Synthesizer and electronic music news, synth and music software reviews and more! TapeOp.com Ableton Empire Cheat Sheet : All Cheat Sheets in one page Keyboard Magazine SADbot: A DIY Drawing Machine That Loves Light Outside of New York City’s Eyebeam studio, an artist's hub dedicated to the convergence of art and technology, two women pause to see a pen doodling across a canvas behind a window. When they touch little circles on the glass, the pen changes direction. “What’s this?” SADbot, or Seasonally Affected Drawing Robot, is a solar-powered, interactive drawing machine created by Eyebeam artists Dustyn Roberts and Ben Leduc-Mills. "People are only happy when it's sunny," says Roberts. When the sky is dark, SADbot stops doodling and "goes to sleep." SADbot uses an Arduino microcontroller, four photocell sensors, a battery, and two stepper motors to control two cables attached to a pen. The interactive part occurs when a person stands in front of SADbot and covers up one of its photocell sensors, which the SADbot registers and then changes its drawing direction. But after checking the gallery's window where SADbot was to be installed, Roberts and Leduc-Mills noticed a problem. No problem.
gocupi - Go + Raspberry Pi polargraph A Polargraph / drawbot inspired project, using a Raspberry Pi + Go + Arduino. Made with the help and laser cutter of the Dallas Makerspace A very helpful Gocupi Software Guide is available that details the bill of materials and steps to install the software on a new Raspberry Pi and use the software. It was created by George Dunson, a fellow Dallas Makerspace member. Basic parts list of what I used to build this project. Basic polargraph description Two stepper motors move a pen hanging from threads to draw stuff out on a whiteboard. This project is different from most other Polargraphs in that there is no step generation code on the arduino, everything is calculated in Go and then the arduino just receives a stream of step deltas that it stores in a memory buffer and then executes. Design description In the Go program, there are several channels that form a pipeline where separate functions execute the different pipeline stages. Some pictures of the polargraph: Video of it running
The Wettest County in the World Background[edit] The novel was inspired by the author's paternal grandfather and two great-uncles.[1] The novel focuses on the historical events of the Great Franklin County Moonshine Conspiracy, a series of events and a trial related to the illegal activities of the moonshiners in Franklin County.[2] Sherwood Anderson was there working as a journalist at the time. To research the historical period, Bondurant listened to family stories and used archival records, news clippings and court transcripts.[3] Locals began to think of the three brothers as "indestructible" because all of them survived. In an essay, Bondurant said that he had illegal moonshine from Franklin County, despite having been raised in Alexandria, Virginia, a suburb of Washington, D.C.. As a teenager, he first drank moonshine, and he knows his relatives in Franklin County drank moonshine at family events. Style[edit] Reception[edit] Film adaptation[edit] References[edit] ^ Jump up to: a b c Fisher, Ann H. (7/1/2008).