For my thesis project I worked on building devices called Cuttlefish. They are little wireless, battery powered LED controllers and hopefully just the beginning of a much bigger project. I’ll update the page as I make progress on the deveopment.

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build a PIC based USB keyboard emulator I got a PIC18f14k50 sample from Microchip a bit ago and wanted to make an easy control device prototype with it (similar to the i-PAC boards from Ultimarc, but with a much lesser feature set). Today ended up being just tons of soldering… I’d hoped to get the [...]

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On the Brooklyn side we decided to have our own play-along game with the 4-in-4 crew (will link when there’s somewhere to link to). But for numerous reasons, our version is much less ambitious. Sonaar and Rob came over and mostly we hung out, snacked, drank coffee and orange juice and watched a few videos [...]

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Working on my NIME project, I needed some good MIDIness for controlling pneumatics, so I re-worked some old MIDI code to work on Arduino. Look here for the library and a bit of information. Note that most people will just want to send MIDI messages from the Arduino TO a PC or a MIDI device; [...]

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Look here for more info… This is modeled after the XBeeReader Processing API by Rob Faludi & Daniel Shiffman (link). It’s poorly documented, things will change, and it needs work. I’d love to get feedback / bug reports/ etc though (time to work on it will likely be limited for a bit though, since I’m [...]

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