Before I emailed Pablo Gian Villamil and he sent me on a link to his class notes (yay!) for Generating polyphonic sound with Arduino I tried to work out his circuitry from his various blog posts and component listings…
Really nice example of use of a contemporary praxinoscope…
Moray McLaren – We Got Time
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9e38cuhnaU&feature=related
Moray McLaren – We Got Time – Behind the Scenes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrBnH6LIGtA&feature=related
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!
(This entry written for Martyn Ware… but could be useful to others…)
The monome.org site has lots of useful information, tutorials, apps and patches… but is, typically of open source communities (though better than most), messy and a bit difficult to find your way round if you’re new to it. The best place to start is the new monome docs and in particular the setup section…
To get the monome up and running you’ll need the following essential (E) and recommended (R) drivers & software:
This post is partly a response to Ant’s most recent email to me:
“I’m feeling slightly up a blind alley with the Monome at the moment. It’s a wonderful piece of hardware, it’s beautiful, fast, flexible etc but utterly meaningless at the moment. I can’t think of an interesting way to use it.”
I wanted to update my profile at monome.org with a photo and some info – now that I’m starting to post regularly. I was thinking about suitable 1 bit 8×8 pixel graphics – and thought of Space Invaders (obviously)… and tracked down (with surprising difficulty) a set of characters in this Invader from Space font. It turns out most of them aren’t actually 8×8 pixels 🙁 – but there are a few that are and I’ve chosen my favourite 😉
We haven’t had a chance to meet and really talk in the past few weeks – since getting the devices in fact – so I thought that a bit of critical reflection might help Ant understand my perspectives – and let me highlight some illustrative examples – and that might help him… possibly…
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
