Little Boots Laser Harp

[shobley]

I just finished the laser harp controller for Little Boots in the UK
(www.littlebootsmusic.co.uk)






It's basically an ILDA controller and detector in one.

This is the first picture of her using it on stage in Leeds...



Now if only JMJ would let me build one for him...

[Jem]

Hi Steve

Nice

Are you building these commercially now?, if so, can we have an idea of price. PM me if you don't want to go public.

Did you get any further with the multi-colour one with modulation as you slide your hand up and down the beam?

Cheers

Jem

[shobley]

I'm still very much testing the water, but yes I have am making them - still one at time though - no mass production yet.

...and yes this one can work with RGB/RGY projectors, and produce custom color effects.

...the wiimote tracking works, but I still need to make a PCB and find a way of getting the sensors - other than wrenching them out of a wiimote

(Just to clear up any potential confusion - the sensor does *not* include the WiiMote part yet, I'm still working on it - but getting very close to a production board)

I'll PM you...

[andy_con]

i could be interested in purchasing a fully built one also

[Carl B]

I would be very interested as well. How much are we looking at for a complete ready to use controller and how is a note assign to a beam as I have Chronologie 3 and Oxygene 7 and the beam to note assignment differs between these two tracks.

Carl

[shobley]

The harp controller currently has 3 assignable banks of up to 10 notes per bank.

Another feature that I'm going to add is control of the second axis to produce a curved harp, or other 3d configurations of beams.

You can change bank with a footswitch - I'm currently toying with the idea of adding the rapid open/close effect that Jarre uses in his latest harp when changing banks.

Here are some movies of the harp in action:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L84q6pwLIAg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArPwxPxbEc0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zh18J8WWUU8

I'll PM you...

[Carl B]

If you search for "Littleboots 12.12.09 Earthquake" on Youtube you can see her using the harp at the beginning and at the end of the song.

Carl

[andy_con]

if your doing this for little boots does that mean your in the UK?

[soforene]

If you search for "Littleboots 12.12.09 Earthquake" on Youtube you can see her using the harp at the beginning and at the end of the song.

Still not got the hang of links yet, Carl?

[shobley]

I'm still based in the US - I had to work quite closely with the tour crew over Email/Skype etc. to get the project completed.

Youtube was useful as well...