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 […]

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 […]

Midi Metronome

Creating a midi metronome was one of the first projects I tried to tackle with the Arduino. Pictured above is a simple circuit running a sketch to light LEDsĀ  alingned a row, sequenced to visually emulate the Q-Logic Midi Metro used by Bjork and several other artists. The actual commercial product is expensive, hard to […]

Getting Started with Arduino

This is becoming a new obsession… I first saw these when I was doing research on the Perspective Aerial quad-copter. This little board is an open source microcontroller (with 14 digital input/outputs and 6 analog inputs) that is programmed via USB. Complete, assembled boards can be found on eBay for about $30. Just add a […]