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Runik's Cubes
Runik's Cubes are tangible interfaces built to control music, games or visualizations. Each cube has a 3-axis gyroscope, a 3-axis accelerometer, plus wireless communication and built-in battery. This allows the user to turn and rotate the cubes without any wires attached.The cubes can basically be programmed to control anything. In one setup the user can change musical instruments by turning the left cube. By turning the right cube, the user can select between several parameters in the selected instrument. By rotating the left cube, the user can manipulate these parameters, e.g. turning down the volume, applying distortion or adding delay to the instrument. This makes it a much more visual effective instruments for electronic musicians than a laptop.
Each cube is made of plexiglass and has one RGB LED on each side. They can blink and change color on each side. The cubes communicate wirelessly to a small USB XBee connected to your computer, and they send serial data to a Processing application.
The cubes have been featured on Adafruit, Make and Engadget.
They were built with Nikolas Psaroudakis.