I have a need to route MIDI to several Raspberry Pi boards at the same time, so I've hacked together a variant of my MIDI Matrix Patch Bay to give me a 3.3V level serial MIDI THRU interface. I've used it for my 8-way Raspberry Pi V1 MiniDexed in the following video. https://makertube.net/w/g8rw9XtF4Z377dsANRu5Yr Warning! I strongly … Continue reading 3.3V Serial MIDI THRU
Category: Misc Hardware
Simple Square Wave Oscillator PCB Build Guide
Here are the build notes for my Simple Square Wave Oscillator PCB. https://youtu.be/1vpDoPMgUWA Warning! I strongly recommend using old or second hand equipment for your experiments. I am not responsible for any damage to expensive instruments! If you are new to electronics, see the Getting Started pages. Bill of Materials Oscillator components: Simple Square Wave Oscillator … Continue reading Simple Square Wave Oscillator PCB Build Guide
Atari Punk Console PCB Build Guide
Here are the build notes for my Atari Punk Console PCB Design. https://youtu.be/OP9pHC1lsGw Warning! I strongly recommend using old or second hand equipment for your experiments. I am not responsible for any damage to expensive instruments! If you are new to electronics, see the Getting Started pages. Bill of Materials Atari Punk Console PCB (GitHub link below) … Continue reading Atari Punk Console PCB Build Guide
Tactile Button Keyboard PCB – Part 2
Here are the build notes for my Tactile Button Keyboard PCB. Warning! I strongly recommend using old or second hand equipment for your experiments. I am not responsible for any damage to expensive instruments! These are the key tutorials for the main concepts used in this project: Open Music Labs: Input Matrix Scanning Arduino Nano MIDI … Continue reading Tactile Button Keyboard PCB – Part 2
Tactile Button Keyboard PCB
I've used tactile buttons as musical keyboards in a number of my projects now and either build them on solderless breadboard, which is quite unreliable, or on stripboard, which is a little messy. This PCB design is for a one-octave tactile button keyboard PCB that has various modes of operation and is extendable to two … Continue reading Tactile Button Keyboard PCB
Analog IO Board PCB – Part 2
This is the build guide for the Analog IO Board PCB. Warning! I strongly recommend using old or second hand equipment for your experiments. I am not responsible for any damage to expensive instruments! These are the key Arduino tutorials for the main concepts used in this project: Simple Potentiometer Breakout Arduino Multi-pot Mozzi FM Synthesis … Continue reading Analog IO Board PCB – Part 2
Analog IO Board PCB
A number of my synth projects require the use of potentiometers. A while back I made a relatively simple stripboard pot breakout, but it isn't particularly reliable. This PCB is a pot breakout that can be used in various ways - either direct, with a 4051 multiplexer, or with an SPI MCP3008 expander. It also … Continue reading Analog IO Board PCB
Pico, Nano, Micro Keyboard Matrix PCB – Part 2
Here are the build notes for my Pico, Nano, Micro Keyboard Matrix PCB. https://youtu.be/AwFH8FZMkNE Warning! I strongly recommend using old or second hand equipment for your experiments. I am not responsible for any damage to expensive instruments! These are the key Arduino tutorials for the main concepts used in this project: Keyboard Matrix Decode Toy Keyboard … Continue reading Pico, Nano, Micro Keyboard Matrix PCB – Part 2
Pico, Nano, Micro Keyboard Matrix PCB
A number of my projects have involved using a microcontroller (usually an Arduino Nano or a Raspberry Pi Pico) to decode a music keyboard matrix and take some action. This is the basis of all of my "toy keyboard" MIDI controllers for example. This board is a "helper" PCB that makes the job a little … Continue reading Pico, Nano, Micro Keyboard Matrix PCB
Arduino MIDI Telephone Ringer Revisited
A little while after my last set of experiments for a Arduino MIDI Telephone Ringer I found a video from "Gadget Reboot" showing how to use the KS0835F subscriber line module from an Arduino to interface to a phone more easily. So I bought some and this is the start of a set of new experiments … Continue reading Arduino MIDI Telephone Ringer Revisited