i don’t want to disassemble the breadboard containing my physical computing final from last year, because chances are good that i’ll never be able to reassemble it. so tomorrow i’ll go to the computer store and buy a fresh new breadboard. i’ll set it up for MIDI as fast as i can, and then i’ll start plugging things into it. this afternoon i sifted through my box of junk and found some good knobs. i hot-glued one of the knobs to a potentiometer and it seems to be working pretty well… i’m not sure about the permanence of it though, so in the future i might need to use something a little stronger than hot glue to attach the knob to the pot.
still need to think about what it will all look like put together. right now i’m just focusing on getting the components built and working, but i need to keep the overall structure in mind too.
in terms of buttons i’m not sure what i’m going to use yet. i really wanted to use the car radio component, but it’s ridiculously rusty and i’m not sure i’ll be able to salvage any of the buttons. the boombox has some good buttons that i might be able to use. and also, the boombox’s radio tuner is really cool…. it works with a knob and a thread running through a a system of little tiny pullies. remarkably it still works, and i’m gonna try to use that for one of my analog inputs.
the patch way more simple than i thought it would be, and a lot of fun to play with. so that’s a good sign. one thing i need to figure out: how to stop the layers from compositing over one another and just show one or the other.
that’s it for now.