MakerCamp
Char’s Projects
Performance at Shenzhen Robot Theater
I collaborated with Loay Yari to create custom hardware for a performance at the Shenzhen Robot Theater.
When I send MIDI from my strudel.cc music, it lights up the neopixels on the headphones in real-time during the performance.
I bought cheap headphones from Huaqiangbei in Shenzhen and stuffed all the electronics into the right side of the earpiece.
The components include an MPU6050 3-axis IMU & RP2040 microcontroller, axis gyroscope and accelerometer, and a USB switch that makes the device appear as two USB devices on the computer.
The USB switch was super tiny and required careful soldering. I needed to preserve the microphone functionality to do live vocals during the performance.
Laser-Cut PCB Manufacturing
Using Cedric’s idea, I experimented with laser cutting to manufacture PCB boards. I made about five failed iterations before I finally tuned the laser parameters correctly.
From the PCB’s perspective, I made some tests for larger traces.
Here is the board with an ESP32 CAM and a TFT 2.4 inch screen validation!
