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Full-colour RGB monome clone (Trinome?)

JMG writes in -

Here it is, the first project that I designed and executed on my own. I'm thinking of calling it the Trinome, but that's still up in the air.

The monome is a gorgeous, minimalist, open-source light-and-button pad used primarily by musicians as a controller. The folks over at SparkFun Electronics, inspired by the monome, released their own button pads and circuit boards, only they designed theirs to be able to hold RGB LEDs. They made this nifty Tetris game with their parts. Looking at it, though, I noticed something: they only seemed to use a limited palette, in particular, they only appeared to have red, green, blue, cyan, magenta, yellow, and white, corresponding to channels being fully on or fully off. I wanted to see if I could get colour mixing, wherein channels were on partially in order to blend colours smoothly.

Full-colour RGB monome clone (Trinome?) - Link.

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Posted by: samurai1200 on January 22, 2008 at 1:32 PM

sick wit it! is it just me or is there no sound on the video?

looks gorgeous!

Posted by: nullobject on January 22, 2008 at 3:07 PM

Awesome looking project, but if you RTFA it's not exactly full-colour due to the limitations of the digital potentiometers they're using. Look forward to seeing this beast in it's full-colour glory!

Keep up the great work!

Posted by: julienb on July 28, 2008 at 12:26 AM

arduino-based monome clone OPEN SOURCE

my monome clone:
http://www.julienbayle.net/diy/LiveInterface/

this project is still work in progress as the target is a full RGB monome clone as JMG and other guys.

but my project will be FULL open source.
I'll give ALL as I began to.

cheers,
julienb

Posted by: julienb on July 28, 2008 at 12:33 AM

arduino-based monome clone

my monome clone:
http://www.julienbayle.net/diy/LiveInterface/

this project is still work in progress as the target is a full RGB monome clone as JMG and other guys.

but my project will be FULL open source.
I'll give ALL as I began to.

cheers,
julienb

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