Hard pressed

You know you're hard pressed for money when you dream you have an extra electric guitar you don't use, and you plan to sell it to finance another music project.

Oh ArduinoBoy if only I had the money to finish you by buying a programmable cartridge and a cable. At least the main electronics are soldered and waiting. Sigh
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Close but so far...

Now my monome works and the stupid FTDI windows driver won't. Its heavily annoying but I guess someday soon I'll have another crack at it. Right now I just wanna finish my arduinoboy and that needs a gameboy cable and a programmable cartridge. Funding that is a pain though. Oy poor student days really suck.
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Long overdue

The MIDI box 128 nears completion, just a pity I lost a drill bit in the process cos now the LCD with the cable already attached needs 3mm holes to get mounted.

I'll have to see how I mount or join the neck to the brain box but seeing as today is Arduinoboy day I'll worry about that later.
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Tricky for me

Sometimes I think that having this bad wiring or crap hand eye co-ordination really screws up what I want to be able to play musically, but then I find ways around that lot.

I'm really glad my voice doesn't need coordinating and whistling a melody into the blackberry's voice recorder is great for saving the inspiration.

Now if I can just get my makeshift Ztar/MIDIbox 128 working with a good tactile feedback, (hopefully not too clicky and a shallow touch) I'll be geared to sequence up a storm.

it would also be great if the sparkfun buttons in my monome had a shallower touch but I'm also just glad its working and finally finished.

Now if only monomeserial would behave and actually work.... Oy.

SID synth and makeshift Ztar... You're next, and when the java practical exam is done in a few hours I'm mentally freed to do a few undone things. Mmm better get my Reason 4 serial number if I'm going re-install.... So much to do and only one life... Limited time... Never rolls at the speed we want :)
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The next in line

Is my gameboy / arduinoboy project and today the arduino part arrived. With the exception of a cartridge programmed with mGB I'm nearly there, well.... Almost now to buy commponents and lay out the design on prototype board.
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One down a few to go

And here it is the finished monome.... Finally. Not as neat as a waterjet cut but it works, and that's my first concern.
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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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