Back in 2021, I build this little thing…
8 rotary encoders, sending midi control events by an Arduino Leonardo (that can pose as a USB MIDI device out of the box), and a small Bitwig driver script.
To show controller position, a shift register per encoder drives seven LEDs. The Bitwig driver can push the logic controller states down to the device :)
It’s actually pretty neat. Still need to do a video and set up a proper code repository and instructions
2020 flashback: What you don’t want to find in your engine oil. And the origin of it…
Today (or, the last 72h), I vigorously and with growing anger and frustration tried to use the gphoto2 library in SwiftUI.
It worked immediately in Swift on the command line, but I could make it access USB in the UI app. I assumed from the beginning that this is sandboxing, Claude agreed - so I turned it off. In every build setting I could find in Xcode. Nothing worked. I lost 72 hours trying desperately to create a static library (to no avail). Today I scrapped everything…
I was wondering how my new gravel bike 1x12 setup (Shimano 40t plus CS-M7100 10-45t) compares to my older Tiagra 2x10 setup (36-50t plus CS-M771-10 11-34), so ChatGPT assisted me doing this… it’s not pretty, but helpful, at least for me.
Feels like I am actually gaining some hill performance while not loosing too much end speed or gear versatility.
Hope the bike is delivered soon :)
Bitwig just bridged „the gap“: they introduced a DAW audio interface, and one of the kickers: it has CV in/out build in.
Didn’t have a chance to lay hands on it, but it looks sweet and seems to have interesting control integration into the DAW.
As a software developer, I always feel like the stop into hardware is quite a significant one. Noice.
I have official permission to teaser this:
strayer has been working on an update for the Taira split keyboard, and if the final test stage is successful, I‘m confident the release is imminent!
Bigger batteries, a nice!view for low power consumption visual feedback - and some 3d printables are in the making, too.
Can’t wait to get this soldered and running!
v1.0 link: https://github.com/strayer/taira-keyboard
#splitkeyboard #taira #customkeyboards #nicenano2 #nicenano #niceview #bluetooth #ergomechkeyboards
During the time I was not procrastinating through Luascripting in NeoVim, I created AdornoGram. It's kind of a blog written by Theodor W. Adorno, with random cites from his Negative Dialectics.
I can't release this publicly for copyright reasons, which is sad - I consider it a nice alternative to random doomscrolling on social media.
This wasn't completely useless; I actually found a very useful fragment I could immediately integrate into my work.
I have switched to NeoVim for most of my editing tasks; currently, I am doing a lot of LaTeX. Instead of working on my dissertation, I now work on this...
