December 2009

Cutting a cog…

December 28, 2009

I finally got some good carbide end mill bits for my gantry router – seriously don’t wast your time with the Dremel cutting bits, they just heat up and burn the material you are cutting. I bought some 1/8″ 2 flute spiral end mills. The cutting is really clean now – and no scorching. This [...]

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Little Boots laser harp video – Part III

December 26, 2009

I just got an alert that part 3 of the Little Boots laser harp video is up. I love the line “…makes Laser Harps in his bedroom…” This isn’t entirely correct as all Laser Harps are actually made in my secret underground lair, and I did move out of my Mum’s house several years ago.

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Another Laser Harp build…

December 21, 2009

Jack in the UK sent me this shot of his laser harp build running… He actually has a special version of the firmware running on his with adjusted timing (notice the 8 beams rather than 10) I also like the idea of putting the whole thing into a flight case – very neat. A great [...]

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CNC Gantry Router

December 20, 2009

I just assembled my Christmas present – a CNC Gantry Router kit I ordered from Bluumax. The kit arrived in two boxes – I needed to cut some MDF as a base and table first (this was not supplied). It took a while to put it all together, as the instructions are provided on the [...]

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The Times review of the Little Boots gig

December 16, 2009

The Times newspaper published a review of the Little Boots gig in Leeds – “At the centre of the backdrop a giant skull gazed forebodingly over the throng. On the skittering Gothic spook-pop of Ghosts it established the requisite emotional temperature. As Hesketh shed her back shroud to reveal an all-gold outfit in the opening [...]

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…an ILDA compliant Laser Harp controller

December 15, 2009

I’ve been working away for the last month or so on developing a laser harp controller that could hook into an existing stage lighting rig. This project was for Victoria Hesketh or “Little Boots” as she is known in the UK. If you already own an ILDA compatible projector and are looking to add MIDI [...]

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…examining the Eigenharp

December 10, 2009

The Eigenharp is a MIDI controller + virtual modelling synth engine developed in the UK. There’s a pretty good movie here that explains what it can do: You might need to skip the first couple of minutes to get the “meat” of the video. I posted a comment on the above clip that, in retrospect, [...]

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Hey, I was on TV…

December 10, 2009

…and I missed it. I just stumbled across this last night, I remember giving the interview, but forgot to watch it… I’m sandwiched between the robotic giraffe and the cupcake bicycle at about 1:49 http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7mcd1_attack-of-the-show-maker-faire_videogames Oooh I’m all sweaty.

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Using different MIDI event types with the WiiMote Theremin

December 9, 2009

I recently was asked if it were possible to output continuous controller data from the WiiMote Theremin device I created here This should be pretty simple as the Toub.Sound.Midi library supports CC data just like the Note On/Off. If you open up the source code in Visual Studio Express C# – you should be able [...]

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First IPhone post…

December 9, 2009

I just downloaded the IPhone WordPress application. So here is my first posting using a tiny tiny keyboard with no tactile feedback at all. And here is the view from the office window…

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