new turns

So the waterjet cut never happened, but, my java unit 3 project is done. So now its a little studying that's past and hopefully my projects can partially resume.

Now if only I can get enough money for the aluminium blocks for my steadicam. I wonder about the idea of prototyping some parts with wood ....mmmm
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Waterjet cut and its done

This week sees a waterjet cut plate for the monome and hopefully a cartridge for the gameboy mGB hack. I'm looking forward to the arduino brain arriving. Should be about 10 days..... I hope
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Tools tools tools

If you don't have the tools you can't do the job....

For the first time in my life I now feel I have enough tools to finally begin doing something, and, making some money.

Steadicam, drum sander, SID synths, monomes and MIDI will now soon scream ahead....

I just need some help re-arranging the workspace and getting it all up and going.

Oy, again, sooooo much to do....
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More spring

Actually currently its like more autumn. But the change of season is refreshing and I steadily face new changes, some welcome some not.

Parts continue to collect for the steadicam and it becomes steadily more a lathe issue...mmmm
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More bits still...

The steadicam project gains speed, or more specifically parts.
Now I need my lathe going and some aluminium and about 16 skateboard bearings, amongst other things.

It seems like I might crack this quite soon. That however does depend on the abundance of parts.
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Drill time -1024 holes

So I've been lazy but now its within reach. I just need to drill holes where I punched and the cut out the remaining polyethylene.
Not the best material, cos it scratches but it was cheap and hopefully makes triggering easier because I went with a 10mm piece. So this will be the plate inside "the box of tricks".

Then I suppose its java coding time with the skymonome library,
and I can do it but right now I'm soooo lazy.

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Another option

Finally some extremly kind soul made a hack to turn a bliptronic 5000 toy synth into a usable monome.

I'm thinking using more than one of these can make the coolest ztar but with LED feedback. I'll start with one bliptronome and see the size of the button matrix first(cos I've got big guitarist paws.. LOL)

Although my longsuffering monome build is now finally within reach I still want a more compact solution for a 4 octave wearable and programmable ztar device.

So now again much much more excitement and kudos to Wil for his work enabling this. You're the man dude!!
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