Bloom iPhone Application from Lawrence Brown on Vimeo

I have a fair share on iphone music making apps. This one has a certain Eno twist. Check it out.

Nerdscroll is mirrored, which is pretty weird.

Simplest musical test available, also demo’s some of the shorts I was having, they are now fixed. The 2nd from left column is the one that the LED’s don’t work, but as you can see from the video the buttons do.

Spectrum Analyser

Using the monome test, with the arduinomeserial running, I can now get handshakes going on. Press a button, the monome test recognises it, press the test cell to light a led and up it comes.

I do however still have a problem column. That right hand column (which I think is actually the bottom one maybe). It still doesn’t light on power up and the scrolling horizontals. And now I’m getting 1 or both led’s in the column dimly light and flicker gently when you light one from another column.

I’ve fiddled around and pulled and pushed, poked at it with a meter – but quickly came to the conclusion I have no idea what I need to be looking at.

Is there any indication from the above whether this is a board, a board edge wiring, a break off or a sheild issue?

What are the best trouble shooting steps once you get to this stage. I’m assuming I should be able to meter test A & B and that will show whether I have a short at point X.

I’m going to dedicate as much time as possible this weekend to getting this thing running – that and try and work out how to make a quick and easy temporary front panel maybe just using a sheet of ply with the correct squares drilled – need to find a decent template for that, which I think I saw the other day on the monome forums.

Been a while, apologies for the delay – got caught up in some chaos on another project (usernamecheck.com and it’s 100,000 visitors since it launched).

Anyway, back to this project. I finished the soldering today. At least finished until I need to fix all the bits that are buggy and broken.

I’ve managed to get to a point where I can get a horizontal (or vertical I guess) scrolling pattern. I was able to do all the serial name setting in XP in Parallels (more on that to come). It now shows up in “profiler” in OSX as the correct name, etc. Originally all the lights would come on, but I was matching in with in and out with out, but I think I was supposed to match in to out and vica versa – that is what I have now and I get the scrolling – which seems positive.

I can’t however see the arduinome in arduino serial or weirdly enough in the arduino client. It’s just not showing up under the devices – I just get all the bluetooth ones. More fiddling around tomorrow, I feel like I’m just trying stuff right now without even knowing what it might do – which is dangerous.