👯 IN PERSON - Make your own musical instruments with Python and Pure Data

Making music is great fun. Making music using your hardware and software smarts is even more fun.

This session shows how to create MIDI devices from cheap as chips Raspberry PI PICO devices and connect them to a Raspberry PI based sound generator powered by the Pure Data graphical programming language.

You'll learn about Python on PICO, how MIDI (musical instrument digital interface) moves music around and how to create Pure Data patches containing synthesizers and samples. There'll be lots of demos, including a mini concert featuring the world-famous PICO MIDI Cheesebox keyboard and Crackers MIDI controller.

Speaker

Rob Miles spent over 30 years teaching programming to a succession of students at the University of Hull in the UK. He’s a Microsoft MVP with a passion for programming, C# and creating new things.

He's written books about embedded development, game creation and programming and is the author of the world famous (in his world) "C# Yellow Book".

Venue

This meeting is at AutoTrader; they are in the office block in the square opposite HOME theatre on the corner of Whitworth Street West and Medlock Street. It's roughly halfway between Oxford Road and Deansgate railway stations and is a short walk from Deansgate-Castlefield tram stop. The building has a Pizza Express restaurant outside.

There will be someone in the foyer who will sign you in and then tell you how to find the venue.

This is a free event - there is no charge for a ticket.
We often get enough RSVP's for there to be a waiting list; the list has always cleared by the early part of the week of the talk, but this relies on you releasing your ticket if you can no longer attend. Please remember to do this if your plans change.

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Note for recruitment professionals - we don't exclude recruiters from our meetings but we would ask you to contact Rick Garner for a brief chat before you start attending.

Schedule
Doors open from 18:00
Intro and welcome 18:40
Speaker 18:50 (with a break at some point )
Wrap-up & prize raffle 20.45
Close ~21:00
(Don't feel bad if you have to leave early for a train/bus/lift home - no one will be offended)

We then adjourn to a local bar for a drink and a natter - everyone is welcome to join us!