#1049

Brace yourselves for @TheTechnobear 's cheap remake of norns, it’s called technorns, only costs 100€, is entirely made of plastic and cardboard, with the help of unpaid ingeneers, and it will bring creative coding to the masses who have been begging for it for so many years ! Available in 2018 or 2022 maybe, we’ll see about that once we’re sure we can scale and have enough pre-orders to get the parts as cheap as possible, but stay tuned on our forum to give us ideas we can exploit for money !

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#1050

Design guidelines are good things to have, if only to help designers be aware of what rules they are breaking when they seek to solve specific problems. Innovation is a fluid combination of drawing both inside and outside lines, and not drawing at all. I’d follow a thread on that topic. There might already be one too.

Norns is always approaching.

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The UX of grid-based applications
#1051

NHD-2.7-12864WDW3-M1 it’s freakin expensive

edit: but totally worth it.

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#1052

Wow, you’re not kidding - ~$40/unit! Hope you got a nice volume deal.

But it sure does look purdy.

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#1053

Can we got the whole parts list? :smirk:

#1054

shows picture.

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#1055

please explain

:eyes: :brain: :exploding_head:

i thought it was photoshopped at first

#1056

No photoshop here. It’s just a basic image viewer i wrote to check the display capabilities. Turns out that the display can do much more than text :slight_smile: The pic is a screenshot from an old DOS game called Electro Man, which is now freeware (CC-BY-SA).

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#1057

Holy cow. That’s wild

#1058

Love it. As excited to see what people do with the screen as with the sc part of norns.

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#1059

please can we play games on norns? Does it support Xbox controllers? :smiley:

For everybody else, who is interested in discussing UI/UX related matters (@andrew @glia @jasonw22) , please do so here:

and also

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#1060

I’m guessing yes but would it be possible to have norns act as a dual custom audio processor?
So having like 2 completelly different sound processing algorithms running at the same time, one processes the audio going in input 1 and outputs it off output 1, the other proesses the audio going in input 2 and outputs out output 2.

edit: and having some sort of grid page based control over both.

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#1061

All good now, I understand its potential now, Im quite excited for this.

#1062

I don’t know why that shouldn’t be possible.

:slightly_smiling_face:

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#1063

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not quite xbox, but close!

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#1064

20 characters of Indeed!

#1065

I can’t believe the first video game example on a wee Linux box wasn’t Doom. :wink:

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#1066
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#1067

So what’s the DSP-alike power this thing has? Depending on the ARM SoC used they do come with some dsp capabilities. From what I understand, there will be no way to custom target these possibilities using super collider. This looks super interesting to me… just curious if it could replace my aleph craving for simpler/lighter dsp tasks.

#1068

From the specs it says it works with HID stuff, so an Xbox 360 controller should work just fine. Late last year I bought an Xbox One controller, the most recent of which work on Macs without needing a wireless dongle, and it’s pretty nice. Slightly different feel and layout than my trusty 360 controller (what I built Cut Glove around), but the fact that it’s wireless natively is quite attractive.

One of the thing I’m wondering is if that will work with the norns, since I think it’s just HID-over-wifi, as it works sans driver. Having to plug in a 360 controller isn’t the end of the world though.

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