Well, I had an interesting past week or so. I’ve had this VPS setup with 2Host for a few months now, and have been relatively happy with it (despite a few initial hiccups with bad OS images). Very cheap, and it has served my needs as a web server. All I have running on it [...]
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Blog Nuked
Server hickup, lost everything. Learn to backup. :P Actually, I have the database backed up as plaintext, and I figured it’d be easier to manually put everything back from the beginning. *sigh*
Panel Layout
After spending a few hours with Gimp, off and on, I have finished laying out the front panel. From afar, it looks kind of cobbled together and asymmetric, but I can live with that; after all, this was all afterthought, since I had originally planned and started drilling the panel two years ago with something [...]
Panel Progress
I hate wasting time, effort and money, but that doesn’t stop me from doing so. I finished laying out, drilling, sanding, and polishing the rest of the front panel for the synthesizer. I also started labeling it by using Gimp to write out and reverse my text on an overlay for some “clear” (eh, close [...]
Collatzian ChucKathon
Intrigued by a recent XKCD comic regarding the Collatz Sequence, I whipped up a fairly simple ChucK program that runs through the Collatz sequences of increasing odd starting points and assigns the raw number in each sequence as the frequency of an oscillator. I few spatial effects are there as well, to make it a [...]
ChucK – Differential Equation System Solver
For several weeks, I have been playing around with ChucK: a Strongly-timed, Concurrent, and On-the-fly Audio Programming Language. I have actually been using the software, off and on, for over two years, but only recently started to really use it in the ways I had always wanted to: algorithmically-produced music. My real dip into the [...]