I was thinking about this last night after reading through the monome ecosystem thread.
I’m wondering if it’d be possible to make a, say, 3 in -> 3 out (or whatever I/O count makes sense) USB power/switch that is addressable by i2c.
My thoughts are that It’d be very cool if you could trigger a change of grid connection from say, a Teletype to an Ansible with a trigger to Teletype. I think this could possibly be an interesting way of controlling your ecosystem in a very Monome way.
The cool thing about the Monome interface controllers are that they are completely “static”, in the sense that there’s not mechanical on/off switches (grid buttons don’t “depress”), or potentiometers that have mechanically-defined position (arc has endless encoders). Which lends itself to seamless switch between different “apps” running on different modules requiring the various interfaces (none of the “you have to move the knob to where it was to make it start changing things” UX weirdness)
In practice, I’m thinking it’d be cool if you could control LFOs with cycles, then cause a trigger to switch the arc to controlling some other thing (maybe some future arc + teletype turtle app :)?), then trigger again to switch back to cycles once you’ve done whatever you need to do with the other app.
