Generic modding tips.
Generic modding tips. Posted on: 20.05.2011 by Shay Wyche A lot of the information on the site is being repeated quite a lot. Maybe it would be useful to have one thread that has generic info about the most popular subjects.For instance, I have lost count the amount of times I have posted links to PS2 controller to usb converters. I'm sure Milo and a few others are also a little bit fed up re-posting things over and over (not that we don't want to help - we do - but it means hunting for old posts that we have dredged up a few times before) I don't want to get bogged down with specific builds, just the kind of things that can be used on any controller. For instance the wiring diagram of how to wire an LED button from a 5v (usb) supply or a training video on soldering If the idea catches on, maybe it could get sticky-ed? | |
| Herma Buschelman 13.02.2013 |
Originally Posted by techro
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| Herma Buschelman 12.02.2013 |
Originally Posted by techro
yes, i just took the keys off of a keyboard, glued some pennys(2) onto two rows of keys, and voila...button controller. heres the keyboard 'Smart Touch Mini USB TouchPad Keyboard' |
| Herma Buschelman 12.02.2013 |
Originally Posted by techro
yes, i just took the keys off of a keyboard, glued some pennys(2) onto two rows of keys, and voila...button controller. heres the keyboard 'Smart Touch Mini USB TouchPad Keyboard' |
| Herma Buschelman 03.02.2013 |
Originally Posted by fbonito
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| Herma Buschelman 03.02.2013 |
Originally Posted by vanaema78
in as much as any "mod" can be, I suppose. |
| Weldon Dilg 13.02.2013 | Hm netbooks don't run Core2Duo processors though, pentium D's which are even slower. Ill give it a go and get back to ya, I could always just use an older version, i remember back when 1.5ghz and 1gb ram was the recommended spec. |
| Herma Buschelman 13.02.2013 |
Originally Posted by techro
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| Weldon Dilg 13.02.2013 | Would it really not run? The official website says any c2d and 2gb ram, could easily upgrade the ram. As for the processor, all their fancy usb addons/scratch 'require' 2ghz so im gonna give it a go anyway may work quite well. |
| Herma Buschelman 12.02.2013 |
Originally Posted by techro
yes, i just took the keys off of a keyboard, glued some pennys(2) onto two rows of keys, and voila...button controller. heres the keyboard 'Smart Touch Mini USB TouchPad Keyboard' |
| Herma Buschelman 12.02.2013 |
Originally Posted by techro
yes, i just took the keys off of a keyboard, glued some pennys(2) onto two rows of keys, and voila...button controller. heres the keyboard 'Smart Touch Mini USB TouchPad Keyboard' |
| Weldon Dilg 12.02.2013 | Looks pretty cool, Ill soon be doing similar but without a battery - Been donated an old core2duo sony vaio with a dead battery, snapped power port, barely usable trackpad and fried hard disk. Those buttons somewhat confuse me. Have you ripped all the keys off the laptop keyboard and replaced some of them with coins? Plan is to rip out the hard disk and battery and internalise the power brick. In the available space Ill put a fast usb stick booting puredyne, alongside one of those el cheapo small 5.1 usb sound cards stripped down to the bare board. Not sure at this point whether to try and expose the front plate as is (if possible) or just solder on 1/4 inch ports and attach them somewhere to the chassis. Another idea I was toying with was to use an old wooden case/box with a hinge down the middle. Would make fitting everything easier and could probably be made quite neat. A deep enough one should provide a nice way of keeping the laptop safe from adjacent drinks at house parties! Also does anyone know if a 1.8ghz c2d with a gig of ram will run traktor/vdj without issue? |
| Herma Buschelman 12.02.2013 | |
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| Herma Buschelman 03.02.2013 |
Originally Posted by fbonito
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| Herma Buschelman 03.02.2013 |
Originally Posted by vanaema78
in as much as any "mod" can be, I suppose. |
| Jacqualine Arroyos 03.02.2013 | you say that this is "madd cheap" ?? |
| Edwina Fagel 02.02.2013 | You are talking about other companies stealing your creations when your next big thing is gonna be a mix of other peoples creations on youtube? Wise words. |
| Herma Buschelman 02.02.2013 |
Originally Posted by fbonito
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| Natasha Reddaway 30.01.2013 | ooooh what a tease, looking forward to hearing about it, just make sure you take the appropriate precautions! Cheers Dazzler |
| Herma Buschelman 30.01.2013 |
Originally Posted by fbonito
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| Jacqualine Arroyos 30.01.2013 |
Originally Posted by Buckner
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| Herma Buschelman 30.01.2013 | i believe hacking is about to go crazy. don't want to spill the beans on what I am doing just yet, but it's madd cheap, and I believe everybody will want to do it. |
| Weldon Dilg 18.12.2012 |
Originally Posted by kwheels
Does look good but the guy programming it is really taking his time! |
| Bon Finix 13.12.2012 | no, that won't work unless you find a way to hack the firmware of your Cuemaster to support RGB leds. If you just want to have a static color around your buttons, it is possible to wire the leds so they get power from your Cuemaster. |
| Dick Korus 12.12.2012 | Hey, looking to mod my cuemaster with RGB lights similar to that of the midi fighter 3d. Here's what I found: http://www.paradisearcadeshop.com/en...led-rings.html Will this work? If so how could I make it work and take advantage of all three colors? Any help would be great! Thanks! |
| Ellis Lingelbach 19.11.2012 | Not exactly what your talking about, but I've been eyeing this for a while.... http://hackaday.com/2012/08/31/raspb...ated-hardware/ |
| Bon Finix 29.06.2012 | Couldn't find it in this thread, so i guess i can add it if you don't mind to program your own firmware and want MIDI over USB: the TeensyUSB; It has the same chip as the midifighter. |
| Tona Kubas 20.06.2012 | Cheers.. Do you believe that is possible to the Pi to run MicroXp and Rebirth?? If so you could build a workstation machine.. |
| Arcelia Siebeneck 27.03.2012 | here's some more info about the i/o board: |
| Kiyoko Wellisch 09.03.2012 | Maybe you're right. Now that I look again midi brains seem to cost a lot more than I remember them doing so... |
| Arcelia Siebeneck 09.03.2012 | why would it take any more time to program a Pi than to program a microprocessor like the Atmel in an Arduino? The Pi has far more programming langugages available for it so it would potentially be easier! of course, if you're talking about a Livid, Highly Liquid, UMC-32 or a similarly pre-programmed midi brain then that's a different matter. But then you're losing the flexibility and (generally speaking) paying a lot more. Livid Brain = $189 Raspberry Pi = |
| Kiyoko Wellisch 09.03.2012 | I still find it very hard to believe you couldn't find a suitable midi brain for equal cost that won't require you to put anywhere near so much work into it. |
| Arcelia Siebeneck 09.03.2012 |
Originally Posted by MrPopinjay
Funding Unsuccessful
This project reached the deadline without achieving its funding goal 1 day ago. |
| Arcelia Siebeneck 09.03.2012 | I really like the idea of using a Raspberry Pi in a midi project actually. I believe it might be more useful to use in conjunction with something like an Arduino though:
Eben Upton: "A friend of ours wrote a lot of the NXT software, so we're already believeing about how to hook up a Pi. I believe what Stefan suggests should work, though it can be a tricky thing to get working. We hope to see a lot of this sort of thing, where the Pi is used to add extra processing capability to popular but less-powerful systems like Mindstorms and Arduino. The face recognition plan sounds like it would benefit from a camera add-on board or the micro-Pi I mentioned earlier; we need to get cracking on that."
But it doesn't have any suitable connections...?
to the OP - I've already started a thread about the Pi here - http://community .djranking s.com/showthread.php?t=45312 |
| Kiyoko Wellisch 29.02.2012 | But it doesn't have any suitable connections...? And I'm no expert but wouldn't you'd need to install a minimal linux distro, find suitable software and compile it for ARM if it does exist and make it yourself if it does not and then you'd have to configure it all find a way to make it communicate with another computer nicely and eurgh. Sounds like an INCREDIBLE amount of work when you can just get an entire computer behave like a midi brain. You'd still need to sort out the hardware side of it after that... Get a midi brain. This project looks cool. http://www.synthtopia.com/content/20...di-controller/ |
| Edwina Fagel 29.02.2012 | It's ridicolusly powerful for a midi brain and could handle tons of inputs outputs. + it's soo god damn cheap and i have to use it somehow. |
| Kiyoko Wellisch 29.02.2012 | Why would you want to do that? It'd be cheaper and easier just to buy a midi brain. |
| Edwina Fagel 29.02.2012 | Didn't want to make a new thread but, does anyone have a idea how to make a midi brain of the new raspberry pi computer? |
| Madge Humrich 30.08.2011 | was the wiki ever made? |
| Delmar Swamy 12.07.2011 | Did you guys ever Set up the Wiki? If not, I'll set it up and let you guys have at it XD |
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