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Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?

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Soundslice ( http://www.soundslice.com/ ) -- animated guitar tabs / sheet music. Demo: http://www.soundslice.com/tabs/5680/bohemian-rhapsody-for-so... It's cool because: * The state of the art in guitar tabs is horrible ASCII crap (example: http://tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/e/eagles/hotel_california_ta... ). Soundslice is a 1000x improvement. * It solves a key problem for musicians, which is: when you're learning a new…

Holy cow. Excellent work.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?

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Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?

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i'm developing a mobile web interface & a SaaS architecture for my buddy's greenhouse & hydroponics controller business [1]. the backend comm is MODBUS/TCP (ethernet) or MODBUS/RTU (serial). he's currently in Long Beach at the Maximum Yield expo showing off the early alpha I ummm, "polished off" at 4am last night :) [2] it's cool because his customers and oems have been hounding him for some time for an Android and i…

Is there any wireless communication? I've been building a similar pH monitor using XBee communication. If your buddy would like to someone else to work with, I've been doing this in my free time.

the controllers, the heart of which are industrial PLCs, do have ethernet modules but no wifi since the reliability is critical in automation. however with a wifi router and some quick config, you can get this fairly easily, assuming the client talks modbus/tcp and knows how to query the controller's register maps.

i'm working on a plan to replace the ethernet module with a BeagleBone Black + Arch and a nodjs-based tcp->serial modbus proxy. lots to do, especially when you also have a 9-5 :)

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?

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X-Locks: http://x.lock.gd I'm trying to restore as many of the security-related patents that were lost in the patent office fire of 1836, and tell the stories of their creators. We've had some early successes and intend to reproduce as many of the locks as possible for a potential physical exhibition.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?

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post #73

Soundslice ( http://www.soundslice.com/ ) -- animated guitar tabs / sheet music. Demo: http://www.soundslice.com/tabs/5680/bohemian-rhapsody-for-so... It's cool because: * The state of the art in guitar tabs is horrible ASCII crap (example: http://tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/e/eagles/hotel_california_ta... ). Soundslice is a 1000x improvement. * It solves a key problem for musicians, which is: when you're learning a new…

One of the things I enjoy about traditional tabs, though, is that I can sit down and review them at my own pace. In your demo, I didn't see a way to view the entire tab at once. Also with ASCII tabs, I can repeat a section over and over at the speed I want.

I've played with Rocksmith, which is a video game similar to Soundslice, and it has the same drawbacks for me. It's really, really hard to play a song when you're seeing the tabs for the first time as you're performing it.

Is there a way in Soundslice to do an A-B repeat of a section, or view the entirety of the tab at once?

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?

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I'm working on https://mytraining.pro/

It's cool because it's one of the few brazilians startups that have a really unique proposition and are aiming high (instead of just copycating a proven american startup to serve the local market - that's too lazy for us).

It's a fitness app and social network by the way.

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