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bleep as a service

Exploring ways to bring bleep to the people in this dark ages of COVID-19

Will probably be in the wild during rC3

Idea so far

• A RasPi livestreaming modular synth.
  • The RasPi is connected over a MIDI interface with the synth.
  • (Optional: The RasPi is connected to a DMX interface for some lightning).
  • (Optional: The RasPi is connected over OPC to a LED matrix).
• Any user can send requests to change some of the CV values.
  • Requests can either be sent over LoRaWAN, Telegrambot, Twitterbot.
  • During some times it will also be possible to call and ask a human operator to turn some knobs.
  • (Optional: Use Bluetooth from nearby to change some values).
• The RasPi processes the requests using n8n or node-red and sends the new values over the connected digital interfaces.

Material so far

• 1x NerdSeq with IO Expander
  • should give 6 MIDI channels with CV, Gate and Mod each.
  • Has a SEGA controller port (this calls for cool hacks)
• Bunch of modules
• RasPi
• USB MIDI interface
• Camera (RasPi or Webcam)

What's done so far

• Got to talk to my NerdSeq (isn't that stable when you just throw random stuff at it)
• Wrote some python code to send MIDI messages
• Found out about sendMIDI and recieveMIDI, two very UNIX MIDI commandline tools

TODO

• Install the MIDI stuff on a RasPi
• Connect and configure audio and video on the RasPi
• Install and program the workflow stuff
• Make a wilder patch
• (Optional: Getting the Sega Controller stuff done)

Resources

• Read Sega controller from arduino: https://jonthysell.com/2014/07/26/reading-sega-genesis-controllers-with-arduino/
• Sega controller arduino library: https://github.com/jonthysell/SegaController/tree/master/src