[sdiy] New Muse? (was-> Javascript Muse)

[Tim Ressel]

-> Hardware vacuum tubes? Mechanical? (3D printed mechanical!)

One word:  Antikythera   ;-)

Seriously, If it were up to me, I'd use a processor for the power, 
red/green LED matrix displays for the LEDs, and cheap tactile switches 
and some clever code to set the matrix.

Or do it all in hardware. I think I did mine with a CPLD. Not sure, its 
been years and the gizmo is long gone. Use Arduino jumpers and a *big* 
bank of headers.

Or jump into Minecraft and build it with redstone.  ;-)  ;-)  ;-)

--timbo

On 9/7/2017 1:09 PM, Donald Tillman wrote:
>> On Sep 7, 2017, at 12:13 PM, Tim Ressel <timr at circuitabbey.com> wrote:
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>> So how about a collaboration to produce a 21st century version of the Muse? There are some real possibilities for all-out brawls on the details. Totally open source, of course, of course. Maybe a simple acrylic enclosure. Sounds like fun.
> (Whaddaya mean "21st century Muse"?  I just gave you that!)
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> (And do refresh the browser window; I fixed some bugs and added some features recently.)
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> What sort of thing are you thinking of?
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> Will it have 40-position slide switches?  Where will you get those?  Oh, it's the 21st century, you can 3D print the slide switches.
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> Hardware processor?  Feel free to take my Javascript code and translate it to any language.
>      http://till.com/articles/muse/muse.js
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> Hardware CMOS?  That should be pretty straightforward.
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> Hardware vacuum tubes?  Mechanical?  (3D printed mechanical!)
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> Are you thinking of copying the Muse as a tribute?  Or extending the concepts, as a tribute to the spirit of the Muse?
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>    -- Don
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> Donald Tillman, Palo Alto, California
> http://www.till.com
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--Tim Ressel
Circuit Abbey
timr at circuitabbey.com