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| real name: | Scott Driscoll |
| website: | www.curiousinventor.com |
| location: | atlanta, USA |
| background, education, job, etc.: | schooling: mechanical engineering + music technology from GaTech and CMU, research was on control of hydraulic systems and robotic drummers. I run this site with help from a lot of others. |
| interests: | music, robotics + controls, would like to get into fpgas and back-yard forging. .. |
| skills: | microcontroller programming (in C), matlab, CAD (solidworks + eagle), ruby on rails, a tiny bit of signal processing, controls |
Projects
Feb 07 2008
completed
This box lets you convert a PS2 controller (including Guitar Hero) straight into MIDI out.
Aug 08 2005
completed
The idea was to mix algorithmic music with "real-people" music by making a robot that could listen to other human players and use their playing to seed a variety of response algorithms. A variety of call-and-response routines were developed, some simply rearranging input, others that created more dense or sparse responses to complement the human’s playing. We dabbled a bit into beat matching and using fractal math to drive the robot.
Sep 27 2008
done
This was one of my favorite class projects… the goal was to write a Ray Tracer using OpenGL. This is a video of the result, which has a magnifying glass, reflections, texture-mapping, shadows and anti-aliasing.