Geek’athon was a success
Tonight Rick (from work) very kindly offered to help me out at work after we were done for the day. In return for beer and pizza he offered kind direction and patiently explained Ohm’s law and other useful things when building electronics.
After our departing colleagues initial mocking turned to fascination (yes Tom you can come to the next one), we got down to business.
We made huge progress.
Rick took total ownership for flashing the Arduino with the Monome serial (something that I think next time round he might document).
I finished off the button PCB’s so all LED’s and Diodes are in. I started on the connections across the boards and got 80% done. I also stormed through the shield which is now totally done.
The last “big” job is the shield break off piece and wiring up the buttons to it. I realized I didn’t have any ribbon cable, so I think I’ll try and swing by IEI tomorrow morning and see if they have anything in stock that looks good.
I have no photo’s currently, but I’ll take my big camera into work tomorrow morning and take a bunch from various angles of the progress.
I’d say we are a very lazily 2 hours from have an unenclosed arduinome.
In his spare time Rick started playing around with his Arduino Mini’s (he has a few). I think he’s going to start looking at something that might be a USB midi device that has lots of knobs on it. Possibly something that will work well with the monome and enhance the capabilities. Could be interesting.
Congrats on the success. I too had a geek out night. Spent 6 hours in the electronics lab at my university putting it all together. I’m to the point where you are. Just have to wire up the LED to the shield.
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Ah nm– you’ve wired up the boards already. Past me then. That reminds me– I need superglue.
I actually used hot glue, but it didn’t work so well. I probably need to redo the glueing of the boards again. For an interim I used twisty ties through the holes where they met. That worked pretty well. Off to try and find strip cables that will fit and then I’m down to the last hour or so of soldering and I should be done …. touch wood.