Forbidden Planet “Krell” Display – MIDI CC Controller – Part 2

This revisits my Forbidden Planet “Krell” Display – MIDI CC Controller using my Forbidden Planet “Krell” Display PCB with a Waveshare RP2040 to create more of a "all in one" device. Warning! I strongly recommend using old or second hand equipment for your experiments. I am not responsible for any damage to expensive instruments! If you … Continue reading Forbidden Planet “Krell” Display – MIDI CC Controller – Part 2 →

Forbidden Planet “Krell” Display EuroRack Module

This project uses my Forbidden Planet “Krell” Display and the Forbidden Planet “Krell” Display PCB Design but with some slight variations that means it could be EuroRack mounted with a control voltage (CV) input. This is a DIY module only for use in my own DIY system. Do NOT use this alongside expensive modules in an … Continue reading Forbidden Planet “Krell” Display EuroRack Module →

Waveshare Zero, Pimoroni Tiny, and Neopixels

I want to revisit my Forbidden Planet “Krell” Display looking at an alternative way to do the electronics. In particular, I'm looking at how I might embed a microcontroller in each display. This post is a short diversion into the world of some Waveshare "Zero" format devices and a bit of background on driving programmable … Continue reading Waveshare Zero, Pimoroni Tiny, and Neopixels →

Forbidden Planet “Krell” Display – MIDI CC Controller

This takes my Forbidden Planet “Krell” Display and adds some potentiometers to turn it into a MIDI CC message controller. Forbidden Planet “Krell” Display – MIDI CC Controller – Part 2 https://makertube.net/w/vz9RucdW1oi2XzAqPBa96g Warning! I strongly recommend using old or second hand equipment for your experiments. I am not responsible for any damage to expensive instruments! If … Continue reading Forbidden Planet “Krell” Display – MIDI CC Controller →

Forbidden Planet “Krell” Display – MIDI Notes – Part 2

As I mentioned in Forbidden Planet “Krell” Display – MIDI Notes I'm building a simple (in function, not in execution it would seem) MIDI note display out of my Forbidden Planet “Krell” Display. The first attempt showed there is potential, but I was rapidly reaching the limits of what an Arduino could do for me using … Continue reading Forbidden Planet “Krell” Display – MIDI Notes – Part 2 →

Forbidden Planet “Krell” Display – MIDI Notes

This is my first attempt at some kind of MIDI related visualisation for my Forbidden Planet “Krell” Display. I thought I'd start easy and simply map MIDI notes onto the segments and create a simple display. That turned out to be an awful lot more involved than I imagined... In fact, this is quite sub-optimal … Continue reading Forbidden Planet “Krell” Display – MIDI Notes →

Forbidden Planet “Krell” Display

If you're not familiar with The Forbidden Planet, then it is an iconic 1956 Sci-Fi movie with an absolutely ground-breaking soundtrack of "Electronic Tonalities" by Bebe and Louis Barron. In one scene, when the humans visit an alien (the "Krell") science lab there is a large set of display dials around the room that logarithmically … Continue reading Forbidden Planet “Krell” Display →

Pico Dual-core MIDI Visualisations

I started this project as I had just bought two new toys from The Pi-Hut: Waveshare RGB Full-colour 16x10 LED Matrix Panel Waveshare 4-Digit 8-Segment Display Module My initial thinking was to re-run the Pico Unicorn MIDI Visualiser and the Arduino MIDI 7 Segment Controller with these new devices and a Pico. But whilst playing around, I … Continue reading Pico Dual-core MIDI Visualisations →

Arduino MIDI LED Step Sequencer with MCP3008

Having now experimented with an SPI eight-way analog to digital converter in the shape of the MCP3008, I wanted to build a step sequencer where the type of analog input was configurable. This project allows you to choose between the following options for controller the steps of the sequencer: The native analog inputs on the … Continue reading Arduino MIDI LED Step Sequencer with MCP3008 →

Arduino MIDI Rotary Encoder Multi-Track Step Sequencer

Now I have the option for multiple colours for my step sequencer displays, I thought it might be interesting to start experimenting with a "multi-track" step sequencer. https://youtu.be/oQc1IVoJLeQ Warning! I strongly recommend using old or second hand equipment for your experiments. I am not responsible for any damage to expensive instruments! These are the key … Continue reading Arduino MIDI Rotary Encoder Multi-Track Step Sequencer →