Today’s challenge: can I prototype a music-making or -controlling thing that uses rail data, in the amount of time the Eurostar takes to go from London to Belgium? 🚅

I call it Bruxelles-MIDI.

This may be a terrible pun but I’ve had the idea for ages, and maybe the time limit will help me actually start it.

@mattgrayyes makes me excited for fosdem!
@mattgrayyes yes but in practice you only have from the exit of the Eurotunnel to your arrival in Brussels, because the signal on the UK side is so bad :p
@mattgrayyes Dang, that's a cool idea to generate basically random values =)
@mattgrayyes with an asterisk, a dagger, and a double dagger, yes. it all depends on which data you pick, pick wisely (and don't use the RDM!)
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Next up: controlling an observation tower on the Mont Blanc massif. An Aiguille du MIDI interface.