Here are some links for people who came to Adam & my Electrofringe 2011 talks - "Drop Dead Simple MIDI Controllers with Arduino", "The Hackerspace Movement" & "My Robot Has More Artistic Integrity than I Do"

Here are some links for people who came to Adam & my Electrofringe 2011 talks.

Drop Dead Simple MIDI Controllers with Arduino

You've got your board and your components and some programs, what's next?

Where to get More Info

• Arduino website is great, tons of great info.

• How to use a piezo sensor as a knock sensor.

• Also just try googling 'arduino whatever' to find out how to hook a whatever to an Arduino. Tons of libraries and examples out there, that you can start using and then tweak. :)

• Look up your local Hackerspace

Sources of Bits

• Australian Robotics supplied the Seeeduinos and the other bits for the workshop (thanks guys!) They stock lots of good electronics, robotics, Arduino stuff (including bits from SparkFun.)

• Futurlec is where most of the smaller components came from. The rest were sourced from ebay. You can always go to Jaycar as well.

Going Bigger

• The Seeeduino has 13 digital I/Os and 6 analog inputs. If you want more, you can use something like SparkFun Mux Shield or wire in an analog input expander chip like this

• Take a look at the W_democontroller sketch from the workshop for a sketch that you can expand to have more inputs, or you can work from the other examples and copy-paste to expand (this can turn into a mess though!)

MIDI with Arduino

• Hairless MIDI<->Serial Bridge to take serial from Arduino and put into MIDI.

• There are more ArduMIDI examples (a library for making MIDI programs on the Arduino) under libraries/ardumidi/examples.

The Hackerspace Movement

• Hackerspaces in Australia

My Robot Has More Artistic Integrity than I do

• Arcophone

• Hektor

• Russian lighty-uppy thing

• A Tool To Deceive and Slaughter

• Bruce Shapiro (Eggbot, kinetic sculptures)

• Numerically Controlled

• Steampunk Laptop