PLOrk fall2007
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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
