About this site
minotor.org was the home of the Minotor project. It is now an archive of that project, run by someone who had nothing to do with it.
The project
- Authors
- Romuald Conty (560 commits) and Gauthier Legrand (299)
- Language
- C++ with Qt (4.8 at first, Qt 5 preferred from 2016)
- Licence
- GPL-3.0; bundles RtMidi and QExtSerialPort
- Active
- 2012-12 – 2017-02, 859 commits
- Last build
- 0.0-2, Ubuntu PPA, 2017
- Source
- github.com/minotor-org/minotor
Minotor sat in a live rig as one more MIDI device: a DJ's software sent it MIDI clock, and every animation was timed to that clock, so nothing had to be tapped or detected. It was built for very low resolutions — the team's own wall was 24 × 16 WS2801 pixels, fed over a serial link to an Arduino — and generated every animation in real time, with no clip player. The wiki explains how a show was built from animation groups, programs and the program bank.
Who runs it
An independent web publisher, who registered the domain in September 2026 after it had been unregistered for years. We are not Romuald Conty or Gauthier Legrand, we have no connection to them or to the minotor-org GitHub account, and we do not speak for the project. Nothing here should be read as coming from them.
We rebuilt the site rather than park it again because the project's GitHub repository still gives this address as its homepage. Anyone following that link for the last nine years found an ad page. Now they find the documentation.
History of the domain
| When | What was at minotor.org |
|---|---|
| April 2013 | The project's WordPress site opens: “Welcome to Minotor's website”. |
| 2013 – 2016 | Home, FAQ, download and blog pages; a DokuWiki at wiki.minotor.org; a bbPress forum; an apt repository at debian.minotor.org. The blog's second and last post, August 2013, is a video of the first live test. |
| January 2017 | Last update of the project's site. |
| September 2017 | The address redirects to a domain-parking service; the wiki and forum are gone. |
| 2018 – 2026 | Parked, then lapsed. Nothing of substance was published here. |
| September 2026 | Registered by the current owner; this archive published. |
What is restored and what is new
- Restored: the seven wiki pages that had content, with spelling corrected and dead links updated or removed — each page lists its changes. The wiki was licensed CC BY-SA 3.0 and these pages keep that licence.
- Restored: the logo, the layout and text of the front page, and the two blog posts, as they were on the original site.
- Restored: the photos from the build guide that survive, and the program screenshot from the home page.
- From the source code: the animations page — names, descriptions, parameters and preview images — read from the GPL-3.0 repository.
- New: the download and FAQ pages, written from the original pages and the repository, and every box marked Editor's note, 2026.
- Not restored: the forum, because its posts belong to the people who wrote them; the contact form and user accounts; and the apt repository, which should never be served from a domain that has changed hands.
How the new text was written
The new pages and the editor's notes were drafted with the help of a language model and then checked by hand. Every factual claim in them was checked against something you can open yourself — an original page, a file in the repository, the Launchpad PPA, or the MIDI and ATX specifications — and most pages link to the source. If you find a claim that does not hold, we would rather correct it than keep it.
Contact
Corrections, a missing page you have a copy of, or anything else: hello@minotor.org.
If you are one of Minotor's authors and want something here changed or removed — or want the domain back for the project — write to the same address. That request takes priority over everything else on this site.