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exercise bike 20 Aug 2013 | 11:37 pm
so i needed to get in shape (still do): borrowed an exercise bike from a friend. i wanted to see the biggest cities in the world while doing so: google earth. all that was missing was a way to control...
guitar neck tracking & gesture recognition 9 Jul 2013 | 09:19 pm
i finally found something useful to do with my kinect: tracking the neck of a guitar and using gesture recognition to control the FX rack of a pure data patch. Video Guitar neck tracking i used the...
theremin à crayon 25 Mar 2013 | 10:50 pm
The “Not-just-for-sci-fi electronic instrument” that is played without being touched + a graphic tablet on top & some very simple electronics in the case (power / convert the theremin via USB). Both a...
heavy box 14 Jan 2013 | 06:21 am
NFAQ what are you going to do with it? think of it as an effects unit or dsp in a box, but it’s also a silent computer with good processing power (as the time of this writing). the main project is to ...
puredata on a tablet 9 Apr 2012 | 04:14 pm
here’s a short video showing puredata running on a ARM v7 / Cortex-A9 tablet (Zenithink c71 aka uPad: 1ghz, 512mb ram). i got this tablet for 144$ CAD. it is possible to connect an arduino to it (via ...
Online Speech Recognition for Dictation 16 Jun 2011 | 05:28 pm
I’m working on the integration of kiku (voice recognition to control your OS) to Vinux (Linux for the visually impaired). For now the feedback about kiku is great, but one thing people wants is a solu...
p-waves physical feedback 25 Mar 2011 | 04:16 am
on march 11 my apartment in tokyo was shook by an earthquake of magnitude 9.0: since i don’t have a mobile phone (i must be the only one in japan without a keitai) i wasn’t aware of the incoming eart...
vibrating art 20 Dec 2010 | 07:23 am
the idea is simple: take an old electric toothbrush; add a led and a vibrator; shape something around it; i am using polycaprolactone (FDA approuved). the schematic is pretty simple, but i had to ...
video tour of akihabara 25 Sep 2010 | 02:55 pm
if you are curious to see the electronic town (Akihabara) in Tokyo:
Manabu-san 26 Aug 2010 | 01:13 am
I wrote this software (based on JMDict) to learn new words in japanese. It’s written in C++ (wxWidgets) and use sqlite3. A compiled version for Windows is available for download (with installer / unin...
