At unsped's request, here's a video of the latest progress on the Tinct project. As usual, apologies for the video quality; if anyhow knows how I can make the colour of the LEDs show up properly, please tell me!

I now have two 4x4 panels connected, making the left half of a full 8x8. The software is all running for the full 8x8, I just need to wire up the other two panels.

It's very hard to see, but the individual colours are set differently. In the first segment, I'm running "nerdscroll" in monochrome mode. In the second, I'm showing two oscillators in 64life.ck. The colour here is evolving over time, so the centers of the oscillators stay static, while the changing outside squares cycle through all the colours. The third segment is running the boiingg MAX patch, with colours cycling as it goes.

Occasional glitches in colour is due to the fact that the LEDs aren't actually soldered in yet, they're just held in by pressure, so sometimes a lead is loose and colours won't show up properly. The same goes for the fact that some of the button presses take a couple of tries.

The TinctSerial program as well as the Tinct firmware now supports the full range of monome OSC commands. All the earlier bugs I encountered have been squashed. Next up, I'm going to start expanding the protocol to allow colour manipulation.

To keep up to date on the project, watch upnotnorth.blogspot.com/.

2010 update: that Blogspot page is long abandoned. For the latest on this and (mostly) other projects, check out my new site at upnotnorth.net.