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My Christmas present (which I got early this year) was one of these. I didn't even install the software that came in the box, since I don't want to make music with it, I want to hack something. My goal last night was to get a light to turn on.
Sending MIDI messages is a lot harder than you'd think. There's no library for Ruby, the C library doesn't work on the mac (because one of its required utilities doesn't build, because Xcode changed how it does Java), the Java MIDI API doesn't work (with external devices, anyway). I finally found a language someone had made called ChucK that works perfectly.
So, at 3 AM, I snapped this.
I'm going to write a Ruby wrapper to encapsulate the Chuck stuff. I think I'm gonna call it the Piemaker.
Then I'm gonna teach it how to play the game it was clearly meant for
Sending MIDI messages is a lot harder than you'd think. There's no library for Ruby, the C library doesn't work on the mac (because one of its required utilities doesn't build, because Xcode changed how it does Java), the Java MIDI API doesn't work (with external devices, anyway). I finally found a language someone had made called ChucK that works perfectly.
So, at 3 AM, I snapped this.
I'm going to write a Ruby wrapper to encapsulate the Chuck stuff. I think I'm gonna call it the Piemaker.
Then I'm gonna teach it how to play the game it was clearly meant for
