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Plain Barre Chord in Open Tunings illustrated by Son House

The only fretted chords in this classic Son House bottleneck blues are barres with a 7th added on the high string.

G Major
C Major
D Major

Workflows

I use Drupal to share information in a variety of forms without the arbitrary size constraints of conventional hosting providers such as flickr. 

Freed Family 2009

College of Marin, California

Arduino sketch for high frequency precision sine wave tone sound synthesis

This table-based digital audio oscillator implementation illustrates a few useful techniques on 8-bit microprocessors such as the Atmel parts supported by the Arduino/Wiring IDE. A timer is used to establish the sample rate clock and PWM is used to output an 8-bit signal. Human hearing has impressive frequency precision so accumulation is done on 32-bit integers. The code is a lesson in how to used fixed point representations and careful sizing of tables as powers of 2. This reduces the computational cost of the inner loop of the oscillator to a single 8-bit multiply, table lookup and

e-textile Interactive Demonstration at Maker Faire 2007

My table at Maker Faire 2007 including my first e-textile work with peizoresistive fabric, and my duotouch pad and floor sensors.

In 2016 I made the video below of a tear-down of those e-textiles with Hannah Perner Wilson.

Our Maker Faire table also include some great interactive demos whipped together by Andy Schmeder.

Michael Zbyszynski dropped in and talked about his Ikea bowl speakers.

It was great that Dan Overholt was nearby demonstrating his e-field sensor array.