A bit of Jitter programming to end the night. In my performance on Monday I’ll be using a second computer to drive a projector that will be pointing at the big screen behind me, with a close-up video feed of my hands on the Maxome so that people can actually see what I’m doing, but plain video seemed too boring, so I spiced it up a little. I’m contemplating sending OSC messages to that computer so that I could sync the effects etc. up to the music, but we’ll see about that.
Replaced that unflashed ATmega32 and now the whole grid works. Conway’s Game of Life is mesmerizing.
Arduinome meets Maxome. A 64 and a 128, both Sparkfun buttoned, one large, and one behemoth. Thanks to MiddleMax, the intermediary application I created in Max MSP, you can use what is essentially three 64-buttoned Monomes with many different applications at once, using 2 of the Maxome’s dials to pan vertically and horizontally around a single large page of applications. You could even use all three grids with a single application. Monome 192, anybody?
Whilst building the Monome half of the Maxome, I ran into a problem that it seems many other people also have, so here’s a tip which would have helped me out and I hope it can help some other builders out too;
If you have built a Monome/Arduinome type device and you need to serialize your FTDI chip so that it shows up in MonomeSerial/ArduinomeSerial yet you have a Macintosh personal computer running Mac OS X and are therefore unable to run Mprog or FTprog, you can use Pirate Rename.
There’s a tutorial here: Dangerous Prototypes - Pirate Rename
And the program is available to download here: Google Code - Pirate Rename
