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ventosus

Maker of expressive electronic music controllers

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Who I Am

I design expressive, highly sensitive, electronic music controllers to more tightly connect musicians with synthesizers.

Why I'm on Hackaday.io

Seems the right place to be.

controller STM32 sensor MUSIC effect hall magnet expressive
  • Open Music Kontrollers GitHub
  • Open Music Kontrollers Main Page
  • Open Music Kontrollers Chimaera Page

This user joined on 06/05/2014.

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A highly responsive wind controller with expressive continuous push buttons based on linear hall-effect sensors - A musical IoT device -
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  • Plated slots for OSHPark in KiCAD

    09/14/2015 at 20:01 • 0 comments

    I have always thought that OSHPark do not support plated slots at all.

    But this is actually not true anymore, they (OSHPark) just don't officially support it ;-)

    You apparently have to mark the plated slots on the outline/edge layer for the fab-house to note as described here:

    http://support.oshpark.com/support/solutions/articles/134889-internal-cutouts-and-slots

    A more in-detail description on how to do this in KiCAD can be found here:

    https://forum.kicad.info/t/oval-pads-not-possible-for-oshpark/835/4

    • Draw a line on the outline/edge layer and set its diameter to the slot's width, it's as simple as that

    If you follow the instructions, OSHPark should give you a preview with plated slots (and hopefully the fab-house will do as isntructed, too).

  • WANTED: Chimaera Beta Testers

    12/31/2014 at 08:30 • 0 comments

    After a high interest at Maker Faire Rome, we are now running a beta-testing campaign to collect more comprehensive feedback of first-hand experiences of our final Chimaera prototype design from interested individuals. Get in contact with us for a month of free testing (excl. shipping).

    http://open-music-kontrollers.ch/chimaera/

    http://open-music-kontrollers.ch/contact/

  • Chimaera wins FIRST PRICE at "WIZnet connect the Magic 2014 design challenge"

    09/22/2014 at 09:01 • 0 comments

    http://circuitcellar.com/wiznet2014/winners/

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Things I've Built

Chimaera - the poly-magneto-phonic theremin

The Chimaera is a touchless device giving the player highly resolved, low-latency control over two continuous dimensions. http://open-music-kontrollers.ch/chimaera/

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AVR wrote 08/05/2014 at 22:59 • point
Thanks for follwing the Hammerhead!

  Are you sure? yes | no

ventosus wrote 08/06/2014 at 06:12 • point
I'm really curious where this goes. I look at it from a musical point of view and would love to see it used as a bidirectional bridge between software synthesizers and analog synthesizers, to get the best of both worlds...

  Are you sure? yes | no

jaromir.sukuba wrote 06/14/2014 at 20:46 • point
Looking at the feed, it seems like you wrote something on my microreader project page, but the comment didn't display there. It looks like the comment disappeared.

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ventosus wrote 06/15/2014 at 07:58 • point
It was another comment about fast reading. It was redundant as others have pointed it out previously, so I removed it.

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