Hi folks, I have this Idea and let me know if it's crazy as many of my ideas are, but I think it's a good one: electronic ChucK. The concept is to build little bitty circuit boards that each model a ChucK UGen. Naturally the more complex ones like the instruments are too complex to attempt initially, but the simple ones like gain, SqrOsc, LPF and the like can be easily constructed. Once these modules are available in physical form as little circuit boards, a user can hook them up just like a ChucK patch. Some of the programming aspects of ChucK can also be modeled with PIC processor modules. I envision using the miniature screw-terminals available for interconnect so that the electronic ChucKist can hook them up with wire. If solid wire is used, one could construct geometric structures that occupy physical space in three dimensions. There would be support modules such as a power module, a dac module, and some types of adc modules, plus LED modules, etc. I am interested in your opinion of the project as I believe that ChucKists work better as a group than individually. I would make the schematics and layout files available for free on the internet and also I would do production runs of the boards for people who wanted to just buy the thing instead of DIYing it. What are your thoughts? Les (Inventor)
On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 11:54 AM,
Hi folks,
I have this Idea and let me know if it's crazy as many of my ideas are, but I think it's a good one: electronic ChucK. The concept is to build little bitty circuit boards that each model a ChucK UGen. Naturally the more complex ones like the instruments are too complex to attempt initially, but the simple ones like gain, SqrOsc, LPF and the like can be easily constructed. Once these modules are available in physical form as little circuit boards, a user can hook them up just like a ChucK patch. Some of the programming aspects of ChucK can also be modeled with PIC processor modules.
I envision using the miniature screw-terminals available for interconnect so that the electronic ChucKist can hook them up with wire. If solid wire is used, one could construct geometric structures that occupy physical space in three dimensions. There would be support modules such as a power module, a dac module, and some types of adc modules, plus LED modules, etc.
I am interested in your opinion of the project as I believe that ChucKists work better as a group than individually. I would make the schematics and layout files available for free on the internet and also I would do production runs of the boards for people who wanted to just buy the thing instead of DIYing it. What are your thoughts?
Les (Inventor)
GREAT IDEA. WORLD CLASS. I mean it. -- ------- -.- 1/f ))) --. ------- ... http://www.algomantra.com
Les,
I am interested in your opinion of the project as I believe that ChucKists work better as a group than individually. I would make the schematics and layout files available for free on the internet and also I would do production runs of the boards for people who wanted to just buy the thing instead of DIYing it. What are your thoughts?
It sounds to me like you re-invented the modular synthesiser ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modular_synthesizer ). Typically people don't keep their modules in separate cases and instead put them together in a single case with the power supply integrated with the case but it's basically the same idea. I like those so I like your idea but it's not a 100% new idea, I fear. Yours, Kas.
I think it's a great idea if you think of the separate electronic Chuckian processors as monads rather than modules. I'm quite convinced of the benefits of functional structures, and modular architecture, but distributed systems have a strange other-worldly appeal that fascinates me. To me this idea is analogous to a swarm of crickets producing that mesmerising sound of collective monadic behavior, which produces emergent sonic phenomenon, that have not been programmed by the inventor. ------- -.- 1/f ))) --. ------- ... http://www.algomantra.com
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