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There is an easy way to make stuff snap fit.  I use illustrator but the process should be the same for any program: Draw the "hole" part first, set the stroke to 0.2mm (this is the kerf, the material the laser burns away), then outline the stroke.  The outside line will be extents of the resulting hole.  Do the same thing to that outer line (stroke for 0.2mm and outline stroke) for the mating part but in the opposite direction (in) so the final hole size and the cutout part have the same dimensions when you take the laser beam width into consideration.  The laser never cuts perpendicular to the material, there is always a little angle and the parts will snap toghether

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Thanks for the tip, Altitude! I was nervous about using that method because I didn't trust the tolerances for them to match up exactly.

 

In fact, as I mentioned, that's the problem I had with the "friction bumps" I added to the windows: they should have extended quite a bit past the outline of their respective hole - but they didn't.

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I used to make a several parts with slightly different dimensions but I never do anymore, the kerf is consistent enough that it will snap in, it will either be a little tighter or looser but always enough..

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Hi sneak: the PCBs I designed (TK has some protos) use two Schmitt triggers to buffer an incoming clock. From discussions with TK, the clock input will go to a dedicated pin on the STM32F4; it is connected via the second set of pins on the top row. Hope that helps.

 

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Just a couple more in-progress teaser shots. It's going to be a while longer because I don't have much time in Feb.

 

To do: a few more front-panel holes to carefully counter-sink (thanks for the advice FFWD!), lots of internal mounting to finish with ...namely the button boards.

 

And finally, lots of soldering to do (DIN, DOUT, Line Drivers, OLED's, buttons, the whole CV panel, etc.)

 

Sneak-Thief_MIDIbox_CV2_B.jpg

 

Sneak-Thief_MIDIbox_CV2_A.jpg

 

For the CV-section, I chose:

 

- 8 CV

- 8 Gates  (with LED's driven by the DOUT)

- 8 CV In

- 5 Clocks (with LED's driven by the DOUT)

- Run/Stop

- Clock in

 

 

Sneak-Thief_MIDIbox_CV2_Out.jpg

 

 

 

Notes on the interface:

 

- 8 buttons to choose which CV channel you're working on

- 4 buttons to choose the OLED and its parameters

- Start, Stop buttons

- Record/Save patch

- Fast-forward: fast shift-key for when turning the encoders

- Patch +/-

- Encoder Bank +/-

- 4 assignable buttons (I, II, III, IV)

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Hi

 

Could somebody be nice enough to compile an uploadable hex or bin file for my newly built stm32f4 core ?

I would like to do some UI testing with SCS and 24X2 LCD

 

TIA

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Hi

 

I just tried Sneakthief's hex but the lcd displays a first line full of blocks nothing else.

 

Here is the MIOS Studio outpout : SD Card not found

 

I tried the Seq V4 on my core and everything worked as it should...

 

any ideas ?

 

Michel

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Did you try plugging the LCD into the other connector? It's supposed to be in J15a.

Since MBSeqV4 uses both LCDs, maybe you have it in the wrong one?

Not sure about the SD card problem. I didn't notice any errors when I compiled it, but who knows.

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MIOS Terminal seems to report everything is OK (apart from the SD Card issue).

Yes I tried J15A and J15B without any differences.

 

Also I was expecting to use ilmenator's SCS but it connects to J8/9.

Is it possible to get it work with two LRE8X2 ( TK ? )

 

Best

 

Michel

   
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The LRE's are just chained on J8/J9 while the SCS is on J10:

 

 

DIN/DOUT (buttons, LRE, Gate Outs)

 

- J8/J9 (MBHP_CORE_LPC17)

- J8/J9 (MBHP_CORE_STM32F4)

 

 

SCS buttons & encoder

- J10 (MBHP_CORE_LPC17)

- J10A (MBHP_CORE_STM32F4)

 

 

 

More info here:

 

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Oh, I see what happened - the English used in the second sentence is somewhat ambiguous:

 

"Also I was expecting to use ilmenator's SCS but it connects to J8/9.

Is it possible to get it work with two LRE8X2 ( TK ? )"

 

I thought he was asking if it's possible to 1) use your SCS and 2) to get MIDIbox CV2 to work with 2 LRE8X2. 

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The Standard Control Surface has to be connected to J10A

 

Connection to J8/9 isn't the standard - means: most applications (such as MBCV V2) don't support this.

In addition, Ilmenator's SCS based PCB has some additional button and encoder functions which are not supported by most apps as well - only by his own app.

 

The good news: Ilmentator created a new PCB with the actual SCS circuit which can be directly connected to J10A :smile:

 

Best Regards, Thorsten.

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