I searched long for a system I can build upon my musical and artistic artwork - and I am thankful that Thorsten opened this wonderful project and community to us ;)

My real name is Michael Markert and I live in Nuremberg, Germany. I studied Communications-Design focused on Multimedia and am currently doing a postgraduated diploma at the College of Fine Arts in Nuremberg (Public Arts, Intermedia). The focus of my work and research is the development of intuitive interactive interfaces for harmonized sensoric music.

Visit my Blog audiocommander.de and my Band zeichensprecher.de.

I will use this page to document what I’ve done with MIOS and MBHP so far:

m5_sensorizer sensorizes up to 8 sensors and interpolates its AIN-readings. The main target of this application are sensoric devices delivering not exactly 0 - 5 V, like pressure-, distance-, resistor-based sensors or softPots.

Description, Pictures, Manual and Application-Downloads: ACSensorizer

This is a work in progress; I want to shift my OSX-Software complete to the MBHP Platform, it consists of Sensoring, Synchronizing, Harmonizing.
Currently the Synchronizer is just helping to prevent a MidiClock Dropout Bug in my Host Software, it receives the 96 clocks and shows it as 1 bar. Each bar a “CONTINUE” signal is sent.

Hardware:

• 1 Core
• 1 LCD

Software:

• m5 sync 0.1a –– <pm> me in the forum.
  

Software will be released when it makes sense to be released. Pre-Release versions are available if you PM me.

This is a work in progress; I want to shift my OSX-Software complete to the MBHP Platform, it consists of Sensoring, Synchronizing, Harmonizing.

(2 be done...)

Body-Contact-Music: You need to use the arm-wrists or touch a terminal with your hand. Two persons are needed minimum. If these persons touch each other, their skin-contact will be translated to music.
I’ve written a MIOS-based custom application for Kontaktstation 2.0: sensorizer.
I will release the sensorizer code as soon as I’ve implemented a working bankstick support.

Images and Descriptions (currently only german, english translation will follow soon):
http://www.audiocommander.de/blog/?p=54

Image-Gallery: http://www.audiocommander.de/picBrowser/picBrowser.php?go=galleries/060527_kontaktstation_2_0

(The fluorescent bulb isn’t there anymore, I added an animated LED-Matrix as backlight, because 1) it looks nicer :) and 2) the metal-grid and the bulb works like an inductive grid to the skin-resistance sensor. That’s a nice method for making music too, but actually not what I intended ;D

Well, the box is no beauty, but as noone else sees it, the Interface is made out of parts lying around in my home-laboratory :)

Hardware:

• 1 Core
• 1 LCD
• 1 DOUT
• 4 Pots, 2 Buttons

Software:

• Sensorizer 0.1: Sensorizer is currently beeing re-written completely because it produced some severe overflows. I’m having also issues with unpredictable resets caused by something related to the DOUT-module... moreover I would never again use Pots in relation with sensors, they are just too much jittering and therefore set some values if not touched at all! The next sensorizer is using 8 Encoders and seems to work very well so far...

Software will be released when it makes sense to be released. Pre-Release versions are available if you PM me.

You can find evering about the SpeakJet MBHP-Project here: midibox_speakjet

I did some documentation for that (the main sj-page could be more up-to-date!):
Breadboard Construction Tutorial
SpeakJet Control Overview (SCP and MSA Control Overview)
SpeakJet Definition List (SCP and MSA Command #defines)

Simulator / Debugger for MIOS Applications. Has it’s own page: ACSim

I’ve done some documentation stuff, here are the sources, if they ever need to be edited:

http://www.audiocommander.de/downloads/midibox/MIOS_Overview.ai.tgz