I realize that writing about the weather doesn’t make for the most interesting blog posts, but last year I made a mental note to try to record some notes about the weather for my own reference. Once again it did not snow in September, so I suppose I have to adapt to the changing climate and stop thinking/saying that it usually snows in Boulder before the end of September. It used to do so, but now it doesn’t, it seems. The forecast says it’s going to snow this afternoon; we shall see.
The kittens are much larger now. I’ll put up a new batch of photos sometime within the next few days. Maddy’s still on a low dose of Prednisone but hopefully the vet will tell us that we can cease that altogether before much longer.
I finished populating my Juergen Haible VCO PC board but haven’t had a chance to test it yet. This weekend I intend to make a temporary panel for it and get it wired up and running.
I’m also planning to spend some quality time with Live 8. I’m a long-time Cubase user and am generally quite happy with version 5, but Live may be better suited to how I work if I can come to terms with it.
Here’s a quick snapshot of a project I finished a few weeks back:
It’s an array of 64 RGB LEDs, mounted behind a honeycomb-like grid of hexagonal tubes made from cardstock. Each hexagon is a bit more than an inch on its long axis. There’s a sheet of diffusion paper on top to unify the light from the three elements in each LED. The LEDs are driven by a microcontroller that generates different patterns of changing colors and so forth. I’ll document it here in greater detail once I summon the enthusiasm to do some video editing.
Update: It’s 1:15PM and some snowflakes are falling.
Pretty.
Let me know what you think of the sound of the Haible VCO vs the Schrieber VCO.
Will do. I’m not expecting the raw sound of a single oscillator to be that much different from the MOTM VCO. The differences will be in the pulse-width modulation, which can go to zero in the MOTM VCO but not in the Haible VCO; and in the linear detuning in the Haible VCO. The latter, obviously, will only be apparent when two VCOs are mixed. If the differences turn out to be dramatic I’ll put up some sound samples.