This article is about some modifications I made to the Minim audio library used within Processing development environment; the result is a stand-alone version of Minim, MinimSA, capable of performing audio related operations (and analysis) without the need of Processing core and portable to any Java project.

It took me some time and a lot of research on Google to setup a fully automated FFmpeg IDE on a Windows machine. A lot of documents are available but none of them is comprehensive of all the steps required, from configuration to installation.

FAST is a very useful software for the simulation of Wind Turbine Generator systems, developed at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL); the program core consists of a non-linear multi-body model written in FORTRAN that can be also implemented in MATLAB/Simulink® as a S-Function.

MIDI2 is a Java socket server that allows MIDI messages to be sent over a connection between a host and a client. It's primary intended to be used with Onyx-VJ, an Adobe® AIR™ live video mixing tool, but soon could support also VISP, a live visual renderer, also in AIR™.