{"id":87614057,"date":"2006-05-17T22:50:28","date_gmt":"2006-05-18T06:50:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/?p=87614057"},"modified":"2006-05-17T22:50:33","modified_gmt":"2006-05-18T06:50:33","slug":"finalscratch-look-out-v-scratch-is-doing-it-with-a-20-optical-mouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/?p=87614057","title":{"rendered":"FinalScratch look out &#8211; V-Scratch is doing it with a $20 optical mouse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.we-make-money-not-art.com\" target=\"_blank\">We-Make-Money-Not-Art<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.we-make-money-not-art.com\/archives\/008513.php\" target=\"_blank\">This article<\/a> about Valerio Spolentini&#8217;s project, called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.v-scratch.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">V-Scratch<\/a> talks about this university student&#8217;s simple idea for video\/audio scratching using a very simple layout.<\/p>\n<p>A turntable with a record on it (any record with a paper label in the center, I assume).<br \/>\nA laptop (for the audio\/video sources).<br \/>\nAn audio mixer (but I&#8217;m not sure you&#8217;d REALLY need this)<br \/>\nSpeakers<br \/>\nLCD projector (if you&#8217;re doing video)<br \/>\nand here&#8217;s the kicker:<br \/>\nan <b>optical mouse attached to the turntable<\/b> in such a way that it &#8220;sees&#8221; the record turning underneath it<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.v-scratch.net\/technique.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.v-scratch.net\/media\/SCEMA%20TECHNIQUE.png\" title=\"\" border=\"0\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The only other setup I&#8217;ve seen before now that did anything even close to this was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.native-instruments.com\/index.php?id=fs2hardware_us\" target=\"_blank\">FinalScratch<\/a> by NativeInstruments, using specially crafted timecode-producing records.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.native-instruments.com\/index.php?id=fs2hardware_us\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.native-instruments.com\/uploads\/pics\/fs2new_setup.jpg\" title=\"\" border=\"0\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t wait until the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hackaday.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">HackADay<\/a> people get ahold of this, and figure out how to do it, or even better: the guy either makes this an open-source project, or sells it direct to users, &#8217;cause I&#8217;d flip him $50 for the software, if it works for mp3s and mixing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>via We-Make-Money-Not-Art This article about Valerio Spolentini&#8217;s project, called V-Scratch talks about this university student&#8217;s simple idea for video\/audio scratching using a very simple layout. A turntable with a record on it (any record with a paper label in the center, I assume). A laptop (for the audio\/video sources). An audio mixer (but I&#8217;m not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,8,3,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87614057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-hardware","category-places","category-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87614057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=87614057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87614057\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87614057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87614057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87614057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}