seidbereit.de

Finally i started a new category on my blog: Monome
Like the coding category this one will also be in English as it targets a quite international audience.

So first of all, welcome all you monome’ers around the globe. You’ll probably get the idea quite fast

But for all non monome-aware folks just a short introduction:
Monome (pronounce it as you like.. ) is, first of all, a box with an illuminated button grid. Typically 8×8.
It’s mostly used to “create music” but in fact is more versatile than that. Basically it sends information about button presses via USB to the computer which can send information about lighting up LEDs in return. All of this happens asynchron.

There’s lot of open source software that was created for the monome. A list can be found in the monome wiki.

The whole device is open source too, meaning the firmware is open sourced, the hardware layout is open source an we build a great community which is very enthusiastic about helping each other.

Since I got myself one of those precious (only 400 were made of the one i got) devices for last christmas (a monome 40h original with build in accelerometer, yay! ) I instantly fell in love with it. It also got me into physical engineering. And that’s what this is all about…

I’m going to build me a monome!

You got one already?!.. you might think. But that’s not the point. You can’t have enough of those boxes
Further I’m aiming to gain experience with firmware coding, soldering, reading datasheets and everything around. And yes, I looove blinking lights!!!

So again, welcome all of you!!!

In the following days I’ll tell you more about what exactly I’m planing to build. This will be totally abnormal! Trust me