sness

latency

2009-07-14T10:47:00.001-07:00

Latency of media - Really effective graphic showing relative latencies of different media. L1, L2, RAM are little lines and Hard Disk is a massive red bar.

subtle

2009-07-13T17:45:00.001-07:00

Subtle features are good features

musichackday

2009-07-13T17:43:00.001-07:00

Music Hack Day - Wow, sounded like fun! Wish I was there.

screencast

2009-07-13T14:01:00.001-07:00

screencasting software for MacOSX.

sense

2009-07-12T20:26:00.001-07:00

Stretch Sensor Evaluation Kit User Manual - Super useful, they've got a really nice circuit diagram and explanation in this PDF
SOIC - Small-outline integrated circuit
Characteristics of Operational Amplifiers
LMC662 - CMOS Dual Operational Amplifier
Arduino MIDI out example
circuit-sigh-send.pdf
Sigh Collector
Build and Program circuit for sigh detection. Assemble electronics into carrying case.
Operational amplifier applications
6-pack-arduino-code.txt
6-pack - is an open-ended, highly customisable, and ultra-portable physical controller based on the Arduino board. 6-pack is an Arduino shield consisting of 6 linear potentiometer sliders that can be assigned to different variables in the user's preferred software. It can be used to control a wide array of audio/video applications, from software synthesizers to HDJ systems. All, with a minimal footprint (3,5" x 2,5") and on the cheap (just a fraction of the cost of an equivalent MIDI controller). The project is open source.
Touchpad Midi
Arduino Midi Library
Arduino MIDI Volume Pedal - Nice small little source code, super useful
Operational amplifier
Table 1: Summary of MIDI Status & Data Bytes
Table 2: Summary of MIDI Note Numbers for Different Octaves
Table 3: Status Bytes 176-191; Control and Mode Changes (per channel)
What are MIDI messages and what do they do? PAUL WHITE explains.
MIDI Control Change Messages
MIDI usage and applications
Table 1 - Summary of MIDI Messages
MIDI Basics

2009-07-12T18:37:00.001-07:00

void setup() {
Serial.begin(31250);
//Serial.begin(9600);
}

void loop() {
int in = analogRead(0);
//Serial.println((long)in,DEC);
midi_volume(1, in / 8);
delay(100);
}

void midi_volume(byte channel, byte vol) {
Serial.print(0xB0 | (channel & 0xf), BYTE); // control change command
Serial.print(0x01, BYTE); // volume command
Serial.print(vol & 0x7f, BYTE); // volume 0-127
}

restful

2009-07-11T14:15:00.003-07:00

How to Create a REST Protocol

js

2009-07-11T14:15:00.001-07:00

Are the new JavaScript engines going to completely change the game?

rest

2009-07-11T14:14:00.001-07:00

The Beauty of REST

url

2009-07-11T14:11:00.003-07:00

The power of the URL-line

aws

2009-07-11T14:11:00.001-07:00

HotPads Shows the True Cost of Hosting on Amazon

I love Amazon hosting, and if I were to do another project that required big iron I would totally use it again. I still have a few things on Amazon, but most on VPS servers, including the mighty mighty Quantact, one of the best VPS servers out there.

I also have servers on Slicehost, but somehow their servers aren't quite as well tuned as Quantact, but they have some really nice management software.

I have also had good success with iWeb, but their dedicated server got a little too pricey for me.

pretty

2009-07-11T14:07:00.003-07:00

'prettyPrint' for JavaScript

names

2009-07-11T14:07:00.001-07:00

Naming Things in Code

Giving the right names to things in your code is very important, and something that I think about a lot. I used to ponder longer in the past, but now with Emacs and M-x tag-query-replace, I name things something reasonable to start with, and then if I think of a better name, I globally change the name to something better.

grind

2009-07-11T14:05:00.005-07:00

(Val)grinding your code

twitter arch

2009-07-11T14:05:00.003-07:00

Twitter, an Evolving Architecture - Neat!

br

2009-07-11T14:05:00.001-07:00

Bash Reduce

mf

2009-07-11T14:04:00.001-07:00

Maestro Frankenstein screenshot
Geophonic Music
Joseph Rovan
Arvid - Sensory Overload
Arvid Tomayko-Peters
Geophonics
North American First Leaf and First Bloom Lilac Phenology Data
National Phenology Network - Historical Phenology Data
Surround Sound
Annual hawk migration in Duluth
Phenology - Definition
The Phenology Page
What Is Phenology - Plant and Animal Cycles of Nature

Phenology is defined as a branch of science dealing with the relations between climate and periodic biological phenomena. Stated another way, phenology is the study of the response of living organisms to seasonal and climatic changes to the environment in which they live. Seasonal changes include variations in the duration of sunlight, precipitation, temperature and other life-controlling factors.

Phenology - is the study of the timing of natural events. Common examples include the date that migrating birds return, the first flower dates for plants, and the date on which a lake freezes in the autumn or opens in the spring. Phenological records help alert us about the events of nature and provide interesting comparisons between years and among different geographic regions. If recorded carefully and consistently, these records also have scientific value for understanding the interactions between organisms and their environment and for assessing the impacts of climate change.

USA National Phenology Network
Nature's Calendar

bioacoustics

2009-07-11T13:58:00.001-07:00

Bioacoustics journal: information
Bioacoustics at wikipedia

love ada

2009-07-11T13:57:00.001-07:00

Love it.

MIR

2009-07-10T16:16:00.003-07:00

MIR (Music Information Retrieval) datasets

oscillate

2009-07-10T16:16:00.001-07:00

Poorman's oscilloscope (with Arduino + Processing)

LED driver

2009-07-10T16:15:00.001-07:00

MM5450/5451 - LED Display Driver

haptic

2009-07-10T14:50:00.001-07:00

The future is haptic, right?
Research: Tactile User Interfaces
TouchEngine production
Last night I dreamt about haptic touch-screen overlays... by Lynn Marentette

gfs

2009-07-10T14:10:00.001-07:00

Full explanation of the recent GFS problems that caused App Engine to fail.

Oh my god, I'm so glad I didn't get that job with Google a couple years ago. I can't imagine how stressful this would be.

My chosen career, doing Music Information Retrieval at UVIC is soooooooooo much cooler!

Today I'm working on the orcaannotator, working out bugs. I've already solved a few big ones, and am working on one of the zoom level bugs right now.

cadr

2009-07-10T09:44:00.001-07:00

Retrocomputing - MIT CADR Lisp Machines

"I took the red pill... two, in fact :-)"