[dorkbotpdx-blabber] XP: huge list of computer interface controllers.

[Jason Plumb]

Here's an interesting discussion on "alternate controllers" on the 
pd-list that I thought would be quite useful to peeps on the list doing 
computer-interface stuff.

The thread starts here:
http://lists.puredata.info/pipermail/pd-list/2008-03/060538.html
a list was given here:
http://lists.puredata.info/pipermail/pd-list/2008-03/060583.html

In addition to the ubiquitous arduino variants, there's a nice list of 
other DIY "alternate" controllers below.

-jason

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Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 16:15:58 +0100
From: Jean-No?l Montagn?
Subject: Re: [PD] Alternate Controllers
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Don't forget one of the cheapest interface, the USB Bit Whacker
DIY, http://wiki.dataflow.ws/Interaction/Interfaces/UBW
official web http://greta.dhs.org/UBW/index.html
and sold 19 $ at sparkfun = 12 euros....


and the GNUSB http://gnusb.sourceforge.net/hardware/

the USBDUX http://www.linux-usb-daq.co.uk/

the ethernut http://www.ethernut.de/en/index.html

the DLP IO
http://apple.clickandbuild.com/cnb/shop/ftdichip?op=catalogue-products-null&prodCategoryID=65&title=DLP-IO8-G

the ispsonlab and co http://www.koncon.nl/ipsonlab/

the AID http://www.student.ocad.on.ca/~aid_dev/?q=

the artjoy http://artjoy.narod.ru/eng/index_eng.html

the semifluid projects http://www.semifluid.com/?p=21#more-21

the CUI http://www.create.ucsb.edu/~dano/CUI/

the gadgetboard http://www.lunkwill.org/gadgetboard/index.html

the nuxie1 http://www.nuxie1.com/guides/hackaday-competition-entry.html

the USBAD http://www.bmcm.de/us/pr-usb-ad.html

the midiscarff
http://tomscarff.tripod.com/anal2midi/analogue_inputs_to_midi_out.htm

the CV to midi http://www.fredrikolofsson.com/pages/hardware.html

the interface-z http://www.interface-z.com


and many others...  I have collected about a
hundred different low cost interfaces links for
interactive creation for the CRASlab activities,
and I would really like to have the power to
compare and document all this interfaces in terms
of cost per input/ouput, open hardware, latency,
protocols, DIY possibility and time, components
availibility in the world, recycling, power
cunsumption, etc, to complete
http://www.sensorwiki.org/index.php/Sensor_interfaces

but we have just money for making one USB Bit
Whacker, wich is one of the best !

JN

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