do it yourself midi-controllers and how to implement them in your setup
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A slideshow i've created for a workshop at the todaysart festival in the Hague in 2014.It covers the title basically, and should point out the direction of the workshop. You get an idea of what i'm doing with hid-devices and how it works.TRANSCRIPT
D.o I.t Y.ourself midi controllersAnd how to implement them in your setup.
H.I.D Human Input Device
Trackballs, graphic tablets, trackpads etc. etc.basically, anything that communicates with your computer
Gaming keyboards
Gaming controllers
Use of factory-ready circuitboards, microcontrollers
teensy board
arduino
I-PAC
Xin-Mo
Software that can convert standard h.i.d. messages into midi-events.
Junxion
Bomes
reverse engineering your aqquired gear to work for you
- using the device "as it is"- using the device circuitboard and replace components with
other components at your own taste.- "integrate" a controller into a existing design.- use akward objects to house your ideas
the only limitation is your imagination...
How to obtain Source material?
- flea-markets- secondhand shops- marktplaats (dutch online buying/selling website)- sometimes even in trashcans and containers.- during kings night and kings day i have a complete schedule.
29 april i visit Utrecht but it gets to crowded fast with (drunk) people that seem to be wandering without a purpose. On 30 april i wake up as early as possible to get to the stuff i want before someone else does. First in my hometown, then to a bigger city. If you're wondering why you never find anything, now you know….
finding the right components
pushbuttons potentiometers knobs
piezo disk
some examples of my work
teensy board, programmed within a Arduino enveronment. 8 banks of 8 rotary encoders
2 joysticks
Xin-mo gaming pcb
Xin-mo gaming pcb, programmed with Junxion. The buttongrid corresponds with Live's drumrackgrid, the 2 tiny pushbuttons on the side act as "shift" buttons to give a total of 4 x 12 buttons
trust predator pro based controllers
teensy based fingerdrumming
joystick based, notice the redlight detail...
This was a M-audio 49 keys with some malfunctioning keys
i cutted it trough half, including the pcb (….) and glued and soldered the parts and traces back together. Then, i implanted a wireless joystick and attached pushbuttons and pots to that circuitboard… A wireless midi-keyboard was born…..
Keyboard-mapping (how to make a €2,- midi controller)
Housings for your project