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sineSurfer

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  1. On personal experience, this type of contacts against bare cooper tend have duplicated triggering or fail to make contact sometimes so you need way to improve the contact, there's this material to do the work, haven't tested myself but I've seen it used with good results it seems:

    TINNIT BRIGHT TIN PLATE

    Alternative for the closed circle:

    You could cut away some of the contact circle, just enough to avoid touching the led traces, would be wise to protect those traces too (nail polish comes to mind).

    Another thing to consider, with a top layer only diy pcb you'll have to use surface mount components only.

    Also, seeing the photo again is not clear if there's actually a hole on the pads to be able to use regular leds, if not, maybe holes could be drilled.

  2. Hi patrick and welcome!

    midibox as a drum brain is doable but looks like nobody has made one already so I guess it could be a little bit difficult with no examples to follow, feel free to try though :)

    Also, there are some alternatives, reading all those pages should give you a better idea, and most if not all you can find there could be implemented with midibox core, etc.:

    http://www.edrum.info/

    http://todbot.com/blog/2006/10/29/spooky-arduino-projects-4-and-musical-arduino/

    http://drummaster.thecave.homeunix.org/

  3. Hi JargMarbin, let's see, a couple of months ago I had the very same problem when building my mb6582, I could upload to the first core and then nothing... tried all the tests, each one passed just fine, tried to upload again... nothing, every time the upload failed when almost finished , the core just rebooted itself endlessly, of course I went mad and cursed everybody, including the regulars.

    So I was like wtf is wrong with this?, then it jumped right in front of me: check the fkn midi cables!!!

    And lo and behold, there was one grumpy midi cable, it worked sometimes, conveniently when doing tests, but not when uploading the app, must be that I moved it by accident or something...

    Replaced the bad cable and all went smooth from there!

    My advice, don't take anything for granted, not even the smallest or simplest things, check everything before giving up.

    Btw:

    how many smash's core boards do you think are around the world, without a fault to be found in them?... no, think again, there are more than that number :)

    Take a break from it, check all again and don't hesitate to ask more questions or give more clues, you are welcome to do it, just don't expect to have support right away, you know, we all have a day job after all ;)

    laters!

  4. Easy one to answer, not really a fan of the C64 as I had a Tandy TRS80 back in the day.

    But I'm a musician in search for different sound sources every time, programmer, and also like to build electronic/etc. stuff so the mbSid fits quite well, 2 built so far and one more chip waiting to be desoldered from a C64 board, for a mono CS A version.

  5. Hi and congrats audioguru42!... another one on the green side ;)

    Can I ask wtf have you done with the green paint? :P

    My first thought: "this guy's camera has some color problems", then: "ohhh wait, he got custom panel and knobs!" and then "ahh, hand painted" hehee.

    a little bit "non-pro" but still interesting... and you took the 4 corner screws safety feeling to a whole new level, good job!

    Now... who's next?

    btw. Wilba, do you know how many are alive?

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