Hesinde

Location: Darmstadt, Germany

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Depends*

Technologies: C++, TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, OpenGL, React, OIDC, OAuth, Keycloak, Docker

Résumé/CV: luisscholl.de/resume

Email: career@luisscholl.de

CS student doing part-time web development since 2018. Currently writing my Master's Thesis on a computer graphics topic. Available for full-time opportunities starting from December.

Looking for opportunities related to computer graphics, virtual reality, games and innovative UI in particular, but open to anything.

* prefer not relocating, but world-wide for incredible opportunities, Europe and Japan for exciting opportunities

A medium number of keys could work out by using a custom layout for each song as many songs don't use too many chords. Similar to tuning timpani for each song.

An organ pedalboard MIDI controller would be an off-the-shelf solution albeit expensive. You could hook it up to a drum rack in a DAW in order to remap the pedals to a useful layout.

With a foot activated MIDI controller the number of keys will always be rather limited. Therefore, I think that the virtual layout should be customized to the music you play or even for each song. E.g. you could only map notes of a certain scale and range in order to save space.

If you consider building something custom; I have found that outputting to hardware MIDI from an Arduino is delightfully simple. (The hard part on my own project is finding motivation for figuring out how to read velocity from piezos and isolating vibrations.)

If you include a computer as a modern console; There is StepMania, which is similar to DDR. I play it with an L-TEK EX PRO.

Further, there are a number of fitness VR games. I like Eleven VR and BeatSaber. The latter is available for PS5.

Nintendo has Ring Fit Adventure for the Switch.

I solve the issue of forgetting my key by having a key constantly attached to my keychain with a keychain clip except when its in use with my notebook. This means that I have three keys - one on my keychain, one on my main computer, and one for backup.

Also I have my passwords synced to my phone, which could serve as a mobile backup in a pinch. I currently have it configured to require the key, but I should probably change that now that I think about the possibility of losing the key.

Using the key is more convenient to me than not using it, because it saves me from having to remember and enter a long master password.

I have come to like sheet music - in part, because of its density.

Most voices, which we play in our music club fit on 1 to 4 sheets. This is the amount of sheets, which can be conveniently put on our music stands. Any more means page turning during a piece or multiple music stands.

A less dense format would mean that it does not find on four sheets on a music stand anymore. We would have to swap out paper binders for an electronic solution. This on one hand is expensive and on the otherhand bothersome. Paper with all its limitations just works. Electronic devices need to be charged, kept up to date, break easily, etc. Doing something offline lets me relax and focus easier.

That said I think tablets will become an increasingly better alternative for paper based sheet music. I don't like the glowing comparatively small displays though. Looking forward to big e-ink tablets running a general purpose OS.

A club member's setup is cool. He has an area dedicated to music in his house. Inbetween a dozen hardware synthesizers there is a master keyboard and behind it a big screen, which can be (at least in theory) used for configuring the synthesizers and display sheet music. This setup is expensive and stationary though and thus not a good fit for performing or playing music in a club.

I did not like sheet music in the beginning, but honestly I cannot think of a strictly better format to teach people how to perform a piece of music. I think a piano roll projected via AR technology would be a good contendor, but the technology is not there yet.

Have you tried an organ MIDI pedalboard and a script to translate MIDI to keystrokes? You could also put a micro controller between the pedalboard and your computer so that it looks like a normal keyboard to the computer. I do not know whether that would be pratical, but some sort of feet keyboard is in my idea space for what if.

Don't practice typing faster with your current method, because you already have for 30 years. Rather invest some time to learn a better method.

I learned touch typing within a week on holiday vacation with a software similar to this website: https://www.typingstudy.com/ (Young me felt very proud of being able to type like dad.) Once you have invested the time to learn the basic movements, you will become accustomed to them naturally.

I think the point of touch typing is not about being able to type a novel per month, but about spending less mental effort on typing. No matter whether you touch type "properly" or not, the ability to keep focusing on the screen eliminates micro context switches between thinking and typing.

Minecraft provides surprisingly many opportunities for automation. Most of them are pretty unintuitive though. A good source on how things can be automated are technical Minecraft Youtubers like ilmango.

TNT is used in farm designs, which generate blocks needing breaking, e.g. wood farms, cobble stone farms, dirt farms. There are two ways to get a lot of TNT for this: a) duping b) building a farm yielding gun powder (generic mob farm, creeper farm, witch farm) and duping or gathering sand

Hopper minecarts can collect items from below a magma block, which allows for easy killing zones in mob farms. Normal minecarts are sometimes used as gondolas for slime block bouncing lifts as the position of a player in a minecart is more accurate on servers. Minecarts can also be used to kill creatures via entity cramming. If there are more than 24 entitities within a block, creatures receive damage until the entity count drops. Once you have an iron farm, the minecarts and tracks become cheap.