#884

Does the norns come with a wifi adaptor? Or is wifi built-in the PCB/Compute module?

#885

It’s a little usb plug in:

I’ve used something similar with earlier raspberry pi’s - they’re not very big at all.

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#887

Oh man, did someone say Count to 5? I am a big fan of mine - though still trying to wrap my head around it. Using it in combo with synths, red panda particle and a reverb. Would love to see what you guys do with it.

back on-topic: I’m out for the 1st and 2nd rounds, but definitely curious to see what the early adopters produce with norns!

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#888

all birds are my wife.

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#889

I’m curious what the battery life is like? Of course it would depend on what peripherals you have attached, and what programs you are running, but any rough figures from use so far?

#890

does anyone have any tips on or good places to start learning lua in addition to the lua.org site (which seems really great and comprehensive already) ? got some nice and weird ideas for scripts that i would love to be able to birth into norns eventually.

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#891

This link was posted earlier in the thread… I found it really helpful (though I am more of a ‘just give me the syntax and let me figure it out already’ coder)…

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#892

hey i just emulated the c25 for linux organelle. https://www.dropbox.com/s/4h7d1r7xf1smz6l/C25v2.zip?dl=0

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#893

Programming in Lua (4th ed) is good if you like your learning in book form.

There are game engines that use Lua which raises the possibility of exploring visual art generation at the same time as learning in advance of Norns.

You could also look for opportunities to cross-pollinate ideas at:

#894

So excited for BC, Monome, KC, and all the users here. So inspiring. Wish I was at a level that would warrant, or allow, my diving on one of these.

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#895

just realized that with some hacking you could probably use norns to read this forum using a terminal web browser like lynx :artificial_satellite:

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#896

Thanks for the links about Lua everyone. I’m also a newbie to programming (never done anything similar to it until Teletype). I’m thinking I might pick that book up- very excited to transfer some of my ideas to norns.

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#897

oh yeah, totally! :smile: Wouldn’t really be a ‘hack’ - I think you’d just have to run ‘sudo apt-get install lynx’ in the terminal. Your norns would have to be connected via wifi to your router.

#898

this!!! this will be the only way i read the forum from now on, once it works…

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#899

the odd thing about this will be that you’ll be using another computer to log in to your norns via ssh, then from norns using the lynx browser, ha

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#900

Discourse is read-only in Lynx, I believe. :-/

#901

i should probably just get a forum text scroller for my grid already… first row, first button is the trade category, etc. and then lower rows and columns jump to last comment and so on… hmmm

could have the buttons populated with a matrix of pre-made responses too, maybe even randomly. but this is off topic for this thread, will have to fully flesh out this genius idea before forking to a new thread :wink:

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#902

that will be incredibly easy i think.

2250 mah. relaxed cpu around 350ma. heavy cpu goes up to 800. grid adds about 150 (reasonable number of LEDs lit). wifi nub 80-120ma. most midi things i tried were negligible current, less than 100ma. so you could be maxing it out and get under 2 hours, or using it as a stompbox only and get up to 5 probably?

i’m hoping to have some tutorials out around ship time. lua is really straightforward. many of the tutorials dive pretty quickly into more difficult territory that isn’t completely required. so i’d try not to get discouraged when you see a bunch of things that seem utterly unnecessary in existing tutorials. my goal will be (like teletype) to show what you need to know in order to do musically interesting things with minimal code.

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#903

I’m really excited for this. This is the first time I’ve considered taking things beyond what the community gives to me. Do you think the tutorials will assume any coding knowledge because I have zero.

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#904

yeah the assumption is zero code knowledge, like teletype did. maybe the TT tutorials are even a good start to “thinking about code” (i may be wrong— might be confusing because the syntax is different? what do people think?)

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