Hello there! You've reached the portfolio-ish site of Ben Leduc-Mills. I like making, in many forms -- through music, woodworking, lasers, electronics, code, Lego, 3d printing, e-textiles, you name it. This website captures some of my career from interaction design, rapid prototyping & digital fabrication, open source hardware, software engineering, user research, and of course, AI.
Yes, I use AI everyday. For code, for design, and for research. No, I didn't use it for this website.
12.13.10 – SpeakJet and UCube Update
Last week I helped a few art students put together a text-to-speech setup using the SparkFun Voice Box board, the TTS-256 Speech to Text chip, and the SpeakJet synthesizer chip. We’re not quite done working on it, but here are a few pics:
I’ve also been doing a lot of work improving the uCube, and finally have a brief video that shows the physical interaction:
You can match it up with what’s going on in the software here (couldn’t get the screengrab to be recognized by youtube):
Better documentation forthcoming after finals are over.