Dear All,
my name is Alex and I have been reading on this forum for several years, but this is my first time posting. So first of all I wanted to thank this wonderful community for all the great inspiration and friendliness that I have come across! I always find something interesting and/or thought provoking when reading through the different threads. Thank you very much!
I wanted to take this opportunity to also share something that I have been working on for the last several weeks. It is a custom made sensor board with five infrared sensors and two gyroscope sensors (arduinos) connecting to max msp for sound generation. The monome grid is giving control to some more functions of the patch and there is a generic midi controller just for controlling sound levels of individual parts. I am developing this as part of a programme I am doing in Manchester, UK (although technically at this moment it is more like distance learning because of university shutdown due to the ongoing pandemic).
This project is also one of my first foray into max msp and I really love this software. There is something very satisfying in building individual tools and instruments! (Although rather time consuming :)) )
Here is a video showing some improvisation with the system. No edits, sound is recorded directly out of max:
https://youtu.be/UymUHrdaRqc
I am still developing - but then, is there ever a point when a max patch is going to be finished?? I get the impression, that will never happen… 
Hope everyone is doing ok given the circumstances!
All best from Munich,
Alex