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Re: Show HN: Haxophone

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Post by djmips »

skybrian wrote: post #45
squarefoot wrote: post #11

You can overcome the RPi scarcity by migrating the code to the Teensy platform, which aside being cheaper and less power hungry than the 2,3,4 RPi, is a lot cheaper and more easily available. Not an easy task since there's no Linux under the hood, but there are some excellent audio/midi libraries to help. They already built commercial-level synthesizers with it. By combining the breath sensor data with other pressure…

I like Teensy but it looks like their boards are either low-inventory or out of stock too: https://www.pjrc.com/store/teensy41.html

Says one SKU of 4.1 is available with limit of 5 per person

And meanwhile the 4.0 is in stock in all SKUs with limit of 20! per person. https://www.pjrc.com/store/teensy40.html

This is pretty available. Especially compared to Pi

Re: Show HN: Haxophone

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Post by squarefoot »

djmips wrote: post #61
skybrian wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I like Teensy but it looks like their boards are either low-inventory or out of stock too: https://www.pjrc.com/store/teensy41.html

Says one SKU of 4.1 is available with limit of 5 per person And meanwhile the 4.0 is in stock in all SKUs with limit of 20! per person. https://www.pjrc.com/store/teensy40.html This is pretty available. Especially compared to Pi

Also, Mouser expects 712 in stock within one week.

https://www.mouser.com/ProductDetail/SparkFun/DEV-16771?qs=v...

Re: Show HN: Haxophone

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Post by slmjkdbtl »

This is so cool! Interesting you can use normal mouthpieces. Curious how the sound works, does the reed need to vibrate like a real saxophone, or you just need to blow into it and some air pressure sensor picks up (forgive me I have no hardware knowledge)?

Re: Show HN: Haxophone

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Post by BHSPitMonkey »

rudolfwinestock wrote: post #49

Here are other innovative electronic instruments. The Eigenharp: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MR5qBtPRrM The Artiphon Instrument1: https://artiphon.com/pages/instrument1 The Linnstrument: https://www.rogerlinndesign.com/linnstrument

The Commodordion (which also made the HN rounds recently): https://linusakesson.net/commodordion/index.php

Re: Show HN: Haxophone

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Post by flipcoder »

rudolfwinestock wrote: post #49

Here are other innovative electronic instruments. The Eigenharp: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MR5qBtPRrM The Artiphon Instrument1: https://artiphon.com/pages/instrument1 The Linnstrument: https://www.rogerlinndesign.com/linnstrument

I own a LinnStrument and it's fantastic. I created a custom note layout for it to make it easier to play: https://github.com/flipcoder/linnstrument-wholetone. The firmware is also open source. It feels like the Linux of instruments.

Re: Show HN: Haxophone

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Post by javier_cardona »

slmjkdbtl wrote: post #66

This is so cool! Interesting you can use normal mouthpieces. Curious how the sound works, does the reed need to vibrate like a real saxophone, or you just need to blow into it and some air pressure sensor picks up (forgive me I have no hardware knowledge)?

No the reed does not vibrate. It's there to restrict the airflow and to provide a similar embouchure to a real sax. Some more details here: https://github.com/jcard0na/haxo-hw/blob/main/docs/assembly....
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