Thursday, August 3, 2006
Soldering
On Monday, the parts for the Midibox arrived from Mike’s Elektronikseite. I ordered the boards and the parts there because it saves a lot of time and is not much more expensive than getting everything from various sources.
It is Wednesday evening now and I’ve been busy soldering all the boards the last two days. I started with one of the easier small boards and did the “core” board last. The digital out board has no resistors yet because of the different LEDs that need different resistance to light up with equal brightness. This is how it looks now. The cables at the right side are power and MIDI in/out.
I am very happy that it works. I uploaded the operating system, MIOS and the Midibox64 application onto the microchip via MIDI and had no problems so far.
Today I bought the rest of the parts I need for my keytar: Pots, knobs, sliders and the small LCD so I can actually start using everything. With the LCD and four menu buttons you can access the complete configuration of the Midibox system.
The next tasks are drilling lots of holes into the plastic guitar, mount all those switches, pots and LEDs and wire everything as well as adapt the Midibox program so that it works for my ideas.
Keytar Project:
Part 3: MIDIbox inside
Part 5: My desk is covered in cables and stuff.
