homemade controllers

[moodchannel]

figured I would share a couple of controllers I recently built.

this one is a "tabletar"... a guitar form with a wacom tablet and other goodies...

http://youtube.com/watch?v=_uxtndtLO0E

and here is a relatively simple one... an array of 5 IR "theremin" controllers...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ReC4epF35QA

both control max patches on my laptop.

[Guy Birkin]

Nice one. The theremin is lovely! The guitar looks a bit awkward - might it be easier to play on your lap? Funnily enough, I first read the name 'tabletar' as in 'table' (rather than 'tablet'), and I imagine that it might work nicely like a pedal steel mounted on a table, or even on the same board as the theremin (combining both controls at once!?).

[moodchannel]

thanks, guy!

I do play the tabletar on my lap sometimes.  what I really need is a strap...  though I've had it for a while... I haven't played with the IR sensors as much... mostly because I like the subtlety of the joysticks on the tabletar.