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Wind Sensors In Escape Rooms
We don’t always get to hear about what our customers create with our products, so when they reach out to us we are always giddy to see what they cook up. Key to Escape, an Escape Room based in North Carolina, put our Wind Sensor Rev. C’s in some prop LED candles and made them […]
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Terry Riley’s In C for Arduino with the Fluxamasynth
I’m a fan of experimental composer Terry Riley (try some of his organ work like Shri Camel to get started), so it seemed natural to try to adapt his 1964 algorithmic composition “In C” for the Arduino with our Fluxamasynth Shield.
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Getting Started with the Reverbalizer
The Reverbalizer is a relatively simple hackable effects pedal based on the FV-1 multieffects chip by Spin Semiconductor. More information is available on the product page; this is a quick guide to getting up and running with the Reverbalizer.
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Soundboxen #5: Fluxamasynth-based musical appliance
Another standalone Fluxamasynth-based musical appliance: Soundboxen #5 is inspired by Brian Eno’s Music for Airports. Six loops play back slightly out of sync; the loop length is controlled by the listener with six potentiometers. Mounted in a Bakelite enclosure with laser cut veneers. Read more for a short video and the Arduino code.
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Soundboxen #4: Fluxamasynth Radio Station in a Box
Soundboxen are songs wrapped up in objects, originally inspired by Stockhausen’s Zodiac music boxes. Some are simple music boxes; #1 was an implementation of Riley’s In C (w/tempo knob). Others are instruments constrained to a certain song. #3 is a jukebox of bytebeat; #4 is an algorithmic radio station in a box. This is a […]
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Calibrating The Rev. P Wind Sensor From A New Regression
I reprocessed some old data to add some software temperature compensation for the Rev. P wind sensor. The sensor itself has hardware temperature calibration built in, but the hardware compensation isn’t perfect. You can see by these trend lines in this ADCunit vs static pressure graph that the curves diverge slightly at the upper end […]
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New Product: The Reverbalizer Multi-effects Module
The Reverbalizer is a hackable electronic multi-effects module for mobile and microcontroller applications. It is hackable in two ways. First, you can adapt it for use in a microcontroller project. Second, you can download or create additional DSP effects and install it on an EEPROM cartridge using an Arduino-based program we developed. It comes with […]
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33 Amp 12 Volt Power Supplies
These are 12 volt, 33 amp switching power supplies suitable for a range of high current uses. We used them for a public art installation that we were hired to engineer and install and they performed admirably for 3 months. We powered more than 200 feet of WS2812 LED strips with a couple of these […]
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New Products: A New Fluxamasynth, the Noisemusick Kit, and some art
We have some new products to announce at Modern Device; the most exciting is the new version 3 of the Fluxamasynth Shield, a 64 voice polyphonic synthesizer for Arduino. We updated the synth to the new SAM2695 chip, much better filters, and a new microphone input. Check it out in the shop.
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New Product: BUB III
Future Technology Devices International makes many different TTL Serial to USB chips. One model, the FT232R, is used in boards like the The AdaFruit FTDI friend, SparkFun FTDI Basic, Modern Device BUB I and Modern Device BUB II. It’s not the cheapest, smallest, or most functional FTDI chip– just the most popular. Presenting the BUB […]