[sdiy] Hardware Interface Options (was: Make a CS80)

[cheater cheater]

Hi Michael,
cool stuff!
I'm a big proponent of OSC, if you have any ideas/questions/etc make
sure to send them to me or post to sdiy :-)

D.

On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 01:41, Michael Zacherl. <sdiy-mz01 at blauwurf.info> wrote:
> Hi Damian,
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>    thanks for that pointers!
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> I'm conceiving a hardware interface which utilizes OSC, mainly to get the haptics of real hardware and have high resolution on the pots etc.
> (I don't like MIDI for being way too coarse)
> It's gonna be fun but also will take me a long while ..
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>  ;-) Michael.
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> On Apr 5, 2010, at 01:23 , cheater cheater wrote:
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>> Seems we've got a winner! So the right keyword for google to find
>> those is 'circular bargraph'.... makes a lot of sense... bars that are
>> circular ... right? Never seen circular bars? Me either. The Chinese
>> never cease to amaze me.
>>
>> tricolor (r/g/y), 15 leds, size just right for a knob... but maybe not
>> wide enough angle, only 1.16 pi radians (210 degrees):
>> http://www.ledtronics.com/products/ProductsDetails.aspx?WP=M583K162
>>
>> And some less related stuff that I thought was cool...
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>> Not really relevant, but I could use a 'MegaWatts' display on my modular :-)
>> http://www.otekcorp.com/otekdwnld/hiqtbs-hiq123-hiq124.pdf
>>
>> Just for displaying stuff, this is pretty cool:
>> http://www.otekcorp.com/otekdwnld/lsb.pdf
>> wheel shape display, cool thing, high resolution!
>>
>> and some plasma VU bar graphs!
>> http://www.teletherm.com/products3.html
>>
>> User interfaces can look cool :-)
>> D.
>>
>> On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 00:45, cheater cheater <cheater00 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hi guys!
>>> I've ran into some cool stuff today :-)
>>>
>>> ribbon controller, 10 cm up to 2m:
>>> http://www.spectrasymbol.com/typo3/site/en/membrane-potentiometers.html?no_cache=1
>>>
>>> basically, a linear potentiometer.
>>>
>>> all sorts of shapes, circular, linear, multi-row, ...
>>> linear response
>>>
>>>
>>> aaand has someone said polyphonic aftertouch?
>>> http://content.honeywell.com/sensing/sensotec/loadcell.asp
>>>
>>> These units measure a wide range of force; 25 grams to 3,000,000 lbs.
>>> Honeywell load cells also offer the highest levels of accuracy and
>>> commercially available today; 0.05% to 0.5% F.S. while coping with
>>> temperatures from -60¼F up to 320¼F.
>>>
>>> 25 grams... that's not so much. Definitely less than I need for the
>>> Ensoniq SQ80 aftertouch!
>>>
>>> I was searching around for led rings too... but found nada. Any ideas? :-)
>>>
>>> D.
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