Zedomax Maker Faire 2007 Coverage – Midi Controller that looks cool – LivePAd

video://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qp6qD4mvfTw

Here’s Midi Controller “LivePAd” by Craig Dorety who is a musician, inventor, and a very smart (mechanical) engineer! He built this as his college project. (By the way, he went to UC Davis, where I went too!) Anyway, if you want to contact him to build you one of these or start a business with him, you can contact him at cdorety at gmail.com.

Custom-built from space-age plastics and psychedelic circuitry, this MIDI computer music controller for the 21st century allows the complete, dynamic control in a small guitar-like instrument.

It took 6 months of CAD design, some helpful design assistance and input from my friend Devin Becker and a lot of time nearly inside a nice Mori-Seiki CNC with some not-so-cheap, plastics. Many hours were spent with a soldering iron and experimenting with opamps. Now that I have started programming my own little micro controllers, I will be adding music and MIDI responsive lighting to the next incarnation of this invention.

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3 Responses to Zedomax Maker Faire 2007 Coverage – Midi Controller that looks cool – LivePAd

1. girrrrrrr2 says:

   August 23, 2007 at 5:44 pm

   wow.. a mini guitar???
2. Izl says:

   August 28, 2007 at 8:39 am

   I think so, girrr 😐
3. girrrrrrr2 says:

   August 28, 2007 at 2:44 pm

   … what… i was thinking you could make one… and if you are gonna put 3 r’s than just put all 7…