Mark Us Prototype Mac OS
Description
Overview MarkUs is a web server to assist the assessment of the biochemical function for a given protein structure. MarkUs identifies related protein structures and sequences, detects protein cavities, and calculates the surface electrostatic potentials and amino acid conservation profile. Luckily, making a bootable installation of the Mac operating system became a whole lot easier when Apple launched OS X Mavericks back in 2013. With that version of Mac OS X.
Featuring heaps of cool diagnostic assets, this pack is a must for all your prototypes. Communicate design decisions with your team using the included notes and markers. Try out ideas quickly using the POLYGON style speed build blocks and primitives. Modular sections are easy to piece together in a variety of combinations. Includes a demo scene.
444 unique assets with 10 alternative texture colors. Polygon and Simple Versions of building assets
Assets include:
- Walls
- Ramps
- Stairs
- Doors
- Windows
- Floors
- Ladders
- Roofs
- Curved walls
- Rails
- Columns
- Terrains
- Pipe set
- Road cones
- Road barrier
- Wood Planks
- Metal plate with bolts
- Chest
- Crate
- Question mark crate
- Barrel
- VaseUrn
- Tree
- Bomb
- Cube tree
- Polygon blob tree
- Tropical tree
- Pine tree
- Bush
- Rocks
- Pebbles
- Boost pad
- Bat
- Knife
- Sword
- Shield
- Rifle
- Pistol
- Stopwatch
- Shooting target
- Generic assets including the grasses and Clouds
- +Heaps more (See the Layout Images)
Characters with Alternative colors
- Dummy Female 1
- Dummy Male 1
- Face Female 1
- Face Male 1
- No Face Female 1
- No Face Male 1
Vehicle
- Sports car 1
Technical Details
Features:
- Modular set to build prototype levels fast!
- Grid line materials for a cool look
- Full primitive set
- Heaps of fun diagnostic meshes and icons
Texture Sizes:
- 11 2048x2048
- 10 1024x1024
Scaled to Epic Skeleton: Yes
Collision: Yes, a mixture of custom and per face
Triangle Count: Average count ~1800 per character, 200 for props
LODs: None
Number of Meshes: 445 static 9 skeletal
Number of Materials and Material Instances: 20 Materials
Number of Textures: 21 Textures
Supported Development Platforms: Windows, Mac OS
Supported Target Build Platforms: PC, Mac, Android, iOS, Oculus, HTC Vive, Switch, PS4, Xbox
Background
This is a software MIDI interface designed to accept serial data from an Arduino board and convert it into MIDI drum data in OS X. The application acts as a bridge between sensors connected to the Arduino board and applications such as GarageBand or Logic without requiring additional MIDI hardware. All data is transferred directly over the USB connection and no additional power source is needed.The Ardrumo application has been an enormous success since its launch. To date this site has had tens of thousands of visits and the Ardrumo app has been downloaded almost 3500 times all across the world.
Ardrumo is free open source software, but please consider a small donation to keep the project going.
I wanted to make an inexpensive electronic drum setup that could be used with GarageBand. There are some great projects out there that describe how to output MIDI from an Arduino board (see References below), but these require additional hardware (e.g. MIDI modules, MIDI interface, etc). Since most people don't have extra MIDI hardware, I decided to just write some software to accept serial data from an Arduino board and make a virtual MIDI instrument that would be recognized by GarageBand. Here is the idea:
My Setup
My homemade drum kit is pictured below. Each pad is a circle of Duralar (i.e. thick mylar) sandwiched between two pieces of foam (from Pearl Art Store). Attached to the Duralar circle is a piezo sensor extracted from its plastic casing. Everything is then just glued together. Each pad cost about $3.00 to make.Video
Click on the image below to see a video of Ardrumo in action:
Pad Construction
Bill of Materials
Assembly Instructions
Wiring
The wiring is very similar to todbot's. I borrowed his image and modified it below (hope he doesn't mind). I didn't bother using a Zener diode as todbot suggests. It may be safer to do so, but I haven't blown out the Arduino board yet.Mac OS X Universal Application
Compatible with OS X 10.4 (Tiger) - OS X 10.10 (Yosemite) (see below for troubleshooting). This software was written in Java, so newer versions of OS X will require Java to be downloaded. This should be automatic. This also assumes you have installed the Arduino drivers and have a working connection between your Mac and Arduino board (how else would you load the sketch below?). If you don't have an Arduino board, you can still run the application and click the on-screen triggers to see how it works. To use it, plug in your Ardruino board with drum triggers attached, start GarageBand (or another MIDI-compatible application), and launch Ardrumo.Latest Version
Downloads require a quick registration. Registration lets me gauge how useful this software is to users. A link will be sent to your e-mail, but don't worry. I will not use your e-mail address for any other purposes and will never send you any other e-mails or spam.Ardrumo (Universal) (beta v100.2)
Previous Versions
Mark Us Prototype Mac Os Catalina
Ardrumo (Universal) (beta v100.1) (November 8, 2007)Source Code
SVN repositoryArduino Sketch
ardrumo.pde Load this sketch into your Arduino and connect up to 6 piezo sensors.Known Issues
'Ardrumo.app is damaged and can't be opened. You should move it to the Trash.' ErrorBecause of security 'improvements', OS X Gatekeeper may prevent Ardrumo from starting depending on the settings. Since I'm an unregistered developer, unfortunately, the error shown below implies the download is corrupt when, in fact, it isn't.
macOS Sierra (macOS 10.12)
In macOS Sierra, Apple has made it more difficult for users to start applications from unregistered developers for security reasons -- and likely because they can also collect a $100 fee from every registered developer (see this tip for details). To resolve this under macOS Sierra, you may temporarily disable Gatekeeper by opening Terminal (under /Applications/Utilities) and type:This will disable Gatekeeper to enable developers 'Allow from anywhere' security option shown in the Mac OS X El Capitan section below. After starting Ardrumo for the first time, you may reenable Gatekeeper with:
Mac OS X El Capitan (OS X 10.11)
To resolve this under Mac OS X El Capitan and below, please launch OS X 'System Preferences' and adjust your 'Security & Privacy Settings' to allow apps downloaded from anywhere to run (see below). Now, try to launch the Ardrumo application. If successful, Ardrumo will continue to start correctly even if the security setting is changed back to a more restrictive setting, so go ahead and change it back to the original setting. For a more detailed explanation of this error, see here and here.Other known issues
There are several known issues that will be addressed in the next release. Stay tuned! Planned features/bug fixes include:
- Bug: Correct double triggering
- Work in progress: the Threshold knob is not wired up yet
- Feature request: Save 'scenes' feature
- Feature request: MIDI channel support