I've been insanely busy, but now I'm finally starting to have some time again. Since my last post I have returned to Newfoundland, gone through another term of school (including 3 design projects), had a close uncle pass away, recorded an album and started a new work term at Avalon Microelectronics. My work term at EA went really well. NFS: World is now in beta testing which you can apply for here. That's it for now. I'll probably make some posts about the projects I worked on last term and the upcoming album soon.
As a project for term 1 (Winter 2008) of the engineering program we had to design a product to solve a problem- any problem. Many members of my group were musicians, so we set out to design a device that would turn sheet music without the musician having to take their hands off their instrument. We came up with an incredible number of ideas and eventually settled on a design which involved an electromagnet(solenoid), a rotating arm, an Arduino microcontroller and a foot pedal. Paper clips would be placed on each page to turn through before operation. Pushing the button on the foot pedal would cause the solenoid to turn on (grabbing the next paper clip), rotate the arm (turning the page), deactivate the solenoid (letting go of the page) and turn the arm back. This worked fairly well, but occasionally multiple pages would get turned. To prevent this we added a servo motor and an arm to the bottom of the device. This would hold the pages down when necessary.
One on Twoism is a compilation series of electronic/ambient music composed by the members of Twoism.org. The project is organized and mixed by Grim on Mbient (Robin Temming). This year I decided to help build the microsite for the third installment of the compilation: One on Twoism Volume 3. I initially came up with an idea in Photoshop involving a page and cover from an old book. I sent the idea off to Joseph Bastardo- the talented guy who designed the album artwork. He made some awesome additions to the design, meshing it much more with the album art. I cut the design up and made it into an actual site using HTML/CSS/PHP and then it went online last saturday.
I didn't have a chance to submit any music to the compilation this time around, but I did have a song included on volume 2.
