Category: Hacking

Hacking, Productivity, Software Development

How To Delete A List On Trello

Being unable to directly delete lists on Trello annoys the neatnik and engineer in me. Yes, you can archive them, but it’s not the same- sometimes you just want things deleted (for example when they’re created by mistake, as opposed to just being not relevant to your board anymore). Here’s a very easy way to …

Atmel, emulate-the-f1, Hacking, Performance & DJing, Traktor

Emulating The Traktor Kontrol F1 – Part 3

In Part 2 of this series I described how to setup the hardware and software environment. Now we get to the juicy bits – the actual firmware that will make the Arduino Uno appear to your computer (and to Traktor) to be a Native Instruments Traktor Kontrol F1.

Atmel, Hacking

Building dfu-programmer on Mac OS X

I encountered issued building dfu-programmer on Mac OS X (10.7.5) – the make script wasn’t finding the libusb include file and library – here’s how I got it to work. I am using dfu-programmer 0.6.2 and fink to install libusb; the same technique will probably work with other installs of libusb, e.g. macports, manual install, …

Ableton Live, Hacking

apc40-mode: Change Firmware Modes On The Akai APC40

The Akai APC40 is a great controller for MIDI mapping to applications (Traktor, etc.) as it has a large and varied set of controls available, along with multi-coloured pads. For a MIDI application to take full advantage of these the APC40 needs to be in Firmware Mode 1; upon power-up, however, the APC40 enters Firmware …

Atmel, emulate-the-f1, Hacking, Performance & DJing, Traktor

Emulating The Traktor Kontrol F1 – Part 2

Development Setup In Part 1 of this post, I explained the background of this project. Now I’m going to detail the hardware and software development setup I am using. N.B. Since starting this series, Traktor 2.6.2 has been released, which allows MIDI mapping of the Remix Decks. I’ve decided to finish this series anyway, however, …

Atmel, emulate-the-f1, Hacking, Performance & DJing, Traktor

Emulating The Traktor Kontrol F1 – Part 1

Background Native Instruments introduced a great new concept in Traktor 2.5.0 – the Remix Decks. Basically each of the decks in Traktor can be used as a 4×16 sample player, with a lot of neat features including sync, various stop/start/loop modes, individual filters on each column and so on. You can read all about them …