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Cool. I want one

But probably wont be able to afford it.

What was the mixer (digital) you were using?

If you need a distributor in the MIDWEST, I need a different job.

Yup, pure digital mixer, thanks to the EMU-1820m sound card. Does a lot of other neat stuff too (full range of effects, compressors on every strip, remote digital mixing on your smart phoen via reaper+midiyoke+puredata+touchOSC

Since you can drop compressors on everything, I just drop one on the background music and the mics, then call it a day.

We'll be looking for KJ's with a bit of tech experience. At least enough to swap hardware in and out, and perform basic network diagnostics.

Almost done upholstering this sucker, then I got to do some funky windows stuff to make everything start up at the right time.


There's 2 ways we want to get employees.

1. Sales - I supply you with the materials (contracts, sales packets) Get a sale, you get 10% of the monthly income from that sale.

2. Do my own sales, media blitz, and when there's sufficient installs in an area, recruit people.

Like I said in the video though, so far I got 1 signed up, and at what I'm charging, I should be able to get 3 machines rolling after 2 months (probably just one, wife wants her cut)

(@$%&#!) love bugs bunny, I'm the road runner. Thpppppt



3 wheel motion.

Wish I had a forklift.

Looks a lil 70's-ish

I have seen some stuff that you paint on for truck bed liner. Kinda like the
Rino-Liner spray. That might be cooler.

On the "non-alpha" unit we'll pack all the PC gear into a pelican case, minus the system cases (don't need that extra weight if you can avoid it)

I'll also use one massive power supply, instead of multiple power supplies for the monitors, motherboards. We'll be able to wire all the 12v via a custom built harness. I

Yes, very 70's I was born 1973. This was the best I could do with the materials I had on hand though, a production unit would be much tighter than this.

Here's some more pics.


Is it a palette or is it a?


STAGE! (just bolted an old table to the top, cut the palette to fit)


Close up, only the finest geek craftmanship. (I'm seriously terrible at building)

I'll take more pics tomorrow, but that's it. Add speakers and it's running.

For now to keep the thing transportable, the box comes off the base pretty easy, and has handles so it can be lifted into my van. Since everything was designed to fit within the confines of the steel frame, the frame/monitor deck will lie right over the box in my van with no clearance issues.

Heavy as hell, I'll need help loading/unloading but it won't be that bad.

How will you exercise now that you have destroyed your treadmill?

very cool Toqer!!! and very interesting! Did you ever see the vid i posted on the AutoKJ site....My DIY wireles kisok with the FE on it....works like a charm i tell ya!! Love your software!!!

So tonight was the first run of the system. (Outside of 7 Bamboo) We ran the system for a local political group called PACT. 2 SJ city councilmen were in attendance.
http://www.pactsj.org/



POST (power on self test)

Setup at the pact event.





Go outside to look at the moon, come back in and..

I can't even get close to the thing. Everyone wants to looky touchy, so I just sit back the rest of the night, go back outside, smoke a few cigs, look at the moon some more.

U sux, Think I may need a "rental" for parties.

Can I buy just the h-ware and load my own music?

Even with 10+ years of desktop support/QA/IT experience it's hard for me to get the hardware all talking to each other to the point where you just plug in power and everything syncs up like it's supposed to.

That's why I'm pre-packaging it. I don't want folks to even think about the IT stuff. We (autokdj group) don't want folks doing 1/2 baked implementations either...

Autokdj is just some of the software we would put standard into the system. There's reaper (for automatic crossfading, midi control of volume levels) there's puredata (for using touchosc on the iphone or android to control levels from the phone over a network) There's patchmix (providing inputs/outputs to reaper and effects) Midi Yoke (so puredata can output to midi, which reaper uses for remote phone control)

I also want to build 3d mapped projector based lighting into the system like this.


There's a lot more that will go under the hood of this product when it's at a "production" state. Since placement is fairly standard (stage is almost always the same size) we can do effects like you see above.

I haven't even covered 1/4 of what's on the drawing board. I put a lot of my notes down on my facebook profile, you should friend me. Look for the Robert Cortese wearing a tin foil hat.

BTW folks...

This is how you beat pirates. Offer something they can't. Last time we (autokdj group) made the mistake of giving our software out for free. This time we're coveting it like Shmeegle covets the ring.

(my precious)

Just to give you folks an idea of some of the stuff that would need to be worked out in a production unit.. Wiring...


Why would I need 3 PC's, with 3 power supplies, and cases? That is a TON of excess heat. You can wire 3 motherboards to a single power supply if you know how to do it.

The amount of heat this box generates is INSANE. In the next few weeks, I'm going to do just like I said above, and take all the motherboards out of their cases, remove power supplies, and get 1 big 4-500 watt power supply for everything.

Everything (including the monitors) can be run from a PC power supply. Don't even need the little bricks to power monitors.

Thing is, this type of part reduction can be applied to everything. Why use 3 CPU fans when you can duct air across the heatsinks using one fan that's large enough to move enough air over all of them (that's the big AC fan I got in there now)

To some extent, you can even share hard drives. For the kiosk, there really isn't a need for them. Just have the main KJ machine serve out a PXE boot image. It's not a lot to boot up either.