LDR ideas

[John Speth]

I think (if my memory from 3 years ago is good) this device was called the "MIDI Egg"?  I remember reading about this in Electronic Musician mag.

John Speth
Object Engineering, Inc.
johns at oei.com

-----Original Message-----
From:	tomg [SMTP:tomg at vivid.net]
Sent:	Tuesday, April 28, 1998 11:51 AM
To:	synth-diy at mailhost.bpa.nl
Subject:	Re: LDR ideas

About 2 years ago a company started selling a midi controller that works by
breaking a generated field (light?). I wish I could remember what it's called.
Maybe someone else can remember. I think Duran Duran used one on "Electric
Barbarella".
-Tom



On 28-Apr-98, Adam M Bowen wrote:
>i know this isn't music-related, but oh well. what about a pc input
>device? there must be a clever way of arranging cells to create a simple
>interface with as many as three degrees of freedom and a "click"
>function. that'd be cool at least for the novelty.

>has anyone tried to develop this?

>steve.ridley at bbc.co.uk wrote:
>> 
>> The LDR-based "mini-theremin" project discussed recently got
>> me thinking of other creative uses of LDRs, especially as
>> Maplin will sell 100 LDRs for 14 plus TAX.  These are just
>> a few ideas "off the top of my head", so not yet tried.
>> 

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