monome forever

I wrote my first post about the monome on March 4th, 2006. At that time, I was quite excited about the idea, concept and design but didn’t really know what to do with it.
On April 28th, 2007 I ordered my very own unit of the 40h. Damn, I think I got one of the last few available pieces! It felt great to see many requests arise immediately in the monome forums and some days later, the first box appeared on eBay and made $760 (original price: $500).
But the really cool thing, and this is the main reason why I’m writing another post: There are great news coming from the monome headquarters. Soon you’ll be able to get a kit to build your own monome-inspired hardware, there’s a special edition of the 40h available (only 16 pieces) and they’re going to release three new models.
The special edition even has motion/tilt sensors built in! But no worries, that’s the cool thing about very well documented open hardware: it inspires and motivates me even more to hack my own accelerometer into my monome (I’m wondering if all the inner life of a Wii Remote would fit into the box?).
More extended coverage over at CDM. As soon as I have played around with the monome a bit more, I’ll let you know about my experiences. I’m planning on using it live pretty soon.
Update: Check out this video of the 40h special edition with the accelerometer in action.

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