[dorkbotsyd-blabber] follow up links and stuff

[Aras Vaichas]

If anyone is interested, I have follow-up links to some of the stuff I spoke 
about at last night's Dorkbot.


----- MUSIC BOX -----
This is the guy whose electronic musical box I implemented. I'll highlight a 
few of his pages, but I recommend exploring his site:
http://elm-chan.org/works/mxb/report_e.html
http://elm-chan.org/works/vp/report.html
http://elm-chan.org/works/ltc/report.html


----- NIBBLER -----
These were the original inspirations for the "Nibbler".
http://www.cliplead.com/cliplead_/vactrol_synth_.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fo6UDXJqFg


----- CHAOS -----
In some of my comments for Max's "Indifference Engine" I mentioned "Cellular 
Automata" as a great source of chaotic pattern generation. These are real easy 
to implement in software and could probably even be done with op-amps and 
discrete logic if you are a masochist.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cellular_automata

The Cone Shell uses a "1D Totalistic Cellular Automata" system to generate its 
shell pattern.
http://ccl.northwestern.edu/netlogo/models/CA1DTotalistic
http://psoup.math.wisc.edu/mcell/ca_gallery.html

Rudy Rucker does some great CA software, I recommend downloading and playing 
around with "Capow"
http://www.cs.sjsu.edu/faculty/rucker/#Softwaredownloads



----- ARDUINO -----
There was a local distributor for the "Arduino" board at Dorkbot last night. 
The Arduino is a microcontroller board that is supported by a (free!) IDE based 
on the Wiring/Processing language/framework. I design and build these sorts of 
gadgets for a living and this looks like a pretty good deal to me. I've never 
seen anything so complete and easy to use, and it's even supported by Macintosh.

http://www.arduino.cc/

The local distributor doesn't seem to add much markup on it either, so it's 
basically equivalent to the USD$ price.

http://www.littlebirdelectronics.com/collections/arduino/



Aras


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