Blackbird: Music Thing Workshop Now Supports Monome Crow 🎶

A very long introduction, video manual, and demonstration of the blackbird program card for the Music Thing Modular Workshop System!

Download the firmware and read more here: https://tomwhitwell.github.io/Workshop_Computer/programs/41-blackbird/index.html

Check out the open source code: https://github.com/TomWhitwell/Workshop_Computer/tree/main/releases/41_blackbird

Huge thank you to:
- Tom Whitwell for the Workshop System
- Chris Johnson for the ComputerCard framework
- Brian Crabtree and Trent Gill (monome & Whimsical Raps) for the original crow and the open source crow firmware
- Zack Scholl (infinitedigits) for encouragement and proving Lua can work on RP2040 with his midi-to-cv project
- Ben Regnier (Q*Ben) for extensive testing, feedback, and hard work on porting bowery scripts over to bbbowery

Norns script credits:
Awake script developed by Brian Crabtree https://llllllll.co/t/awake/21022
Acid Test by Zack Scholl (aka infinitedigits) https://llllllll.co/t/acid-test/52201
Loom by Mark Eats https://llllllll.co/t/loom/21091
Buoys by Lyle Mills https://llllllll.co/t/buoys-v1-2-0/37639

Timestamps:
0:00 Introduction
2:46 What is crow?
8:25 Connecting to web-druid
10:00 basics: hello blackbird
15:08 Live coding with web-druid
38:12 Visualizing signals
39:38 Writing your own scripts
44:36 Uploading a script
46:47 Setting up a 2nd card
54:00 Why I made blackbird
55:19 Connecting to Max MSP
59:12 Connecting to Ableton Live
1:02:19 Connecting to norns
1:14:03 Outroduction