This page highlights my skills in a number of areas, including electronics, audio engineering, prototyping, programming, development and collaboration. I’ve tried to provide a mix of older and newer projects, but it is safe to say I am always working on something!
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We Were All Born Naked
Tanner Bingaman worked with me in late 2018 and early 2019 on his album We Were All Born Naked. His project was the last full album project I recorded before moving to the Philadelphia area in 2019. The project was later released in 2020. Tanner is the real deal when it comes to authentic Americana…
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SCI-FI-LOPHONE
Enter the world of SCI-FI-LOPHONE, where music, noise and science come together to produce fun and unusual sound textures for all ages. Q: What is SCI-FI-LOPHONE*? A: SCI-FI-LOPHONE is a unique MIDI-controlled percussion instrument consisting of solenoids combined with traditional and non-traditional sound making objects. It’s part art installation, interactive science project, and part musical…
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YouTube Web Scraping in Python
Over the course of 2020 and 2021, I was not very consistent with posting new content to my Word Press site (the site you are reading now). I was very active on YouTube, with a number of live streams, web tutorials and audio-visual experiments, but a large number of them were not linked in any…
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Space Invaders!
I don’t really call myself a programmer… but I always seem to come back to programming as a skill that is good to have. In February of 2021 I was studying a variety of things related to graphics generation and came across Pygame. This was my first real exploration of the Pygame library. It was…
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Philly Maker Faire Podcast
Listen to the podcast just about anywhere! History In early 2021, Laura Chenault, the Marketing Director for the Philly Maker Faire, and Valerie Chikwendu, our volunteer coordinator, wanted to keep maker momentum through COVID, so we put together a podcast. What We Do The Philly Maker Faire Podcast celebrates the creators, builders, inventors, and artists…
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OpenBCI Revisited
Open BCI is an open source Brain Computer Interface project. Back in 2014, I supported one of their early Kickstarter programs and got one of the 8-bit EEG boards. After some rather discouraging initial results, and a long time away from the project, I have found some folks interested in the same applications of the…
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Collaboration with Breakfast
One fateful night in the early 90s, at an open mic in Bloomsburg, PA, I met Tom Dennehy. His mix of Dr. Demento-style originals and Weird Al Yankovic covers immediately endeared him to both me and, my future wife, Audra. Life was never the same after meeting Tom. His combination of humor, musical smarts, and…
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Teensy Audio Project Demo
This project dates back to when I was still living in Central PA. This sound sculpture combined hardware, software, sound design, and some light fabrication. Besides mounting everything on the board, I also made a custom circuit board to manage the Teensy connections. This turned out to be a collaboration of sorts, with my father…
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JDRenderEngine – Touchdesigner Custom Component
I came to Touchdesigner from timeline-based video editing in programs like iMovie, Adobe Premiere and Davinci Resolve. For a few years I also built patches in Magic Music Visualizer. I was always frustrated by the UI of iMovie and similar programs. I never found their UX very good coming from the audio world. I also…