For fun and anything that doesn't exists.
For fun and anything that doesn't exists.
Posted Dec 22, 2007 9:48 UTC (Sat) by amartoq (guest, #1712)In reply to: What are sensor networks good for? by kbob
Parent article: Hardware Fun with the Arduino board
I am in the process of a home-made MIDI pedal for controlling in a different way my PODXTLive [1] device and a "teleprompter" software that jumps the lyrics in my notebook screen. The lyrics software [3] is being used for practice and even live (at least once), because all members of my band have little time to memorize lyrics and even the chords of the songs! It allow us to play any song we got in the computer (and the public ask to play) even if we never played it before... So, the MIDI pedal will make all this song/lyrics/effects transitions very easy... Of course, I could buy a real MIDI controller like the behringer fcb1010 [2]; but is much more fun to do it yourself, besides that there is no existing software that do what I'm doing and pretending to do in the near future: controlling current song, lyrics, channel POD setup and even some chopters and background sound tracks we use on some songs. I'm using PIC18F4550 from Microchip, those are not linux-friendly like the AVR, but something is available[4]. [1] http://line6.com/podxtlive/ [2] http://www.behringer.com/FCB1010/ [3] No link yet, I'll release the software once I get version 0.3 ready (Version 0.1 was a 1 hour python programming session that just displayed lyrics, Version 0.2 was a 1 week python programming that supported a list of songs and change to prev/next) [4] http://www.yty.net/pic/enindex.html