UNO R4 Stars: Meet Gustavo Silveira

The launch of the Arduino UNO R4 marks an enormous leap ahead for our neighborhood. For us, it’s additionally the prospect to have a good time the individuals who convey our ecosystem to life with their vivid concepts, radiant enthusiasm, and shining perception.

That’s how the UNO R4 Stars weblog submit sequence started: to spotlight makers who haven’t solely created superb initiatives with Arduino, however who’re giving again to the neighborhood by sharing as they go and serving to others make something they need.

We invite you to find every profile, hoping you would possibly discover a North Star to navigate round an increasing galaxy or enterprise into utterly new universes.

Formally a composer and multimedia artist, Gustavo Silveira has been a self-proclaimed “nerd musician” ever since he found the technological instruments to construct his personal devices. His most iconic mission to this point is the XT Synth — a mixture of guitar, violin, and MIDI controller with a barely psychedelic look he’s significantly pleased with.

What motivates him in his work is the chance to create objects that didn’t exist earlier than, to make artwork in utterly new methods. In spite of everything, for Silveira making is a type of creativity: when he began “messing with Arduino” he instantly felt he may specific himself artistically – not solely by the outcomes of his initiatives, but in addition by the method itself.

Sharing his work got here naturally, as a approach of giving again: “I discovered every part I do know from the neighborhood, so these days having the ability to educate – by making movies for YouTube, writing the weblog, posting on Instagram – for me is basically, actually cool.”

 We requested Silveira, “What’s your favourite a part of UNO R4?”

• This new model is now HID, so it may be acknowledged as a USB system. So that you principally have a plug-and-play, MIDI-class compliant device to create all of your subsequent “nerd music” initiatives.
• It’s geared up with a really quick processor and already has a DAC and an amplifier: as a musician or sound designer, this implies you may check, prototype, after which hear proper there on the UNO R4 and do synthesis or audio processing.
• It could substitute any UNO mission, but in addition opens up new prospects for making that have been merely not there with the earlier variations.

Discover out extra about Silveira on his web site and observe him on YouTube or Instagram. You may as well try the XT Synth mission intimately right here, or discover his playlist on MIDI programming with Arduino.