Some of our email exchanges posted here for the record…

7 May – Anthony:

And Monomes….  I’m planning a Summer of fun.  Battleships, discome and the 3D-AudioScape interface on the agenda at the mo – hopefully in Processing or OpenFrameworks – are these still all live ideas?

15 May – Lewis:

Yes I’d like to move these forward too… 

3D-AudioScape interface seems the most solid in terms of agreed funding… and I’m still keen to develop an application schematic for phase 1 based on the blog.monomatic.net post as a starting point…

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Some of our email exchanges posted here for the record…

17 March – Anthony:

Finally got to your thread on the blog.  Here’s my thoughts:

Using the Monome to control sound on Martyn’s 3D-AudioScape should be technically fairly straight forward, as would the visualisation grid.  MIDI to OSC is no problem.  I don’t know much about DMX, but I think I did a student project a couple of years ago that used DMX…  or there are hardware solutions to convert between MIDI/DMX (e.g. http://www.lanbox.com/products/LCDataSheet.html – about GBP350 – no idea how good they are).  I’ll have a think…

I’m interested in that hack that allows you to control per LED brightness – that would rock; have you got it to work? It might make my camera thing make sense for a start.  I’ll fiddle with the accelerometer thing too – it wasn’t incorporated into the download when I first installed the Monome, so I haven’t used it yet

As for discome – getting the Monome to trigger discrete animations onscreen is fine, but doing any kind of animation on the Monome itself is doable but won’t look any good – as you found out yourself, 8×8 is very small to make meaningful graphics…

20 March – Anthony:

this is interesting :  http://monolake.de/installations/cyclone.html

i’m warming to the 3D sound interface idea

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Trial using the accelerometer in a Monome 64 (http://www.monome.org) to create a new interface for the old mobile phone game Snake. Works out to be very tactile, intuitive, responsive and quite fun.

Tilty Snake from squidie on Vimeo.

My 9 year old son got so involved he nearly threw the thing across the floor in frustration when the snake finally bit it.

Update (17th May):

After posting to the monome.org community forum this video was featured on the main News section and has since received over 8,250 views… wow!

old vid patches: http://forum.monome.org/topic/1179#new

these are the two old 1bit video patches. they need jitter, and my auth
ran out, so i haven't tested them. i updated the osc objects to 4.6.

Stupid sprite generator for the 40h:
http://post.monome.org/comments.php?DiscussionID=665&page=1#Item_0

Just put my 40h kit in a box, and am starting to get a grasp on how to talk
to it, so to test things out i whipped up an incredibly stupid sprite generator.
Might be worth a few laughs, probably not more.

Per led intensity, video [modified firmware]:
http://post.monome.org/comments.php?DiscussionID=913&page=1#Item_23

I wanted per led intensity, so I hacked a bit in the firmware and voilà.
I can now adjust the intensity from 0 to 15 on each diode.

aacd : Atari ASCII Character Display:
http://post.monome.org/comments.php?DiscussionID=141&page=1#Item_0

...silly little app that I wrote to display the old Atari ASCII variant
character set

Disco dancefloor application:
http://post.monome.org/comments.php?DiscussionID=312&page=1#Item_0

Some of you might have seen the Daft Punk LED table made by Habitat.
It has a music input that makes the table look like a old school dancefloor.
look here http://youtube.com/watch?v=zCA79Du-WqY