Laser Sound

This project is based on the Make Controller I picked up at Maker Faire. It plays tones controlled by the interruption of laser beams. The laser beams are from Laser Levels, and the MacBook software is implemented in the Processing environment.

Details here.

Maker Faire 2008

A bit more Burning Man,



a bit more Love Parade,



a bit more Disney.



The Theremin by the Steampunk section was cool.

Gadgets from Maker Faire

I picked up some useful gadgets at Maker Faire today.

One is a bendable tripod called a Gorillapod. I've attached it to my webcam. This should be useful for remote board-gaming.



Another gadget is the Make Controller Kit. It is actually a complete board (no soldering required).



It attaches via USB or Ethernet to a PC and provides 8 analog inputs, 8 digital outputs, and 4 servo controllers. It can be controlled by the PC with simple commands embeddable in most programming languages. This is similar to the Ditch-Day Stack Controller I built years ago in college. The Make Controller's processor (55 MHz ARM RISC) can also be programmed directly in C using the GNU GCC toolchain. The embedded Real-time OS FreeRTOS and web server (!) also look interesting.