Successful integration of blinkenlights and noisemakers:
Oh, and happy tofurkey day!
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Twitter- Barf: http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/4510/125/ via @localhuman
- RT @xtracycle Fun cargo-bicycle challenge idea: http://bit.ly/2HKn4S // this is hilariously cute.
- Red Balloons! Help me find them for charity! http://redballoonwatch.com and http://networkchallenge.darpa.mil/
- ouch. http://bit.ly/3MyyaE
- Sen. Burr voted against rape victims - and with his campaign contributors. Help @Change_Congress shame him. Sign here: http://bit.ly/l8I1l
- Turns out dish soap and warm water get beer funk out of freeloader bag nicely. Also reminded me to clean cassette. @xtracycle @zmagg
- Somebody put a half-full Budweiser in my @xtracycle bag last night. Trying to figure out how best to clean out nasty beer funk. :(
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Very cool!
But, how about back at you with something where the blinkenlights ARE the noisemakers.
@Tanner
OMG that’s awesome.
…but… does it run Linux?
It doesn’t run anything. It’s completely solid state. The input can be anything that generates sine waves. They use a “zero detector” that converts when a wave transitions from positive to negative and use that to generate a pulse of light that is sent through fiber optics to the coil and used to turn the coil on and off. It’s an INCREDIBLY COOL hack because it can reproduce any kind of sound just by turning the coil on and off at that frequency. This video shows them using both a keyboard and an electric bass as input to an earlier version of the coil.
I REALLY want to build one of these now!