my barrel organ http://oreneta.com/my-barrel-organ Design and construction of human-powered, digitally-controlled organ-on-a-bike Mon, 14 Jul 2008 19:30:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en Palm or similar as integrated sound control device http://oreneta.com/my-barrel-organ/2008/07/14/palm-or-similar-as-integrated-sound-control-device/ http://oreneta.com/my-barrel-organ/2008/07/14/palm-or-similar-as-integrated-sound-control-device/#comments Mon, 14 Jul 2008 18:14:37 +0000 Trevor http://oreneta.com/my-barrel-organ/?p=74 Rather than mucking around with Gumstix and stuff, the excellent Christian Blanchard runs his Orgautomatix from MIDI data and a MIDI reader on a Palm (pic here of the setup). Old Palms go for a tenner and the Z22 is around 70 quid at the moment. IttyMidi does a package including an old Palm (only 8MB) for 120USD, so that’s about 3.50€ ;o) There’s a group, PalmSounds, dedicated to handhelds and music. Old list of software here, but all I want is a controller.

David Marks has done something similar:

I too am building a midi organ which played its first basic tune today !. Mine is powered by a surplus blower fan I bought from Alan Pell and which I am driving with a bench grindstone motor. I built my own controller from a DIY MIdi website. It has at present 64 outputs but can easily be upgraded to 128. I have modified a Palm PDA cable to supply a midi output from a Palm M130 and use midi player software downloaded from the States.

128 outputs sounds useful. I assume you could also do that by banking two shrinkwrapped 64-output modules. But I am not an electrical engineer, or any genuine type of engineer for that matter.

I can’t really see the point of buying a proprietary MIDI controller like this one:

(Christian is also using the http://www.j-omega.co.uk/ as the next link in the chain.)

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]]> http://oreneta.com/my-barrel-organ/2008/07/14/animated-monkey/feed/ Bike battery chargers http://oreneta.com/my-barrel-organ/2008/07/14/bike-battery-chargers/ http://oreneta.com/my-barrel-organ/2008/07/14/bike-battery-chargers/#comments Mon, 14 Jul 2008 15:27:07 +0000 Trevor http://oreneta.com/my-barrel-organ/?p=71 A couple of things found (a Topsy, for example, “runs for 7 hours on a 12 volt 30 AH battery“):

  1. http://www.mark-ju.net/bike_ride/equipment/charger.htm charges stack of 6Vs
  2. For about the same weight as a generator setup, you could get a solar charger that works whether you
    are pedaling or not. Batteries.com has one that weighs .28 pounds and will charge 4 AAs in “as
    little as 12 hours of direct sun” and costs 20 bucks.
  3. http://geektechnique.org/projectlab/511 Bike-charger for iPod
  4. http://geektechnique.org/projectlab/236 previous hand crank version

Trad dynamo setup = easier initial setup but less reliable

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http://wfmu.org/listen.ram?show=27314&archive=42923 nice xylophone stuff

]]> http://oreneta.com/my-barrel-organ/2008/07/14/red-norvo-quartet-dance-of-the-octopus/feed/ Gumstix http://oreneta.com/my-barrel-organ/2008/07/14/gumstix/ http://oreneta.com/my-barrel-organ/2008/07/14/gumstix/#comments Mon, 14 Jul 2008 12:06:26 +0000 Trevor http://oreneta.com/my-barrel-organ/?p=69 D says re controlling barrel organ valves using MIDI:

Could probably do that very neatly using micro pc like a gumstix
No need for hard drive for midi files - use flash memory. Power it off solar/dynamo, probably.

Customer projects

Do I want something like this? You bet:

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