Flash piep

June 25th, 2007 by Amazone

A while ago I celebrated my umptienth birthday and my house was filled with family and friends from afar and close.

From Ikiro I got two sets of flashing bicycleledlights and Beneger showed up with a so called vosim. For those of you who ever met him: he often brings something along with him that makes sound. (From now on that will be Balou). And then there was Choco who took a video of the bleep thingie.

This bleeping apparatus is an optically controllable vosim, a voice simulator, a simplistical optical vocal chord simulator.

The vosim looks like a lolbak but is really intended to be a musical instrument, an advanced application of oscillator sync. What that means exactly, I don’t know, being a real alpha, but it has to do something with converting light pulses into soundwaves. So the optical input is transformed into a simulation of the voice.
You see? This serious digital ernst.

The insides of the box are (kinda) connected like this:

Beneger built it all by himself, from scratch.

“From a musical point of view I like instruments that hover between electronics and voices. Thats why I made a vosim in a simple way. The sensors were bought by a friend of mine. I found the casing. The precision sawing took most of my time. Drilling has to be done slowly in metal. A Dremel doesn’t do the job, so I drill by hand. First little holes and then widening the [s]goatse[/s] gap. The making of a fitting rubber inside in the flight case took up a lot of time too. That one didn’t turn out to be very crafty, but quite safe”.

A really ambachtelijk gefixte thingie, and so lovely a thingie at it, too!

So, to continue the merelroze, we freaked around with the gadget a little, until I got the idea to use Ikiro’s gifts as a stimulus for the object. And whooh00t, did we get a feedback!

This is a communal post, made together with Choco and Beneger and ofFffff course wouldn’t have existed without the gifts of ikiro and love of farquaad /Oscar winner modus.