Encoders in Traktor and Ableton Python scripts.

I haven’t made any posts in a while so I got a couple of updates to share with you. Before I begin with some of my latest developments, I would like to refer you to two people that inspired me very much with their work and ideas, Alex (fuzzywobble) and Dave (60works), check their websites, … Read moreEncoders in Traktor and Ableton Python scripts.

[b]uttonPad meets Traktor

After Native Instruments announced its new controller, Traktor Kontrol F1 (a very colorful grid controller (with some faders and knobs), designed for the new Remix sample decks in Traktor 2.5) and also heavily inspired by a local DJ friend of mine, I decided to make a mapping for my button pad. The idea was to … Read more[b]uttonPad meets Traktor

[k]ontrolPad

Greetings once again, the last few days I gave more emphasis on working on the [k]ontrolPad and realized that my previous video did not demonstrate much the original concept I had in mind. So here is one more little demonstration video and some pictures of the development process. As I noted in my previous post, … Read more[k]ontrolPad

[b]uttonPad updates (Growing Family)

I have a lot of updates on the project since last time, tons of changes made mostly on driver application. I discovered that one of the main sources of latency was the serial port class of Processing, so I decided to re-implement the driver in C#, since Max/MSP and Ableton Live are not running under … Read more[b]uttonPad updates (Growing Family)

[b]utton Pad ACT III (driver wars)

This is the third part of my epic journey through the world of micro-controllers, MIDI/OSC controllers and all that stuff, and finally I can say that I see pleasing results. The pad now is enclosed in a plywood case which I designed and cut with some help from Eva. Though the individual boards can be … Read more[b]utton Pad ACT III (driver wars)

SP Button Pad Controller ACT II (adventures in the AVRland)

Since things didn’t work out as smoothly as I expected, no proper information on the net, nor anyone wrote a library for it; spent few sleepless nights trying to figure it out, things seemed doomed.. I decided to contact Spark Fun for more technical info. Within an hour they answered me, was really helpful but tried to … Read moreSP Button Pad Controller ACT II (adventures in the AVRland)

SP Button Pad Controller ACT I (latency is a biatch)

Next step for my project, were the Button Pad Controllers. There are two boards, SPI slave board, and a USB master board with USB API. Should be straight forward, or so I thought.. The USB board had two JST connectors, one for the USB cable and one for 5V Power. To make my life slightly … Read moreSP Button Pad Controller ACT I (latency is a biatch)

Weather Lamp

After obtaining my first Arduino prototyping board I had to put it to some good use. By brainstorming, reading and drawing inspiration from various sources I came up with the idea of creating a weather desk lamp. Basically the idea is that it reads weather data from RSS feeds like temperature, wind speed and precipitation and changes accordingly the color and … Read moreWeather Lamp

Debian on Kindle plus network tools

Finally after a lot of endless nights tingering around I decided to post about my newly acquired Amazon Kindle 3. Since I study  presentations and books from PDF files I thought a device like this would be really useful, and after reading somewhere that it could run Ubuntu Linux and even with X11 I knew exactly what I needed. … Read moreDebian on Kindle plus network tools