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November 10, 2006
Tangible sequencer blocks from youtube -Update!
A big hello to any boing boing readers! Right. On with the show!
Here's something tasty and fun. It's an interactive step sequencer. That allows you to pick up and manipulate and re-order the steps as you go. Each "pad" has a trigger like normal, but it allows you to do all sorts of fun stuff with them.
Update: With the help of Peter from CDM we've been able to track down who is responsible for these. It's Jeffrey Bernstein of Princeton. They were his masters project in grad school. And excitingly, he's working on building a mass production version! There will be an article in the excellent Make in the February issue.
Jeffrey has the following to say about how they work: They each have an 8-bit microcontroller, a 2.4 GHz zigbee radio and an IR transmitter and receiver. There's also a GUI on the computer that lets you drag and drop sounds to the boxes.
Sounding very exciting, and when there's more information on these, you can be sure I'll be covering it!
The samples play in the order that the arrows point, and when a block receives the trigger from the previous block it plays the sound. And it's all wireless. It would be great to know more about this project and how it works. I'm assuming that it's some sort of simple trigger transmitted via bluetooth. Maybe the max/msp posse will be able to shed some light on this, as it looks right up their alley.
Beat Juggling - this is just fantastic. I would spend all day just doing this, possibly driving my better half nuts. In fact, given a table full of these, I would go absolutely nuts.
More (slightly less exciting) videos after the jump.
Posted by funnelbc at November 10, 2006 02:54 PM
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