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Pure Data Facelift

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Nov 072007
 

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All I’m waiting for to begin work on my monome, are 64 red LEDs and so I’m thinking ahead about programming languages. I don’t speak a programming language, but I may be looking to get started soon to make music. Everyone seems to love the power of object oriented programming in MAX/MSP, but it’s expensive at $495.

New York’s own Peter Kirn may have the answer for me. He’s got an awesome site, Create Digital Music, where he reports on the best stuff going on in the diy electronic music world. He reports that Pure Data (PD) has had a bit of a facelift and is easier to work with.

Hans-Christoph Steiner has been working for a long time on “Pd-extended”, adding a lot of that polish and documentation, and making the whole thing easier to install. There’s a major new, finished release that came out last week. “Easy” might not be the appropriate word — but “easier”, combined with “powerful” and “free”, might get your attention.

I’ll keep you up to date as I start work on my little monome device and start seeking help to make it actually do something! – Link

Recycle-a-robot

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Nov 062007
 

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Wired has a great post about Ann Smith, an artist who, as wired says; ‘transforms electronics and appliances destined for the dump into nifty gadgety animals’. Check out the post to see some of the pieces as stop motion animation. It doesn’t look like these are actual working, moving bots, but I’m sure with a little technical prowess, they could be. Either way they are very creative.

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Nov 032007
 

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Above is an image from the ‘Diploma Project’ by André Huber and Roland Broennimann. They are students at the University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland and Academy of Art and Design. They are working on a project called natebu (or at least that’s the name of the blog). It’s an idea that Bre and I have talked about before, and is pretty impressive to see in action. From what I can tell there are 3 LEDs for each ‘pixel’ that sense when there is something blocking the light and then activates the LEDs. If you watch this video you can see it in action. I couldn’t find any links to the code but they did post the schematic and pcb (pictured below), which although not too complicated, looks pretty time consuming to wire up.

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