New Year, new stuff...

Yeah, happy new year everybody ... The Krampus didn't get me this year, and saint nick was very good to me. I got a microKorg, and DS-10, and a Beadazzler; so very very busy the past couple of weeks making all sorts of sounds, and putting studs in my gig-bags.

The microKorg sounds so freakin' sweet, and has some great features and the knobs feel GREAT (but weird, I'm used to sticky Moog Rogue knobs. these move too smoothly) ... I'm very in love with the patch-editor that you can nab from their site. I've never really played with midi before, I mean, I've USED midi, but never anything with sys-ex, which is awesome ... I'm gonna try playing with pureData into this, controlling the midi, then editing the sound somehow, might even bring the arduino into the fun if I can get my hands on some midi jacks, I wanna be doing some fun stuff likethis : http://www.larsby.com/johan/diytar/ (Arduino + microKorg) .

DS-10 is also AWESOME... the real cart has a little cleaner graphics than diplodicus... but that's neither here nor there... it's all fun in the end.

Also I signed up for twitter today to play around with that ... Probably build something for flashDen or what-not with their API, maybe hook up an arduino and have it tweet every time a flea farts, who knows, it's there ... displaying the minutia of a lot of people's lives...

What I got ...

I got all 3 packages from my last post. r4ds, screwdrivers, arduino ... and I've been playing around pretty hard ... gotta say, much love to the lameboy It's been keeping me entertained with some music roms (and a couple other weird games I pulled off the interwebs) also Protein[DS] is more fun than I ever dreamed...

Naturally I took apart my gameboy color, but I couldn't find any wire around suitable for the pro-sound mod ...

And the arduino (which I just got started with because my power's been out for two days) Is awesome ... I've just been playing around with that. and naturally any time a true nerd is given processing power over LED's this has to happen:

Which was done using a little "Work Around" I learned from flash:

dir = true;

if(pinA == 9){

dir = false;

}else if(pinA == 2){

dir=true;

}

if(dir){

pinA++;

pinA = HIGH;

pinA -1 = LOW;

}else{

pinA--;

pinA = HIGH;

pinA +1 = LOW;

}

Recent Purchases, very exciting

I'm very excited ... decided to buy some geek-stuff last week, which means that soon I'll have some new geek stuff to pass on to you... (other than what-ever soldered in those capacitors from last post is friggin' invincible.) But on the way is : R4DS, DS homebrew music ^_^ ... then there's an arduino comin' in some some interesting midi apps or something has to come out of that ... and as a side note I got some screw-drivers to open up palm & nintendo products so warranties be warned!

Hopefully all this means more posts in the near-future about some pretty advanced & blog-worthy stuff.