diy – kaotec

July 31, 2009August 1, 2009

Pure data controls my APC with pduino

Thanks to some nice open source projects, my Atari Punk Console is sequencable through pure data. From input to sound:

Pure Data is running
s-seq part of s-abstractions, by Chris McCormick
combined with hans‘s pduino and firmata
firmata running on the arduino
and the PWMs on the arduino changing voltages on the APC

the result, just testing by the way, in the youtube vid… enjoy (or not)

July 23, 2009February 13, 2013

Arduino controlled APC

I pimped an ordinary Atari Punk Console with some extra LEDs , a light sensitive resistor and … an arduino. It’s still a build in progress, I will have some pics up soon, but it WORKS.

I had some basic arduino sketch running, and I was fiddling with the pins on the 556 when suddenly a sound occurred. I was reproducible and so the synth was born.
I’m now working on the software which will either firmata/pduino or midi if I get the midi-in working. A third option is the netshield and puchabe.

I’ll keep you posted…

July 5, 2009

touchpad controller

I excavated a touchpad from an old laptop. I’m almost ready for my first reverse engineering project. Altough a quick google search allready returned me a possible similar attempt, I hope the electric gods ar a bit cooporative on this. This wil make a super nice and compact MIDI-controller.
It say’s “ALPS 94v-0” and “JCI-S1S” on the PCB and “1CAO17A” on the chipset. Zero results on google…

we’ll see , I hope I don’t blow it…

June 23, 2009July 6, 2009

axiome

Axiome is a mlr (monome style) pd patch. I’m still looking for a good beatslicer to built my own custom controller. This one is a candidate for sure. Provided I still don’t own a monome, I will have to hack it up so it becomes compatible with my yet-to-be-designed-budget-friendly-midi-and-osc-controller. Lucky it’s GPL’ed