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2025-04-03 / Jueves / Medellín, Colombia

Problems

  • Slow internet - Pages taking 5-10 seconds to initiate loading. Consistent on ethernet (direct line) and wi-fi.
  • Money low. Ideas and suggestions.
    • More clients
    • Higher purchase value
    • Higher purchase rate
    • Invest in sales activities
    • Get job - solution/sales engineer at a good company where you can learn a lot
      • Reach out to former colleagues, partners, clients
      • Update resume
      • Interview potential partners and employers
      • Overlap with passions
      • Research industry, customer persona, top problems and challenges

Writing advice

  • "Write as well as you can, and finish what you started." -Ernest Hemingway

Mission to Laureles

I have had the idea to build a piano keyboard for a long time. My brother CTP introduced me to the idea of the Keytar.

I went to Laureles, Medellin in order to meet with 3D Diseño, a company which specializes in product prototypes. A 3D product designer showed me how to build a piano keyboard using FreeCAD. Thanks Lukas!

Keytar: Keyboard guitar

A keyboard which is slung around the body, like a guitar. Usually keytars function as MIDI controllers, but there are exceptions, like the Electric Orphica (also called: eorphica, orphicaster, magnetar)

Photos of musicians playing Keytar

Matt B from Muse playing keytar

Musician playing keytar

  • Janktar

    • Open-source keytar.
    • Built with high-quality components.
    • Build it at your neighborhood maker-space.
    • It's got a flight-stick.
    • It has got a track-ball Trackball input device
    • You can play it under-water.
    • Stage-ready.
    • You can play it on an airplane.
    • It plays well with others (example: 3-person keytar band)
    • It's got a looper-pedal (Line) Looper pedal
    • Components and materials
      • Body: Wood
      • Computer: ESP32
      • Flight-stick: Logitech G Extreme 3D Pro Joystick Flight-stick
      • Software:
        • SonicPi
      • Required production tools:
        • CNC router
        • Music technology lab

  • E.Orphica - Imagine an electric piano (example: Rhodes piano), slung around your body like a guitar

    • Made of wood, and metal. And sapphires.