The idea of taking a perfectly good Violin and sacrificing it to the good of the project takes some serious will power. Especially if you have nev...
- 21 Feb 2016