Stephen Coyle

@stephencoyle
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Musician, writer and programmer. Proud owner of a barely-used PhD. Donegal, Ireland.
Githubhttps://github.com/stephenjdc
Websitehttps://stephencoyle.com
PageTurnhttps://apps.apple.com/us/app/pageturn/id1589601355
Pronounshe/him/his

FIVE! DAYS! FIVE! DAYS! FIVE DAYS UNTIL THE SUMMIT! That's barely any time at all!!! Have you gotten your tickets yet? Have you signed up for your workshops? Now's the time!

Get tickets right here: https://ticket.nodeforum.org/OHS26/

A quick look at some of my instruments:
https://mastodon.social/@stephencoyle/116594374515794806
I do love drones (the musical kind).

I'll do a proper write up when I'm back home, but I've been experimenting with input methods for musical instruments. I'm focusing on using physical, intuitive mechanisms like flywheels and shakers.

The orange cylinder contains some suspended magnets and Hall effect sensors, so shakes and their amplitudes can be turned into musical outputs. The green and white wheels are weighted flywheels that spin freely, and the rate of rotation is used to control the amplitude of a synthesised drone sound.

I managed to fit in some badge hacking, using ESPNow to connect it to one of my synths and use the badge keyboard as a... keyboard (the other kind).

Had a great time in ridiculously-beautiful Lecco at @hackaday Europe 2026 this weekend. I gave a talk about some musical instruments I've been prototyping, will share some more about them on here soon!

Absolutely love the conference badge - can't wait to play around with it some more.

#hackadayeurope2026

Earlier this year I was impacted by the mass layoffs at Block, which sucks. One upside, however, is that it finally gave me time to work on a major update to PageTurn, my app for hands-free document and sheet music reading.

This release adds a bunch of new features, including:
• Set lists
• Ebook support
• Web page support (surprisingly great for recipes when your hands are messy)

It's on the App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/pageturn/id1589601355

Downloads/boosts/shares very much appreciated 🙂

Surely electing an _even more_ Tory-ish Labour leader will help British politics, right?
Anyway here's some Bee Gees, because it was playing in the dentist's waiting room earlier and got stuck in my head.
And a minor warning that getting used to the app does forever cause one to twitch one's mouth to try and turn pages, even with real sheet music...