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hmm thought you need a recompile for that. anyways update mios and maybe it will work...

sid v2 requires PIC18F4685 sid v1 PIC18F452

riding his +5 hammer of logic, smash-claus circles the world with < 1ms latency. be sure to leave out some solder sponge squeezings and crunchy floor sweepings for him. but don't try to get a glimpse of him...

def thanks to alt. i won't be returning at least one of mine, you can see why when i finish it (hopefully tonight) get up in from underneath, lube it all up, more quads per channel, etc. forget lexan, mylar is the way...

ha! told you them things was no good... *whack*

whatever you do, don't try to build that second montrosity...

me 2

first check it's not inserted backward, then check for solder bridges at the power pins..

might be quicker to sell matches *whack*

out

overrating v on a cap is ok, as long as you have space for it (larger v rating usually means larger cap) underrating is not ok...

perhaps you misunderstood that sentence, since it is a little off topic. we were talking about other ways to get silicon buttons than the sparkfun ones. quality tact buttons don't need to be debounced. if you are questioning the "more durable" part, it is i guess SmashTV's opinion that the sparkfun buttons may wear out sooner. (Not that the guru has nameized me to speak for him *whack*) i think it is a reasonable opinion, since quality tact buttons are rated for millions of pushes...

i ordered from mouser, and face plate was included...

agreed, was glad to see this link. plus i want to see goblins face in cheese...

to clarify: protos were $25 each (which is still less than sparkfun, since one of these == 2 of theirs) talking to SmashTV, it sounds like we can get a small run done for under $15 per brd (about half sparkfun price) with ENIG so contacts should be fine without extra effort required. so for example, to make an 8x8 monome like thing (i think i'll call mine "the thing" since that's what SmashTV has been calling it and he's my guru *whack*), you would need two of these brds and 4 button pads from sparkfun. it might be a good idea to combine a bulk order of button pads with the brds. note that this is not a project for beginners, but it was my first SMD work and wasn't too hard. and way easier than it would have been to wire all the dins and douts on other brds. the second brd went quite quickly since i already had the hang of it. people with steadier hands than mine should have no trouble at all. since you must solder chips directly to brd without sockets, an ESD safe soldering iron is highly recommended.

price for proto's was $25 for 5 of them. only reason to bulk order is to get lower than that. if enough people are interested, i will find out how low we can get it. superbright should work fine, but will need to stay under 13mA or so, if you will light all in a row at once... i thought a bit about using normal plastic caps for tact buttons, and coating them with silicone. this would eliminate the need for debounce and would probably be more durable. but i'm liking these pretty well so far...

sorry, forgot to post a notice. all packages are away. some may arrive this week... everybody email when you receive yours, mmmkay? thnks

woo hoo!

uh oh, mc, you've been outed. where'd you get that photo??? mmmmm maybe even better than led porn (the dark shot) but i don't need leds to talk to extraterrestrials...

yep, most you can hope for is a run of pcbs for this. speaking of, just testing the water here, no promises. let's gauge the interest in a pcb run. is anybody interested at all?

because, as you well know, that would take an extra shift register per brd, and a more difficult routing effort (which was already tough enough). besides, 3 colors ought to be enough for anybody. what are ya gonna do, watch tv on it? you go, girl! indeed!

and now the whole banana 8x8: and the money shot (in the dark): stripping the HASL plating makes the buttons very responsive. i ordered some cool-amp (thanks cimo and SmashTV) which plates bare copper with silver to protect it. but ENIG is definitely the way to go if any new brds are made. the sm_simple app has no debouncing which will be necessary with these buttons so i will be working on that in the example app and also cleaning the code up for public consumption. also there are a few other strangenesses i need to work out...

sorry, this is the u.s. bulk order, and it is closed.

from uCApps: "Another hardware option allows to use 64 instead of 16 GP buttons" i have been thinking i would take this option. since i am new to mb-seq (haven't built yet) i am wondering why you (and sasha) think that is not good? what are the pros/cons etc... should this be a separate topic??

package received! will try to get these in the post on monday...