Hi,
what possible crazy uses are there for this awesome software besides its intended use of "making music".
One idea i had , was to use it to trigger external thing periodically. Think of the following setup:
LMMS
|
Audioout(to spk/lineout) -
| >>>-|-------spk (L +)
|>>>--|-|------spk (L-) ______________
| |>>>---------- | -____________|
| | external AC.device |
|>>>>--------- |+_(e.g. "lamp) |
|___________ __|
| >>>>--------spk(R-)
|>>>>---------spk(R +)
| |
"+DC.LED-"
by adding a 2 wires for each speaker we can fork the signal to whatever external electrical device we want. a small led can be lit this way without further modifications - a micro disco light show
With the right kind of electronic circuit the signal could be amplified to add power from an external source to drive heavier loads .
this leaves us with a fully customizable, programmable, automatable trigger-event system. Nice to have for a good laugh or to actually do something useful with it like periodically start and stop a motor - using volume settings for voltage regulation. (tested with a small dc motor... works!) A fade in would start the motor slowly and then let it run faster and faster. a fade out would slow it down accordingly.
Unfortunatly i dont know enough yet about electro/nics to design additional circuits / external applications. From here, it is your journey. I encourage you to experiment with this and if you have the needed skills to design "safe to use" circuits for this, please share them. A word of warning though: Dont fXXX around with shXX you do not understand entirley! Electricity can cause deadly accidents. (Thats the real reason, why i do not provide " a full circuit blueprint for lets say attaching an inverterboard to generate sparks with a few thousand volts....") so please, be sure to know what you do for your own good and if you should design and share a circuit make sure that it really is safe to use. nobody wants to fry their hardware! so its always a good advice to make sure that systems are galavincly seperated - use relais e.g.)
As with everything else in this world: YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR WHAT YOU DO! not me, not them, not the others... you!
what possible crazy uses are there for this awesome software besides its intended use of "making music".
One idea i had , was to use it to trigger external thing periodically. Think of the following setup:
LMMS
|
Audioout(to spk/lineout) -
| >>>-|-------spk (L +)
|>>>--|-|------spk (L-) ______________
| |>>>---------- | -____________|
| | external AC.device |
|>>>>--------- |+_(e.g. "lamp) |
|___________ __|
| >>>>--------spk(R-)
|>>>>---------spk(R +)
| |
"+DC.LED-"
by adding a 2 wires for each speaker we can fork the signal to whatever external electrical device we want. a small led can be lit this way without further modifications - a micro disco light show
With the right kind of electronic circuit the signal could be amplified to add power from an external source to drive heavier loads .
this leaves us with a fully customizable, programmable, automatable trigger-event system. Nice to have for a good laugh or to actually do something useful with it like periodically start and stop a motor - using volume settings for voltage regulation. (tested with a small dc motor... works!) A fade in would start the motor slowly and then let it run faster and faster. a fade out would slow it down accordingly.
Unfortunatly i dont know enough yet about electro/nics to design additional circuits / external applications. From here, it is your journey. I encourage you to experiment with this and if you have the needed skills to design "safe to use" circuits for this, please share them. A word of warning though: Dont fXXX around with shXX you do not understand entirley! Electricity can cause deadly accidents. (Thats the real reason, why i do not provide " a full circuit blueprint for lets say attaching an inverterboard to generate sparks with a few thousand volts....") so please, be sure to know what you do for your own good and if you should design and share a circuit make sure that it really is safe to use. nobody wants to fry their hardware! so its always a good advice to make sure that systems are galavincly seperated - use relais e.g.)
As with everything else in this world: YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR WHAT YOU DO! not me, not them, not the others... you!