{"id":206,"date":"2025-03-16T02:12:33","date_gmt":"2025-03-16T02:12:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/absurdinstruments.com\/?p=206"},"modified":"2025-03-16T02:13:16","modified_gmt":"2025-03-16T02:13:16","slug":"drone-tentacles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/absurdinstruments.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/16\/drone-tentacles\/","title":{"rendered":"Drone tentacles"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Just a quick experiment to see how it sounds when I attach tentacles to my supervisor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.explodingart.com\/arb\/2023\/10\/31\/on-board-drone-machine\/\">Andrew Brown&#8217;s Drone Machine<\/a>.  The drone machine is a synthesiser controlled by capacitive touch with a range of parameters to shape the sound.  By attaching tentacles to the Drone Machine I could play the notes by touching the tentacles.  At first attachment nothing happened,  I assumed this could be due to the difference in capacitive\/conductive area, so I tried turning the synth off and on again in the hope that it would calibrate to the new attachment.  Quite surprisingly this worked and I could easily trigger notes with tentacle touches.  I would like to explore how to use the capacitive elements to include proximity so that i could gain some variety in the tentacle control.  Currently, the tentacles are a glorified touchpad and in the future I hope to explore more options in expanding their use with the Drone Machine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/absurdinstruments.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/drone-tentacle-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-207\" srcset=\"https:\/\/absurdinstruments.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/drone-tentacle-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/absurdinstruments.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/drone-tentacle-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/absurdinstruments.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/drone-tentacle-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/absurdinstruments.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/drone-tentacle-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/absurdinstruments.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/drone-tentacle-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video controls src=\"https:\/\/absurdinstruments.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/drone-tentacle.mov\"><\/video><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a quick experiment to see how it sounds when I attach tentacles to my supervisor Andrew Brown&#8217;s Drone Machine. The drone machine is a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":207,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/absurdinstruments.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/absurdinstruments.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/absurdinstruments.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/absurdinstruments.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/absurdinstruments.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/absurdinstruments.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":211,"href":"https:\/\/absurdinstruments.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206\/revisions\/211"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/absurdinstruments.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/absurdinstruments.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/absurdinstruments.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/absurdinstruments.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}