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["Timothy D. Meehan" <tmeehan AT email.unc.edu>]

What happens if you cross a CueCat (those old free barcode scanners from
Radio
Shack) with a hi-fi turntable? Well, nothing. You just have a broke-ass
CueCat
and a useless relic. But if you're an MIT student from the Aesthetics +
Computation Group, you may instead have a fascinating thesis and a working
prototype of a device which optically reads paper 'records' containing
musical
sequencing or synthesis data, then pipes said data out to a computer through
MIDI or serial cables. Coupled with some custom software, maybe some Wi-Fi,
this could possibly make a handy product for the DJ-minded. If nothing else,
you have to respect this as king of all CueCat hacks. 
Projects: Spinalcat [ACG@MIT] 


http://www.gizmodo.com/archives/spinalcat-digital-turntable-024260.php
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Tim Meehan
Superfine Group
Department of Chemistry
University of North Carolina 
@ ChapelHill

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