I don't often update my tech stack in my life,
but in the last couple weeks a lot of change
happened.
Got a new card for my Nintendo DS.
I wasn't able to run UXN on my previous card and
finally got a new card which runs really nicely.
I installed UXN and linux on my NDS, a few emulators,
a media player. I would like to have a good terminal
on there too. I'll have to search more to see if there
is a solution ready to use, although using linux
on the NDS would resolve that issue, it's also
quite complex compared to simply have a terminal
emulator.
I got my Midi cables in, so I can now control
all my music setup from the octatrack. From my
2 mophos, I merge their output to input into
the OT, and the OT midi out goes trough a 4 split
to feed into the Korg Beat, and the 2 mopho. The
goal is to be able to make 64 beat sequence for the
drum machine and being able to record the midi
from my synth and play them back, like a sequencer.
The sequencer on the Mophos are terrible, which
is quite a drag. The end goal is that I can loop
an audio recording from one or 2 of the synth,
and then add on top of that a midi sequence that
can be lived tweaked directly on the synth, but
feed back directly in the OT. Giving me easily
4 layers of synth (bass, pads, chord, melody)
with the added 6 tracks of Korg Beats.
I got my loRa radio to be added in my
e-paper typewriter. Since my setup made of
a mech keyboard connected trough usb C to a
android e-paper tablet running termux, I can
also use the android app to run Meshtastic
to connect to the loRa radio. In a brave new
world that setup could be use as a terminal
that can connect to a mesh network wifi-to-wifi
and communicate as well as code, write and
create. A solar panel for charging would be
the last step in the setup.
I've started to re-install lucid.observer,
my project that is not getting much attention
these day. I am not sure how much energy and
time I can devote to build an online community
like that. So far it's been quite minimal, I
think I need to scale back a bit and maybe
simply starting with a private unix server
running a shared gopher access... I am unsure
of it all, as I don't want to create something
that breaks and then I don't have the time or
resource to fix it.
At the same time a friend of mine is starting
a collective of healer online. And I'm the one
who's building the structure for it. We'll be
attending a festival in August under their
'banner'. It's a interesting momentum and the
festival itself is another community of healer
who meets one a year 'offline'. We'll see
how much of that will end up merging.
I've hanged out with screwtape during his
show on Friday morning. Back into lambdamoo.
I've stared playing around in there and
enjoyed the little I've done and it gave me
a lot of ideas about how fun it can be
to create an interactive world just trough
text. I'm quite excited, and I'd love lambdamoo
to be a place where I spend more time
instead of my usual aimless browsing when
I'm procrastinating at work.
