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+ ...page...+ 02-May-2009 - Finally completed the big version
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+ Today i found enough time and motivation to solder everything together. Lots of wires in this small enclosure, and the components are very near each other in some places. It's amazing how much space everything eats up if it has to be installed in the enclosure in some sort of ergonomic placement.. When this unit really is used as a floor unit, you usually kick the bypass switch with your foot, so nothing of the other elements should be in the way there. Having the rest far enough away leaves just little space in the rear for the connectors. And the large potentiometers do the rest for eating up the space. All in all, i think the component placement is okay, the battery removal/installation is not too comfortable, but it is useable.
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+ With the look of the enclosure, i'm really unhappy. First, i needed to buy the expensive original ink cartridges to get an acceptable contrast, which then was a bit eaten up by heating the foil to apply it to the enclosure. In this step, everything moved around a bit, so this also makes things a bit ugly. To make everything even worse, the lacquer was aggessive enough to not just dissolve the ink on the foil, but also the foil itself.
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+ I think i need to experiment much more here to get acceptable results. For a first try, it's quite okay, but there is much room for improvement.
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]]> Mon, 15 Mar 2010 13:05:12 +0100 MiK-one http://www.mik-music.org/tiki-index.php?page=MiK-one .diffchar { color:red; } - The design goal was to squeese a modular synthesizer into a small box and make everything controllable via MIDI. So there are not just a lot of CVs in this unit but also many analog switches, as the "wiring" between the modules should be very flexible. Now what modules does it have?
+ The design goal was to squeeze a modular synthesizer into a small box and make everything controllable via MIDI. So there are not just a lot of CVs in this unit but also many analog switches, as the "wiring" between the modules should be very flexible. Now what modules does it have?
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+ From now on, i will no longer respond to mails from people i don't know personally.
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]]> Fri, 12 Mar 2010 15:24:02 +0100 MIDItriggs http://www.mik-music.org/tiki-index.php?page=MIDItriggs .diffchar { color:red; } - Besides using this thing in beatboxes, you can do much more with it like controlling lamps or building a button bux sending MIDI events, but this is not described in detail here, as you have to make the necessary changes in the design on your own, which is why it's open source :)
+ Besides using this thing in beatboxes, you can do much more with it like controlling lamps or building a button box sending MIDI events, but this is not described in detail here, as you have to make the necessary changes in the design on your own, which is why it's open source :)
- All you need to get this thing running is a working AVR toolchain (i recommend gcc 4.3.2 and his friends) and the avr-libc. The current board version is designed around an ATmega168 which even can handle quite complicated hardware support and allows the use the the MIDIboot boot loader. An ATmega88 might also be enough for most purposes.
+ All you need to get this thing running is a working AVR toolchain (i recommend gcc 4.3.2 and his friends) and the avr-libc. The current board version is designed around an ATmega168 which even can handle quite complicated hardware support and allows the use the the MIDIboot boot loader. An ATmega88 might also be enough for some purposes, for really large functionality, you might need an ATmega328, they all work with the board i think.
- A nice companion for MIDItriggs is the MIDIboot i recently published, as this enables you to update the firmware using SysEx uploads via MIDI. With this, you need at least an ATmega88.
+ A nice companion for MIDItriggs is the MIDIboot, as this enables you to update the firmware using SysEx uploads via MIDI. With this, you need at least an ATmega88 to use the boot loader feature.
- The new board version is completed, providing easy installation together with the MIDI connectors. 2 flat cables can be connected, one carrying 12 signals, the other carrying 8 signals. For simple triggering, the 10pin-connector (with 8 signals) might be left unused or can be used to connect a HD44780-compatible display and a rotary encoder for more intuitive configuration and status display. In more complex setups like the CR-78, this cable also can carry I2C-signals to control more I/O ports like a bank select for a memory expansion or driving simple LED displays.
+ The board provides easy installation together with the MIDI connectors. 2 flat cables can be connected, one carrying 12 signals, the other carrying 8 signals. For simple triggering, the 10pin-connector (with 8 signals) might be left unused or can be used to connect a HD44780-compatible display and a rotary encoder for more intuitive configuration and status display. In more complex setups like the CR-78, this cable also can carry I2C-signals to control more I/O ports like a bank select for a memory expansion or driving simple LED displays.
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