La Malinette

The Malinette is a free and open source framework to make interactive and multimedia projects. It is used by artists, students and teachers in labs, schools, colleges or faculties.

TYPEMultimedia Framework
DATE
STACKPure Data, Arduino, Bash
La Malinette project

This project was developped and produced by the Reso-nance Numérique collective from 2012 to 2018. Other projects continue to use the Malinette, as the BrutBox project.

The problem

The solution

Use Cases

Workshops, training & live

Malinette Workshop

Malinette live BrutBox

Hardware

We designed a book-shaped wooden box to make the kit portable. It contains an Arduino electronic card and a coherent set of five sensors and five actuators. You can make the box in a Fablab near you.

Malinette Kit

Software

Around 150 objects divided into 6 categories: input, output, audio, video, numbers and sequencers

Malinette Objects List

Some utilities have been developed, such as “pd2png”. It allows taking png screenshots of a Pure Data file folder.

Pd2png

Website & Community

I’ve built also a minimal website in french and english, using HTML and W3CSS library, and a click counter in AJAX/PHP.

Website

What I Learned