Thursday, December 28, 2006
Limor Fried and her x0xb0x Synthesizer
Revver via thewhyy27. BTW, if the video skips too much, hit play, then pause and wait for some of it to load before starting. I'm finding this to be the case with Revver videos so far.
"Limor Fried and her x0xb0x Synthesizer - a conversation between hacker/artist Limor Fried ("Lady Ada") and Joi Ito with Phil Torrone of Make Magazine. Fried talks about her popular x0xb0x synthesizer kits, and the increasing elaborate revisioning of the product that's coming from her users. With Ito and Torrone, she proposes that this is a promising model for "open source physical objects" - extending the permitted hackability of software to hardware. This is an interview from South by Southwest: Interactive, in March 2006; the camera was held by Merci Hammon, the editor was Justin Hall, and Joi Ito was the executive producer - this is part of a series of videos released online from that event under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 license."
Love the Open Source reference. If you think about it, "open source physical objects" goes back to... well, back to the beginning of time. Utensils anyone?
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Funny that she said half the customers build them. I know two people with x0xs... one got built, one sits in a box.
ReplyDeleteSomebody has to say it...
ReplyDeletechiX0r5 are hott!!
While she's talented, I don't think I could stand being near her.
ReplyDeleteIs she from California?
I want that state to sink into the sea.
Deep into the sea.
And that guy ot her right is very... um... yeah....
Hey I've got two x0xb0xes, and one is built #150 (and it was one of my very early posts to Matrix - first one with a picture I think ...see http://matrixsynth.blogspot.com/2006/04/x0xb0x-150.html )
ReplyDeleteand the second one sits in its box waiting for a rainy stretch...they are very nice units and a no-brainer kit but somewhat tedious to piece together, if you do get one be sure to pay the $25 upgrade for the pre-soldered USB connector, surface mount components are a real bitch ...best news is they are a lot cheaper than a real 303 ......My only major gripe is that I hope somebody upgrades the software used to edit it, it's definitely a 1.0 release