sTunes: Music from your ShopBot
Overview...sTunes is a program that lets you create
musical Part Files that you can play on your ShopBot. It works by creating moves
of a specific pitch and duration by modifying the move speeds and distance that
the tool moves, varying the resonance of the stepper motors. It may not be all
that useful but it's sure fun to play with. You can see an example of a song
created with sTunes in the ShopBot birthday video..the file to play "Happy
Birthday" is included in the download.
Notes... None
Contact info...Bill Young
Download size...426 k zip file
Project Type...Program
Additional equipment/software required...Must have sound enabled on your
design computer to hear what you're "composing"
Special instructions...None, just unzip and run
Known Issues...On my computer at least the low notes play much quieter
than the high notes when I'm "composing". It doesn't effect how it plays on the
ShopBot but sometimes it makes it hard to tell if a note's playing when you're
using the keyboard.
Confidence...
Completeness...
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Confidence
is a measure of how far along a project
is in the opinion of the person that created it. If it only has 1 star then it's
very rough, more likely to not work than to work correctly. 4 stars means that
they think it's ready for prime time and just needs a little more feedback or
testing. A 5 means that it's all done...you won't see any "5 star" projects in
ShopBot Labs because at that point it's ready for release!
Completeness really goes hand in hand with Confidence and is the measure
of how complete they feel the Project download is. It could include important
things like if there are instructions or help files available, but also might
reflect if there are sample files or even simple things like a lack of icons or
graphics.