During my first researches on the curltable I thought it would be nice to have some functions controlled by external elements such as potentiometers, buttons or sliders. So I gave it a try and used my Arduino and the serialPort class for communication to the board. What I tried was to control the tempo of an audio track by a potentiometer.

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For the first time the VFAI announced that the best thesis for bachelor and master students will be honored this year. The Curltable was nominated at my faculty at University of Applied Science Erfurt. Unexpectedly my thesis won and I recieved some cash which was luckily more than I payed for the printing of it.

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This is hopefully one of many posts about my ongoing work for the Curltable. You may ask what exactly the curltable is? Well it’s basically another approach on integrating digital music into a dj mix. There are already several other approaches out there which work fine for most people. What I tried to accomplish with this software is to simplify the mixing with digital music and to share a solution that is affordable.

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I was working lately on a simple peace of program to control my Nikon D40 by a PC. This little app communicates through my Arduino board with the camera. To get my d40 to capture something I used a bit of code from Gustav von Roth which can be found here. This Code sends a signal over an IR Led to generate time lapse effects. An example is shown below.

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