http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/16/beatbearing-project-weds-ball-bearings-elegance-to-make-jams/ Engadget Comments for BeatBearing project weds ball bearings, elegance to make jams http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/16/beatbearing-project-weds-ball-bearings-elegance-to-make-jams/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/16/beatbearing-project-weds-ball-bearings-elegance-to-make-jams/
I thought the idea of a MIDI device controlled by ball bearings would be awesome, until I saw that it's not using the...ballness of the bearings at all. Those things can be rolled, can't they? Yep. Rolled, bounced, spun, they can be rolled down sloped canals. If, say, each contact that they go into can be thought of as a plane with two axes, each axis controlling a different MIDI parameter, now it could get interesting. Have a tray like that, with a ball bearing in each one, and you can just roll them around in their spaces to control pitch, EQ, envelopes...any two elements at a time. But this offers no functionality that, say, FL or any software sequencer can't do much more easily.

Think of the ball bearings as relative to those antique ball mice, except you can control up to five mice with each finger!]]>Feb 25th 2008 12:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/16/beatbearing-project-weds-ball-bearings-elegance-to-make-jams/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/16/beatbearing-project-weds-ball-bearings-elegance-to-make-jams/Jan 16th 2008 3:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/16/beatbearing-project-weds-ball-bearings-elegance-to-make-jams/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/16/beatbearing-project-weds-ball-bearings-elegance-to-make-jams/Jan 16th 2008 3:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/16/beatbearing-project-weds-ball-bearings-elegance-to-make-jams/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/16/beatbearing-project-weds-ball-bearings-elegance-to-make-jams/on ToyRus very soon.
(and got off shelf because of safety hazard very soon)]]>Jan 16th 2008 3:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/16/beatbearing-project-weds-ball-bearings-elegance-to-make-jams/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/16/beatbearing-project-weds-ball-bearings-elegance-to-make-jams/
Smoke and Mirrors me thinks. (hope i'm wrong)]]>Jan 16th 2008 3:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/16/beatbearing-project-weds-ball-bearings-elegance-to-make-jams/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/16/beatbearing-project-weds-ball-bearings-elegance-to-make-jams/
http://img413.imageshack.us/img413/5939/beatbearingjl6.jpg]]>Jan 16th 2008 9:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/16/beatbearing-project-weds-ball-bearings-elegance-to-make-jams/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/16/beatbearing-project-weds-ball-bearings-elegance-to-make-jams/Jan 16th 2008 3:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/16/beatbearing-project-weds-ball-bearings-elegance-to-make-jams/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/16/beatbearing-project-weds-ball-bearings-elegance-to-make-jams/Jan 16th 2008 3:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/16/beatbearing-project-weds-ball-bearings-elegance-to-make-jams/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/16/beatbearing-project-weds-ball-bearings-elegance-to-make-jams/Jan 16th 2008 3:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/16/beatbearing-project-weds-ball-bearings-elegance-to-make-jams/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/16/beatbearing-project-weds-ball-bearings-elegance-to-make-jams/Jan 16th 2008 4:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/16/beatbearing-project-weds-ball-bearings-elegance-to-make-jams/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/16/beatbearing-project-weds-ball-bearings-elegance-to-make-jams/Jan 16th 2008 6:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/16/beatbearing-project-weds-ball-bearings-elegance-to-make-jams/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/16/beatbearing-project-weds-ball-bearings-elegance-to-make-jams/Jan 16th 2008 8:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/16/beatbearing-project-weds-ball-bearings-elegance-to-make-jams/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/16/beatbearing-project-weds-ball-bearings-elegance-to-make-jams/Jan 16th 2008 8:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/16/beatbearing-project-weds-ball-bearings-elegance-to-make-jams/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/16/beatbearing-project-weds-ball-bearings-elegance-to-make-jams/Jan 16th 2008 8:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/16/beatbearing-project-weds-ball-bearings-elegance-to-make-jams/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/16/beatbearing-project-weds-ball-bearings-elegance-to-make-jams/Jan 16th 2008 10:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/16/beatbearing-project-weds-ball-bearings-elegance-to-make-jams/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/16/beatbearing-project-weds-ball-bearings-elegance-to-make-jams/Jan 16th 2008 10:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/16/beatbearing-project-weds-ball-bearings-elegance-to-make-jams/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/16/beatbearing-project-weds-ball-bearings-elegance-to-make-jams/]]>Jan 16th 2008 4:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/16/beatbearing-project-weds-ball-bearings-elegance-to-make-jams/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/16/beatbearing-project-weds-ball-bearings-elegance-to-make-jams/Jan 16th 2008 6:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/16/beatbearing-project-weds-ball-bearings-elegance-to-make-jams/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/16/beatbearing-project-weds-ball-bearings-elegance-to-make-jams/Jan 17th 2008 8:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/16/beatbearing-project-weds-ball-bearings-elegance-to-make-jams/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/16/beatbearing-project-weds-ball-bearings-elegance-to-make-jams/Jan 22nd 2008 12:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/16/beatbearing-project-weds-ball-bearings-elegance-to-make-jams/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/16/beatbearing-project-weds-ball-bearings-elegance-to-make-jams/Jan 17th 2008 12:06PM