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General Information

• homepage
• PLOrk Reader
• primary meeting time: Th 1:30-4:20, McAlpin and/or Studio B
  • assistance setting up may be requested on many of these meetings

Important Dates

• November 7 (tentative) and 8 (definite); performances in DC area.
  • Not everyone will be involved, and this is a PLOrk-specific performance.

Hardware Resources

books and other readings

• get Nic Collins' book on hardware hacking
• Reed Ghazala's book on circuit-bending is also a blast
• Bart Hopkins' book on instrument building has lots of great info about building musical things out of metal, wood, glass, and so on...
• check out the proceedings from past NIME conferences (New Interfaces for Musical Expression) for ideas and general wackiness
• PLOrk Reader again

campus stuff

• if you haven't visited Perry's soundlab do so!
• there is a machine shop class offered in the Engineering Quad; useful primarily for metal-working, though wood and plastic is also possible. contact Larry McIntyre about taking this 5-week course to get access to the machine shop

arduino stuff

• Arduino microncontroller resources
  • tutorials
  • useful introductory notes from a different course (check out the "class notes" pdfs)
  • assembly tutorial for the ProtoShield; a useful way to get comfortable with some basic electronics assembly and end up with something useful.
  • another super easy protoshield; $10 at Radio Shack

Software Resources