Turnthetables

Yup, I'm talking about 4 digital buttons. how about led's? No prob again as they are on/off (digital) correct?

hello, I hope I put this question in the right forum. I'm working on my midibox project and I'm thinking of mounting my buttons in my turntables and routing the wires to my midibox that will sit behind my mixer. I'm not really familiar with electronics building and I was wondering if the wires that connect the buttons to the midi box have a "max length"? I'm figuring that in my scenario they would be about 22" inches....

Alrighty, I have my optical sensor and I'm looking at the Diagram: http://www.midibox.org/forum/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=11167.0;attach=3959;image so the touch sensor goes to j8 the third pin which is SI? and what about the LED's? and Led picker-uper? I wired my MB for J5A and J5B Where do I plug them into? Thanks, t3

Rasteri, What is the recommened resolution of the encoder wheel? and by 360 steps you have half opaque correct? I am asking because I may get my encoder laser engraved from ABS plastic, but I need to know whats going on ;). I've seen you throw up two disk files one that was 360 and one that was 2048. I was thinking maybe 512 steps.... and what software are you using to make your wheels?

ademir, Can you read Minds? I'm actually posting pictures of hdd jog wheel mount... I grinded (ground isn't a word in this sense, right?) the base of the enclosure to be flat and I'm going to mount the encoder wheel on the base of the HDD spindle, use that cool little spacer to give me some space ;) and mount the jog wheel (CD) on top. now rasteri, If i were to connect the touch sensor wire to the spindle with a conductive jog wheel on top would it work? The spindle is aluminum I believe, But don't quote me on that...

The bearing is a good Idea... I'm going to see what I can do...

My Midibox is almost done, I'll post pics soon... Now Rasteri... I cam across this recently and I was wondering if this would work... http://www.instructables.com/id/HDDJ_Turning_an_old_hard_disk_drive_into_a_rotary/ It's an Instructable about using a HDD as a Rotary device.... I Have 3 Old HDD's laying around that I'm willing to bust open but, my question is... they add "comparators" to the unit. The Midibox chip has them built in correct? your code uses um, So could I just wire up a HDD in place of the optical encoder and get the same results? Thanks, TurntheTables

Ok, my MBHP has arrived! Woohoo! I'm going to build tommorrow with my electronics/programming buddy who is interested in what I'm up to. What needs to be changed in the code for it to work with this r9 resistor in place? I'm willing to write code ( would be my first Mios app, but I've coded before) if you can explain what needs to happen... psuedocode or words.. anyhow you want to explain....

thank you much sir... tallyho... I just always wanted to say that... do ppl on the other side of the pond say that alot?

Ok, mine is probably going to end up being like 5.5 inches or close to that... when I build my MBHP i could essentially test with just an encoder wheel and my mouse sensor correct.. make a spindle for the encoder and spin it... I'm going to try to make a few different sized encoder wheels and test them out..... I want to try CD size, a little bit bigger and 7 inch.... Do you know if there is a list of mios functions around? I want to study rasteri's code , I understand the syntax, but I would like to see like a list of mios functions if at all possible... does anybody know of one?

well, I'm sure stryd_one wouldn't mind helping me figure out what needs to be changed... ;) the acetate sheets you used, were they as thick as a CD/DVD? or were they "filmy" ? I also plan to make the platter the size of a cd, could I scale down the encoder wheel or do I need a new one? Thanks for all your help rasteri!

thanks, I'll check that out...

18F452 18F4620..... my bad ;D

ok cool, I remember reading that it could do analog or digital, now I've looked at this thread a bunch of times and I'm confused about the PIC, will it run on the 52 now? I remember at some point it wouldn't...... or the 20... I'm not sure what I read now, but I just want to make sure that the chip I got on the way, will work! I got a 20 on the way..... EDIT: I have a 20 on the way not a 52!

the sensors ( rotary enc and the touch) are going to go to the j5 connector port correct, according to smashtv's doc on his site it says can be used for digital in or digital out.... my next question is , why no r9 resistor, what does that do? thanks for answering my questions guys.. I'm pumped, rasteri was right! you guys are crazy helpful!