Make Magazine Pixelmusic 3000

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• Kevin Wood Posts: 1,266

  2008-07-11 01:15 edited 2008-07-11 01:15

  Well, if you live near a bookstore that sells the magazine, it is on the shelves right now...
• Ale Posts: 2,363

  2008-07-11 05:15 edited 2008-07-11 05:15

  I do not see that it is very difficult to recreate something similar, you can use any TV Text object with some block character... a sigma-delta ADC and some testing of effects...
• VIRAND Posts: 656

  2008-07-11 08:09 edited 2008-07-11 08:09

  The thing in Make is like "Atari Video Music" from the early 1970's which does this:
  youtube.com/watch?v=-NWwtZCpC2M
  
  It's like VU/dB meter lights except it's 2 dimensional and changes color,
  and also resembles a 1970's style "color organ" but with awfully low resolution graphics.
  Groovy visualizations for that new 8-track tape player.
• johnfl68 Posts: 72

  2008-07-12 14:34 edited 2008-07-12 14:34

  They give you access to the spin code on that page, no need to recreate.
  
  John
• Nick McClick Posts: 1,003

  2008-07-14 17:57 edited 2008-07-14 17:57

  Why can't they do the ADC on the prop with a few discretes? The mic on the demoboard just needed a decoupling cap. The audio demos in the propeller tool have 10 bit resolution (I believe), which should be good enough for a project like this. Maybe I'm missing something...
• VIRAND Posts: 656

  2008-07-14 23:58 edited 2008-07-14 23:58

  I think just because it was very easy to get matched stereo inputs by adding that one ADC chip.
• Nick McClick Posts: 1,003

  2008-08-04 06:25 edited 2008-08-04 06:25

  I converted this for the demoboard, if you're interested. Not a very elegant hack, but it works.
  
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