MidiTron
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Filed under: Electronic Instruments, Music News, Music VideosMy Home 2.0 is a bit too perky for my taste, but I have to admit that their latest how-to video is pretty hardcore.
They demonstrate how to use MidiTron with some infrared sensors to create a wall harp.
It’s a pretty straightforward MidiTron project. The sensors work like on/off switches to trigger various sounds when they are plugged into your computer’s music programs.
With the MidiTron you can use any type of analog or digital input device, from temperature sensors to regular switches, to trigger your sounds. So you could take the same basic premise described here and use any type of switch that you want.
My Home 2.0’s how-to guru Alison seems to have a twisted side. She recently hacked a animated teddy bear to read Twitter posts.
The MidiTron is a MIDI to real-world interface designed to simplify the process of creating sensor and robotics based electronic art projects. It is easily user configurable and provides 20 terminals of digital and analog inputs and outputs in any combination.
MidiTron is bi-directional. Sensor inputs are converted to MIDI output messages, and MIDI input messages are converted to terminal output voltages.
It’s $149 and is a fairly inexpensive building block for creating DIY MIDI projects. See also Limor Fried’s MIDIsense project. Read more…
