TENORI-ON: Playing Sound and Ambient Light Patterns
Tenori-On is great LED based novel personal digital instrument for playing sound and ambient light patterns developed by Toshio Iwai.
It is operated by touching 16×16 LED switches. You could think of them as musical keyboards that respond to the subtlety of your finger touch by emitting light waves, creating afterglow, and making soothing sound sequences. The instrument knows how long and from which direction the player touches each LED switch as well as the tilt angle. ITRON is used as the computational engine that handles complex processing in real time. It has a jog dial, LCD display, hi-quality stereo speakers, and four function switches in the frame. On the back side of the device are additional 16×16 LEDs that allow audience to see the light patterns as well. Multiple TENORI-ON devices can be connected for collaborative sessions and exchanging songs.
Interface:
The Instrument contains acceleration sensors. The software can calculate direction of finger movement.
It has two built in speakers, a clear button, 12 function buttons on the outside. Small LCD display. Volume control and headphone output. The 16×16 LED matrix on the rear side acts a display only (not input).
Multi-user:
Tenori-On uses the Midi protocol and can communicate with other Tenori-On, synchronizing them. Remote mode allows you to control Tenori-On from a PC or another Midi instrument.
Don’t miss to check this video & see some photos here
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TILETOY - Modular LED Electronic Game Prototype
TileToy is a modular, electronic game prototype for tangible LED game tiles. TileToy brings the flexibility inherent in digital software to a physical tile that people can touch and interact with. By arranging the electronic tiles, players can engage themselves in various kinds of game play, ranging from fast-paced arcade style games to puzzle an learning games.
The tiles are plastic cases approximately 2″ square. The main inspiration for the look and feel comes from the heyday of the LED, when plastic hand-held games ruled the gaming world. This retro-look is fused with a more modern minimal design. The minimalism enhances the magic of cordless boxes that simply communicate with each other. In TileToy, technology is sealed within the design. The interaction is based on tactile experience where no user manual is needed.
The re-programmable and constantly updated graphical information on each tile is displayed with a LED matrix system. The screen displaying the information is an endlessly versatile surface for updated visual communication. Each tile is controlled individually and can be used to transmit information on its own or in groups of several tiles. The assembled tiles transmit wirelessly their individual position in relation to each other and based on that changing information, a central computer, or a dedicated tile runs the different applications.
more about tiletoy: trnd blog, Provision, Castrider
Embedded Systems Conference in San Jose
Spark Fun refer abou great new toy at Embedded Systems Conference in San Jose. Many fun, many new and upcoming products and many very cool customers.
The LED Light Bar is a pre-packaged strip of 3 high-output LEDs powered by 12VDC. We don’t have specifics on the output luminocity, but take a look at the example GPS Wall Clock project to get an idea. Each unit comes with a fully assembled and tested PCB with current limiting resistors, reverse protection diodes, a wall-mount holder (backed with double-stick tape), and a connection cable. Each LED Light Bar absorbs approx. 30mA @ 12V.
And There is one more great toy for LED matrix geeks.
Triple Color LED Matrix! This large matrix has 64 Ultra Bright-Red, 64 Ultra Bright-Green, and 64 Ultra Bright-Blue individual LEDs built into one common cathode housing. It’s a monster to control, but just imagine what kind of colors you could produce by mixing!
via Makezine
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