Here are several engineering projects on which I have worked or am currently
working. If you're looking for engineering reference material about PC
keyboards, embedded processors, and any of a number of things,
it's in here.
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Project
|
When
|
Description
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| Hacking the AudioTron
| 2001 |
Photos, commentary, and speculation about the VTB AudioTron network
MP3 device.
|
| Hacking the Mackie 8bus mixers
| 2000 |
Pinouts and projects for the Mackie 8bus series of mixers.
|
| TR-6006 Percussion Controller |
2000 |
The TR-6006 is a vintage-styled pattern sequencer intended for MIDI drums
and percussion.
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| Remote Shutter Release for DC290 |
2000 |
Describes how to construct a remote shutter release for the Kodak DC290
digital camera.
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| CAVE |
1999-2003 |
Automotive MP3 player project. Like all good projects, never finished.
Alternate, equally out-of-date site.
|
| Network Appliance Mods |
2000 |
Describes a series of modifications to a particular type of network
appliance.
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| Primate |
1999 |
Primate is a universal interface for APE/SIO2PC/1050-2-PC emulation software
for emulating Atari 8-bit hardware. (This takes you to my retrocomputing.org domain)
|
| Hacking the MOTU MTPII |
1999 |
Hacking the MOTU MTPII onto a PC without the PC ISA card.
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| MIDIbrick |
1999-present |
MIDIbrick is an 8051-based general purpose MIDI development platform.
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| HappyCart |
1998-1999 |
HappyCart is an Atari 2600 cartridge emulator that can play
2K/4K/8K/16K games. (This takes you to my retrocomputing.org domain)
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| x0x |
1998 |
x0x is a ADI DSP2181/68HC11-based hand-held sequencer/synthesizer.
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| DACS |
1996-1997 |
The Distributed Audio Control System is an automated audio mixing, cueing
and control system.
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| Speakers |
1996 |
Loudspeaker construction projects.
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| SMSurround |
1995 |
SMSurround is the predecessor to DACS, and was a simpler automated mixing
and cueing system for theatre audio.
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| Robotics |
1989-1993 |
A four year evolving project in which a complete robotic arm and vision
system were created.
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![[Tales from the Bench]](talesbench.jpg)