I picked up a $10 blue toy megaphone/voice changer. It comes with 5 switches down the site to choose different voice changin effects.
After removing the PCB from the plastic case, replacing the microphone with a 1/4″ in, and the speaker with a 1/4″ out. Removing all the plastic switches, drilling out the holes, replacing with metal toggle switches. Finding a way to rewire the LED’s that show the audion level. Finding a way to supress the op/amp chip with a giant resistor so it doesn’t increase the volume 10 times. All I needed to do was stick it in a temp hardboard panel and mount it in my eurorack.
I rather like the effects, they really are very nasty.
It would be great if the intensity of each effect was controllable with a knob, but I tried and nothing seemed to work.
It would be great if the toggles could also be fired with CV triggers, but I have no idea where to start.
So for now, this is it.
I’ll find a link to the actual megaphone and will post here soon.
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There’s a picture on the right of what I started with, it’s not my picture, just one I found on flickr that was the same.
I threw together a quick video showing my arduinome and my monome both plugged into Arduinome Serial, but pointing at two seperate applications, in this case flin and 64_slide. The audio is non existent and the camera shaky, but hopefully it answers some questions. It makes me wonder why there is an Arduinome Serial and why not just Monome Serial that can also talk to Arduinome’s?
Finally found some time in between flu forced naps to finish off the display portion of the knobome idea. Now all I need to do is stuff this into the small looking enclosure I have and then work out what I’m planning on doing for an input. LyodMilligan has some very promising ideas over on the other post. Although he very quickly got me out of my depth in terms of technical know how, so I’m hoping he’s going to throw me a lifeline before I start drowning. I also suspect I might run out of room. For that reason I’m thinking I might go with a simple 2 x 8 position rotary switch and a small momentary switch.
Twist the 2 rotary switches to the 8×8 co’ordinates you want and press the button to trigger a press.
I should be able to get away with that with nothing more than some imaginative wiring and no additional components – but we’ll see.
Then I might approach the knobome enclosure slightly differently.
Update, it took a great deal of trimming, pushing and bending, but it’s all inside the enclosure now. Absolutely no room for switches or knobs. So this one will become a viewNome. Knobome will need a bigger house.
The Stribe 1 has been launched and it looks really nice. I love the fact that it’s modular. $94 a pop, means you could pick one up a month and after 8 months you’d have a nice looking piece of kit.
I’m curious to see what’s needed above and beyond just having the modules. How much you need to do to get it working with the arduino and what max patches are available. I’m already thinking that a arduinome 64 with 2 or 3 of these strips off the side in the same enclosure could be pretty neat and very useful. I wonder if there will (or is) any cross fade patches yet. I’m very tempted to get a couple.
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.
