February 2010

Bill’s laser harp

February 21, 2010

Bill Fredette just sent me this link to his successful laser harp build… Laser Harps are notoriously difficult to film – so top marks to Bill for completing the build and getting some good quality footage.

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PAIA 9700s Tuning “Visualizer”

February 16, 2010

The PAIA 9700s is a compact analog modular music synthesizer, available as a kit. It took me about 3 weeks to get everything constructed and installed in the case. After building the next task is to set the scale trimmers on both voltage controlled oscillators so that they stay in tune over the largest range [...]

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Serial Port MIDI Relay

February 15, 2010

When it comes to creating MIDI controllers the Arduino is tough to beat. There’s a great development community out there and creating MIDI data is a breeze. What’s not so cool is that it’s very very difficult to send MIDI data over the standard USB serial port that is used to communicate with the Arduino. [...]

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My personal Gyroball record

February 5, 2010

Nowhere near the 16,000 RPM+ that this guy gets, but my own personal blister-inducing record.

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Neat Java based circuit simulator, and Fritzing

February 5, 2010

There are a few circuit simulation packages out there – and most of them are rather expensive. A colleague at work recently gave me a link to this cool Java based simulator written by Paul Falstad: http://www.falstad.com/circuit/ (Obviously you will need the Java plugin to run it) What really sets this one apart is that [...]

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Dalek at the Scout’s robot night

February 4, 2010

I took the Dalek along to a local cub scouts meeting. They were having a Robot night, and my buddy Lloyd asked me if I’d be able to get the Dalek transported. I just wish I’d had another operator – or at least someone to run the camera while I controlled the Dalek. Pushing a [...]

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