RasPi – Wireless, Synchronized Video Playback

As part of my work for Blackstone Edge Studios, I have helped put together several short films to accompany concert performances. I’ve cobbled together a fairly simple video distribution system that feeds one video signal (VGA from a laptop) to four 42″ LCD HDTV monitors, one HD video projector, and seven small (6″ or so) […]

Potentially Musical Devices

{in progress} Many of the projects I’d like to try center around the possibility of wireless synchronization among several machines, ultimately to a musical beat. One of my first Arduino ambitions was a visual, midi-clocked metronome, which I eventually decided to base on midi-clock coming from a laptop running a sequencer (Ableton Live.) Though I […]

Setting up again…

  This is taking some time. It’s hard to believe that it has been over a year and a half since Jess and I purchased the house. We have done a lot so far, but there are huge projects looming on the horizon. The place is a bit of a fixer. Our kitchen is in […]

Raspberry Pi

Reading Ebon Uptons’ forward to the Raspberry Pi User Guide I couldn’t help but feel we are entering a new, exciting time in the evolution of technology. This tiny computer brings affordable, easily programmable Physical Computing to the masses, changing the equation for anyone interested in learning about how computers work and how to make […]

I2C, LED Pixels – Arduino Update

I recently brought my Arduino development board out of storage. I last experimented with controlling electronic circuits months before our housing situation dramatically changed. Since the release of the Raspberry Pi (RasPi,) I’ve been inspired to research the DIY/maker scene again, and dreaming up several potential projects. Things have changed a lot in a couple […]