I am Ashley Elsdon

someone who's doing some things

Tag: Electronics

I do like electronics, I’m not sure I understand a lot of it, but I do like it.

First ‘patch’ with molecule synth

Posted by on in Music, Tech

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Starting to try this out with something simple. The analogue into the speaker module controlled by the pressure sensor. Let’s see how it goes.

I don’t know if ‘patch’ is the right word for this though?

Considering a meeblip

Posted by on in Music

Having got a taste for this kind of thing from using my Shruthi-1 I’m now considering getting a meeblip, which looks like a lot of fun too. Initially I was looking at the meeblip micro, but as it’s out of stock for now I’ve moved on to the meeblip SE.

I even checked if there was a TouchOSC template available for meeblip. There is! So if I can control it using TouchOSC I can do a lot with it.

I may have talked myself around.

Bare Conductive Cards

Posted by on in Creative Process, Making things, Tech

I found this stuff at the V&A Digital Design Weekend. It’s great fun to use and the card kit is excellent. For £10 (I think) you get three cards and all the components to make them into little electronic greeting extravaganzas. What more could you want?

The actual conductive ink is sticky stuff and requires a little patience, but it’s worth it for the finished product.

Circuit disappointment

Posted by on in Events, Making things, Tech

I was able to go along to a workshop held by Technology will save us. A great little tech company with a fantastic ethos. The workshop was at Rough Trade East and was all about making a DIY synth. Something very close to my heart. Sadly, some of the components used in the kits didn’t work at all and so the whole thing ground to a halt about halfway through.

It was a real shame actually as it had all been making a lot of sense up to that point, and so I felt really quite disappointed by the event. I know that they’ll figure out a way of sorting things out, but it wasn’t a great experience sadly, especially as I’d been looking forward to it so much.