EECS 373 demo1: Postal Service

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Uploaded by on Dec 17, 2008

This was made as part of University of Michigan's EECS 373: Embedded systems course December 2008

Group members:
Andrew Putman
Eric Schmidt
Collin Scott

Under supervision of: Mark Brehob, Matt Smith

Program on the fly 64-beat electronic loops, sound generated by midi keyboard. Allows for 8 "pages" of different 8 beat samples, freely program midi instrument to each page. Adjust BPM on the fly. Start/Stop, restart, clear all functions implemented.

Made with:
3M ClearTek Touch pad
Standard LCD VGA display
MPC823 processor
XILINX Spartan 3 FPGA
Midi keyboard (allows for midi input)

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Science & Technology

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Standard YouTube License

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  • Hey all, thanks for all the feedback! Don't know why its getting so much buzz today.

    Admittedly, the functionality of this device is limited, we started completely from scratch and had to finish in 5 weeks. There were tons of features I wanted to add but we ran out of time (mainly it sucked we were limited to 8 pages and 8 counts per page). That specifically is why we couldn't make this song sound perfect.

  • My inspiration originally was the Tenori-on and obviously it deviated a lot from there and became more like fruity loops.

    The reason it looks like crap is because we are running a custom FPGA logic circuit that is completely controlling the display. Check your computer cuz I'm pretty sure you have a processor and a graphics card to do that for you...

    About getting a keyboard...the sounds are actually coming through a keyboard; so we're limited by the keyboard more than we were from our SW.

  • I don't mind the haters, keep the comments coming. I'd love to make another one of these some days and any feedback is appreciated. If I were to start again, I would start from a completely different background knowing I was making something I wanted, not something that had to do X and Y and Z for a grade in a class.

    Cheers!

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  • To be honest, this is the best cover of a postal service song that i've found on here. It's the only one I've found so far that has any technical relation to the original.

  • One of the better projects in the class really. Given the timeframe (4-5 weeks) and restrictions (everything had to be done by hand including all drivers and FPGA work) it's just really well put together....

  • looks hard to work with but cool

  • Hmmm, what dickish thing can I say about your video.... j/k

    I liked it, pretty cool project... can't wait to get my hands on Ableton's Launchpad though...

    And I also appreciate the less 'aesthetically pleasing' school project!

  • You're a dumbass. Go jump off a bridge. It's obvious that this was done for a grade as a project. I would absolutely love to see you do something that could even compare to this.

  • Id like to see any of you fucking assholes make anything close to this, so fuck off

  • it was made for an electrical engineering class, you dick. post the machines you've made

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