Sphero Specdrums Lets You Turn Color Into Music

Published on Feb 1, 2019 Synthtopia

"At the 2019 NAMM Show, Sphero introduced Specdrums - a new type of wireless music controller that turns color into sound."

Curious how sensitive it is - how many gradients it is capable of sensing. It it were fully programmable it could be interesting. I'm also curious how sensitive it would be to light - would brighter lighting change the perceived color and trigger the wrong thing? Makes me think of a realtime controller for ANS and Oramics type optical synthesis. A light sensitive controller capable of sensing color in addition to light. Could be interesting if applied right.

nils +sphero light/control test

Published on Apr 4, 2013

"This is a test using sphero with nils. It is also using audiobus connecting sinusoid as an input to nils. Sphero streams gyroscope data to nils, which is used to control the sample rate (or any other 3 parameters the user chooses) and nils sends sound meter data to sphero, to control its light. Coming soon. I am pretty excited anyway...

Nils and sinusoid: http://www.humbletune.com/
Sphero: http://www.gosphero.com/
Audiobus: http://www.audiob.us/"

iTunes:
nils - Erik Sigth
Audiobus - A Tasty Pixel
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shapesynth +sphero on the bus

Published on Feb 10, 2013 humbletune·52 videos

"This shows shapesynth with sphere now supporting Audiobus (http://audiob.us) running through nils (beta version). Nils has been submitted and should be available very soon.

shapesynth: http://www.humbletune.com/shapesynth/
sphero: http://www.gosphero.com/
audiobus: http://www.audiob.us/"

iTunes:
shapesynth - Erik Sigth
Audiobus - A Tasty Pixel

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Shapesynth +Sphero NEW Controls test

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YouTube Published on Jun 26, 2012 by humbletune

"Testing out some code having sphero control arpeggio, delay and the filter in shape synth."

iTunes:
shapesynth - Erik Sigth
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Sphero Orb Controller for Android & iOS

Note: Auction links are affiliate links for which the site may be compensated. "How much tech can you pack in a 3 inch sphere? Start with a sensor network – multi-axis rate gyro and accelerometer – fused together with the same kind of math that took Apollo to the Moon. Power it with lithium polymer batteries that are inductively recharged through the shell and add a Bluetooth-based command and control data link. Finally, mix in over-the-air firmware updates and internally sandboxed language extensions and you have a true robot that is an intelligent component of a smartphone app-based gaming, learning, and human-machine interaction system. Driving Sphero from the central app is just the start. An open API for iOS and Android invites developers around the world to dive right in…Oh, and Sphero is just fun."

And you can roll it around like the president:


President Obama Drives Sphero the Robotic Ball




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Accelerometer Frequency Modulation (Shapesynth + Sphero)
YouTube Published on Mar 6, 2012 by humbletune

"Just some small testing of new shapesynth code. The frequency modulation can either be controlled by the iDevice built in accelerometer or by amazing sphere.

Shapesynth: http://www.humbletune.com/shapesynth/
Sphero: http://www.gosphero.com"

iTunes:
shapesynth - Erik Sigth
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"Shape is a polyphonic synthesiser allowing the user to draw the shape of the oscillator wave form. The positive side of the oscillation is represented by 32 blocks and the negative side is its mirror, generating all sorts of possible raw retroish sounds. Shape is best experienced with akai synthstation 25 or any other midi device.

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+++ 16 voices.
+++ Attack.
+++ Decay.
+++ LFO envelope.
+++ Delay.
+++ Akai synthstation 25 compatible.
+++ On screen 25 key stylophone style keyboard.
+++ Arpeggio.
+++ Finite inpulse respons pong filter.
+++ sequencer.
+++ sampler.
+++ coreMIDI (usb and network).
+++ MAPI audio copy.
+++ Soundcloud upload."