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You know what that means. The election is over. Obama is our new president.

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




E3 Expo 2012 Recap


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
iPads on eBay

"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."

Congresswoman Ilhan Omar Knows Her Synths

This one was sent my way via ortho.

via @IlhanMN

"Just get me an ARP 2600 and I’ll be set"

Trip. I wonder if she knows about MATRIXSYNTH. Obama follows on Twitter. ;)

Obama Modular

via link

obama angst

via Baghead's sounds channel
"two Kjaerhaus Spectra soft synths one with AD replicant the other woth AD Dubstation against arturia moog modular low end woth Ableton reverb , all with a military drumbeat from Puremagnetik purplekit tweked with audio damage Automaton - not a finished song more of a mood for some one to add on to"

"I kind of thought it has a Twin Peaks feel to it of you remember that show , oh Lara where is the Log Lady???? if you can't tell I'm worried that sleeze McCain is gonna win, what a tragedy if that occurs... also because of the abrupt ending it works better as a loop , but then maybe that is part of the angst, i.e an abrupt ending"
BTW, what's up with Texas?

Obama's inauguration speech - live mashup

YouTube via timexile. It does go somewhere.
"Most significant international events don't have a pre-warning but this one did, so I thought I'd take the opportunity to mash it up live with my live remix/mashup/improv machine which I made. It's all improvised using the BBC world service live web stream. Unfortunately the web stream flaked out at the beginning of his speech so I had to start part way in."