USB-C Upgrade – What Not to Do
When you add a USB-C jack to old gear, you have to use the right one, or this happens.
TRS MIDI Out Mod for the Yamaha PSS-A50
Can you believe they had pins on the board for this already?
SamplerBox: The Handy Sampler Synth
A USB MIDI host and sampler sound module for MIDI keyboards on the go.
Stock Charts with a Unique Regime Indicator
Regime Radar is my React web server and live database of stock market indicator information, with colorful charts based on the Regime. Regimes provide insight about what types of trading strategies are most valid based on the intentions of the parties that seem to be in control of the market at that time.
LED Matrix GIF Player
It looks at a config file on the SD card to determine the LED orientation of each panel, the arrangement of panels, and the type of LEDs. Then, it plays GIF files from the SD card as animations on the LED matrix. It also allows bluetooth control. This was used to video-map my Christmas tree.…
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SMS Alarm System
This alarm system is able to send SMS messages. Two sets of firmware communicate between a low power and a high power brain so that radio processes go to sleep when a dumber brain is just listening for a breakbeam or alarm sensor.
Ultrasonic Sound Trigger
Art installation ultrasonic MIDI triggers, to launch sounds when people walk into a specific spots. For Lumen and Forge 2023. #midi #mixedmedia #makersgonnamake #art #museum
Backlit Keys, Distance Sensor, Banks of Extra Knobs
I modified this custom Akai APC Key 25 midi keyboard, adding a distance sensor (similar to a Roland D-beam) and 7 additional knobs, assignable to 3 banks. Midi-activated backlit RGB keys match a strip in the near-side bottom edge, to hang over a rack and shine on gear below. The missing pitch bend control is…
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