A weird gear addition, but just picked up a bunch of refurbished Basslets to use as the hub for a haptic feedback-based update/improvement to my (older) dfscore system.
I spent ages looking for a good wireless haptic feedback system that could multicast and kept coming up short. While I was in Berlin a few months ago I managed to try one of these out and really dug it. Quite powerful and really fast response time (ala ‘taptic engine’ type speed). ‘Only’ goes up to 250Hz, but that’s plenty of room to create gestures with.
I did some simple testing with Max and found that due to its aggressive lowpass filtering, it could literally just be a square wave driving it, so my plan is to make a simple/DIY polyphonic synth (1-bit music style) out of a Teensy which I’ll set up such that I send it MIDI notes on diff channels (or whatever) and that will output 4 discrete audio channels, one for each Basslet. I’ll then house all of that in a small 3D printed enclosure with a single USB cable.
(as an aside, I’ve not messed with much synth stuff on Teensy, so open to suggestions on any systems/code I should look at for that. since audio quality doesn’t matter, I assumed that would be possible to do just using a Teensy without needing a separate DAC, but not sure)
