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[haebbmaster]

This is really cool. Never seen that before!

[AlessandroBonino]

Little setup in the corner of the living room

[simondemeule]

Last semester I created an interactive, multiplayer version of Terry Riley’s In C built with web stuff (Chrome’s WebAudio, and a node.js server running socket.io). Essentially it presents the player with the score and allows jumping from one phrase to another, to change octaves, and to syncopate rhythms, all while staying in sync with multiple other instances on a local network. Much inspired by @whitenoises’ «In C++», I named it «In Chrome».

This week, it was presented at my University’s end of year Design & Computation Arts show and won a prize, which was pretty exciting!

Also: the exhibition space was really cool.

If anyone wants to play around with it, it’s here on GitHub. Thanks to @chapelierfou for helping me figure out the transcription of the score!

[claasp]

[Jensu]

I’m sure you know these, but it reminded me alot of the stuff that Boldport does.

Ananas

[bmoren]

oh yes! Love boldport – great kits!

putting me in the same realm as their circuit design is quite complimentary, thank you

[Cementimental]

This looks really great! Is it hard to design ‘cordwood’ boards like that? Wondering if Kicad/eagle can deal with components with only one leg connected on each of the 2 boards or if you have to do some workaround?

[Cementimental]

Fixed up the old pitch-controllable + 1/4" out modded Gameboy

[bmoren]

I did a manual workaround where I used single leg components for pin headers and kept really good notes while laying out the board. One thing that can help is to lay the components on top of each other, and then move them all in one lot onto the second half of the construction.

There might be a kicad plugin for this, but I don’t know. I wasn’t doing anything super sophisticated with it, just resistors for the LEDs, so if you were going to do something more complex, then you might want to look into a better layout solution.

here’s some kicad screenshots for reference.

[Cementimental]

Thanks, interesting to see! We did some similar stuff with optional components on our Fort Processor, just put rows of pin header holes and noted on the schematic what could go there

[Jensu]

Maybe there should be a “PCB Art” topic.

[bmoren]

I’d be into that! Mods, should we fork this thread off, or start a new one?

[tehn]

great idea for anew thread!! I have a couple to contribute

[Jensu]

Here we go.

PCB Art: Artfully shaped cobber traces

This is the place for all related to art on pcb’s, intricately laid out circuits, or clever multidimensional board layouts.

[neauoire]

Great idea for the PCB thread, I might have a couple to add to that Shall we resume posting pictures of sound making machines?

Taken aboard our sailboat, this is the navigation table.
The synth is the Polivoks Mini.

[LLK]

Also thank you to the mods (I know they’re working hard!) for finally renaming this thread accordingly to what it (now for quite some time) trully is. Makes muuuch more sense and it feels way more appropriate. Just wanted to say it feels like a good choice.

[laborcamp]

Yes!
It’s funny how things go:
“Pictures of our sound-making machines” is the very first sentence of the original post of this thread. For a while I thought it worked as establishing the focus of the thread, but hundreds of thousands views later: who reads the first post!?
It totally makes sense to have that be the actual thread title.
Thank y’all for sharing so many wonderful images!
Clearly we love our sound-making machines!

[papernoise]

Also thank you to the mods (I know they’re working hard!) for finally renaming this thread accordingly to what it (now for quite some time) trully is.

Let me forward the thanks also to @laborcamp, since he came up with the new topic title.

[mola]

A christmas present inadvertently started off a new geeky obsession and now I’ve got a whole family going.

[emenel]

Doing some small updates to my console…