* please note this is in progress – when this initial line disappears, this blog entry is complete!
This entire week has been dedicated to finding the perfect solution for Simon and his drum-lights, as well as making them ‘play’-proof! I inadvertently provided Sie with an opportunity to end his life – personal jokes aside, I thought it was rather stupid of me not to insulate one side of the piezo[electric] from the other…. But I just wonder if that’s where his electric performance on Wednesday came from?!?
When I bought my Dremel I also bought the latest Arduino, because I always wanted to mess around in micro controllers and turn bits of computers into music making! Sorry Bruce, but I couldn’t think of an apt verb to use, so I left it out…
I have always been fascinated with electronics and even though I don’t know any better, I till enjoy taking things apart to ‘see’ how they work mechanically, and then salvage any odd useful ‘crap’ [junk?] to find a use later. This er, later, just happens to be this week! I have wired up a few stepper motors from CD-roms and attempted to figure things out for myself, but it has taken far too long, so now I have been searching for how to do things, and then figure out what the code does from there.
I have found RIAA pre-amps and triggers for a MIDI interface, multiple copies of ONE video and several arduino HOWTOs. I have yet to crash my browser, but I have had more that one HUNDRED tabs open when I have been searching and just somer clicking! Now I know I have a HISTORY in my browser, but that makes things harder than just dumping links below…
Arduino
in no apparent order....
http://www.beat707.com/w/
http://dev.squarecows.com/2011/02/10/make-it-last-build-series-3-prototyping-the-stepper-driver/
http://www.mo-seph.com/node/246
http://arduino-projects-here.blogspot.com/2010/06/arduino-music-player.html
http://www.cultdeadcow.com/cowfeed/
thanks for all the fish: http://wn.com/The_How_To_of_Stepper_Motor_Music__Part_1_Note_Frequencies_and_Accuracy
http://hackaday.com
http://www.musheen.com/page/4
http://retrointerfacing.com/?cat=4&paged=3
http://www.circuitsathome.com/tag/diy
http://www.craigaalseth.com/rnews/index.php?more=32
smaller than google? http://www.amazon.ca/Arduino-Cookbook-Michael-Margolis/dp/toc/0596802471
http://arduino.cc/playground/Main/GeneralCodeLibrary
http://www.bluedust.dontexist.com/armstrong/
http://www.nongnu.org/avr-libc/user-manual/FAQ.html#faq_rom_array
http://www.arduino.cc/playground/Projects/ArduinoUsers
http://www.studiobricolage.org/arduino-1
http://www.windmeadow.com/node/55
http://www.instructables.com/id/Arduino-Basics-Making-Sound/step2/Playing-A-Melody/
preeend
Simon
also in no real order!!
http://www.sonelec-musique.com/images2/electronique_detecteur_impulsion_meca_001.gif
http://www.hobbyprojects.com/L/Lamp_Light_Control_Circuits.html
http://icc.skku.ac.kr/~won/electro/lights.html#soundlight
http://www.redcircuits.com/Page131.htm
http://www.electronicspoint.com/electronic-basics-f3.html
http://www3.telus.net/chemelec/Projects/Color-Organ/Color-Organ-2.png
http://www.audioheritage.org/vbulletin/showthread.php?22451-Color-Organ-Schematic
http://www.angelfire.com/journal2/owl_droppings/index/ColorOrgan.gif
debug: http://www.horrorseek.com/home/halloween/wolfstone/ColorOrgans/clofix_DebuggingColorOrgans.html
http://www.google.com/search?q=color+organ+schematic&hl=en&prmd=ivns&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=bZK4TYrGE4iaOqui7Y8P&ved=0CD0QsAQ&biw=1280&bih=708
http://www.siddiq.com.np/circuits/musictolight.php
pin: http://www.paia.com/ProdArticles/drumsens.htm
http://www.satsleuth.com/schematics.htm
moo: http://www.photonlexicon.com/forums/showthread.php/9059-Using-a-Piezo-element-to-control-Lasers
preeend
Sime was better than Homon
http://www.zen22142.zen.co.uk/Circuits/Audio/vinyl.htm http://sound.westhost.com/project25.htm http://www.schematics.ca/ kk
More coming soon!!