About me¶
Hi! I am Pierre DETRY. Born in 1968, divorced, father of 3 childrens (2 girls and a boy, aged 26 downto 18).
I am an Industrial engineer in Electronics working since 1997 for AGC in the European R&D Centre, located in Gosselies, BE.
I am now technical reponsible for (among other things) the AGC Design Lab (2 FDM & 1 SLA 3D Printers, laser cut, vinyl cut, electronics prototyping), where the goal is to enable the pre-totyping and fast prototyping for the different projects and more than this, make the colleagues become autonomous in the usage of the different machines that we propose.
Before that, I have been working for 20 years in the development, installation, maintenance… of a on-line glass defects detection system using lasers, CCD cameras, image recognition, real-time processing and communication…
My background¶
I was born in Charleroi BE, in 1968, now living in Morlanwelz BE.
Previous work¶
I’ve been working for Digiline/Digipass for 3.5 years, for the development of peri-telephony devices, like voice servers over telephone. It was developped in C++, under DOS, featuring task switching, database access, network access....
The Digipass department was developping a device to secure the customer to bank transactions.
At that time, Internet was pretty confidential, Windows was at version 3.11 on 3.5 inch diskettes, and wearing a mask when entering a bank building was generating a lot of problems to you (I did not test it at that time).
Hobby¶
Playing music (keyboard player).
This comes after the mandatory hobbies of house keeping, cleaning, cooking, washing up, garden maintenance....
Project¶
My project will be about music. I already own 2 keybeds, so only keys and contacts. Each key has 2 contacts : one at rest position, one at action position. Calculating the time to switch from rest to action position gives a measurement of the velocity of the key, which is a must have for a playable keyboard, and is fully implemented in the MIDI norm.
My goal will be to interface correctly the keybed and contacts to an Arduino, that will be recognized by an external pc/MAC as a standard MIDI class compliant interface.
Also required are 2 wheels, connected to potentiometers, that control the pitch bend and modulation parameters.
Useful add-ons include :
- Sustain pedal - Volume pedal - Buttons to switch the MIDI channel, transpose by 1/2 tones, store the settings - LCD or simple LED display for infos
If possible with the used Arduino, implement it also as a standard audio class compliant sound card, so that the computer is used as a sound generator, and the audio output comes back to the MIDI/audio keyboard of the player.
Here a link to an existing product of that kind
The body to be developped will allow to hold a USB audio external interface, a place for a PC/Mac wherefrom it cannot fall, and a metal tube placed vertically but rotatable, that can hold a tablet on its holder.