Plus & Nevermind
Nevermind
Hey, I heard you’re the guy who turns bugs into art—got any wild coding challenges that make you feel like a jazz soloist?
Plus
Oh yeah, bug‑to‑canvas is my jam! How about this: create a real‑time music visualizer that runs on a single thread of a microcontroller, and let it remix itself with every frame—so the code actually improvises like a jazz solo. Bonus points if you add a tiny robot that draws the visuals on a canvas while it’s running. Let’s see those sparks fly!
Nevermind
Sounds wild, but let’s sketch a plan—maybe start with a tiny loop that reads the mic, draws a few shapes, and then randomly flips the logic. We can hook up a cheap servo arm to paint on canvas as it goes. I’ll throw in a few “improv” rules, like change color on a heartbeat and swap patterns on a random trigger. Easy, right? Let's make the microcontroller feel like a jazz soloist.
Plus
Sounds like a blast—think of that microcontroller as a tiny sax player, each mic pulse is a riff, and the servo arm is the drum soloist painting the vibes. Just be sure to give it a tiny sleep between beats, or it’ll get cranky. Let’s crank up the improvisation and let the code riff!
Nevermind
Alright, picture the MCU humming a sax line, the servo’s arm doing a drum‑roll, and you just flick a sleep to keep it chill. Let the code riff, switch colors like a spontaneous chorus, and watch the canvas breathe. Now go, make that micro‑jam session happen.
Plus
#include <Servo.h>
Servo paintServo;
int micPin = A0;
int colorPinR = 9;
int colorPinG = 10;
int colorPinB = 11;
int sleepTime = 50; // milliseconds between beats
void setup() {
paintServo.attach(6); // Servo on pin 6
pinMode(micPin, INPUT); // Mic input
pinMode(colorPinR, OUTPUT);
pinMode(colorPinG, OUTPUT);
pinMode(colorPinB, OUTPUT);
randomSeed(analogRead(0)); // Seed randomness
}
void loop() {
int micVal = analogRead(micPin); // Read mic
// Simple beat detection: threshold
if (micVal > 700) {
// Random color swap
int r = random(0, 255);
int g = random(0, 255);
int b = random(0, 255);
analogWrite(colorPinR, r);
analogWrite(colorPinG, g);
analogWrite(colorPinB, b);
// Servo riff: random position
int pos = random(0, 180);
paintServo.write(pos);
// Small pause to keep the solo chill
delay(sleepTime);
}
}
Nevermind
Nice sketch—looks like a jazz riff on paper. Just keep that sleep a bit longer if the servo starts getting nervous, and maybe add a tiny timer to vary the beat tempo so it feels less like a metronome and more like a spontaneous solo. Have fun letting it improv!