Hello again fellow ChucKists,

eChucK is inspired by and related to ChucK.  The "e" stands for electronic, so it's a hardware implementation of some of ChucK's features in concept.  The idea is that we would like to create little bitty postage-stamp sized circuit boards that perform ChucK UGen, code, and instrument features in electronic form and then wire these boards up into free-standing "sculptures" that can create music on their own or interact with ChucK software or both.  Also ChucK can model eChucK sculptures, which I have done a few times.

OK, now for the updates.  I had four dsPIC-based eChucK circuit boards made and two of them are taken, I'm keeping one for myself, and there remains one board to be mailed out for free to anyone who would like to work on the project.  Please let me know if you would like me to send you this board.  In other news, the awesome folks at www.electro-music.com were interested enough in eChucK to create a forum for it right next to the ChucK forum under the DIY section.  I am moderator of that forum and I posted design files, hardware and software descriptions, and ChucK files there.

Some folks have participated in the eChucK forum threads and a few are working on their own vision of what eChucK should eventually become.  We have one fellow working on a special type of processor (i forget which) for eChucK in England, I'm working on some Lunetta-based eChucK possibilities, and I just heard from someone in Brazil who is planning to create an Arduino-based eChucK project.  I purposely left the specifications of the project as open and unstructured as possible so that people could do things however they wanted as long as everything works together.