So, I like computers, music, and I'm not afraid of getting my hands dirty with software/hardware (especially a mix of both). Thus, these ideas express my thinking and eagerness of really doing something myself, just for the kicks. As technological progress has been keeping its pace, we're not stuck with HAM Radio stuff. Moore's law is a blessing in the 21st century DIY movement too. Smaller hardware + better software = faster prototyping. Welcome to the new old school DIY.
Enough talk. Here's what I've been up to as of now (July 18th 2009):
- Software-based sound generation machines:
- an interactive tweet (as in bird chirp) generator, a beep pattern creator (kind of a drum machine, but with beeps), and a pretty configurable noisebox, all implemented in Processing;
- an iPhone accelerometer-based theremin.
- An arduino Mega is already waiting for some junk to be plugged, in order to transform the sound generation machines into something more physical.
- Just got a SheevaPlug to hack some media server things, as well as some home automation stuff.
- Hacking a bit with javascript something that could remotely resemble with Demoscene things.
- experimenting with multi-touch + processing.js (yes, javascript) interactive art on the iPhone.
Since I'm lazy, none of these projects have been made publicly available, yet. Ping me if you feel like contributing to some (or all) of these ideas, even if they stay at the vaporware level :)
Stay tuned, 'cause I'll be posting about these projects (whenever I feel like blogging). And that's all for a 1:48am Saturday rant.
P.S. sorry for not posting for so long, but you can keep the pace of my musings on my twitter account
