Here's a new breaks and dubstep mix, as heard on http://www.nsbradio.co.uk/ :
http://mechomaniac.com/mixes/TimoApril2010.mp3
This is my last mix before I leave Tasmania for extended travel in Europe - please contact me if you'd like me to play at your club or festival.
It's time to build a robot!
I plan to make a robot using a Beagleboard for high-level functions:
And an Arduino for low-level functions:
Thanks to the folks at beagleboard.org, my shiny new Beagleboard has arrived! This is from the "Beagleboard Sponsored Projects Program" at http://beagleboard.org/contest. If you have an idea for a good project involving the Beagleboard, you can submit the details. Each week, two projects will be selected for a free board!
It's useful to have a physical way to control software running on the Bealgeboard, though without a normal keyboard this can be difficult.
This mix is packed with a massive selection of choice tunes - housey / fidgety / breaksy / indy goodness. Fitting so many tracks into a short mix was well worth the challenge :)
It might be the last mix for 2009 too: download and enjoy!
http://mechomaniac.com/mixes/TimoNov2009.mp3 (192k quality)
http://mechomaniac.com/mixes/TimoNov2009_320.mp3 (320k quality)
Track list:
I bought a Sharp IR distance sensor to add to my robot to prevent it form bumping into things. This sensor outputs a voltage proportional to the distance to an object (supposedly from 3.1V at 10cm to 0.4V at 80cm).
This project is an Arduino based step sequencer, synthesizer and sound effects box. It was constructed a year ago as a third birthday present, and has recently come back to me for some 'refurbishment' - fresh batteries and some glue to fix LEDs that have been pushed into the box. Not too bad after a year with a small child!
After my initial experiments with the Ardumoto motor shield, I've decided to extend it to drive the pan / tilt servos on my robot.
I've started construction of the chassis to support all of the robot components:
More details coming soon...
