I actually finished the PCB layout a week ago, but I’ve been letting it sit and making minor changes as I go, little things like part numbers, moving things around etc. I think it’s now pretty much final, so next week after I’ve been paid, I”m going to order 50 of these and see how [...]
Well, after much head scratching, GorF can now be updated via MIDI sysex. It’s not entirely perfect just at the moment as you have to slow the MIDI Sysex stream down a little (other wise you get two or three errors in the download. In Midi-ox you have to set the output buffer size to [...]
I won one, I’m lost for words, totally. I’ve never won anything before in my whole life. Awesome, I can’t wait! Thankyou to everyone who watched my video and helped me win one of these.
Well, I’ve been asked by Highway 5 to stand in for their regular bassist, Ben, as his other band has a gig the other end of town the same night. The gig is the end of March at the FireFly in worcester. highway 5 play some great music and they’re also a great bunch of [...]
Well, I found the problems, two were easy to fix in software (first was that the digits were backwards, so instead of GorF it said FroG, the second was I swapped the F and G segment lines around, which made the letters look a bit screwy), the third problem was my fault, basically I used [...]
Well, the prototype PCB arrived to day. So I built it ;- The parts all fitted, including the ones I had to make PCB footprints for myself. There’s no spacing issues and everything was looking great, and then….. I powered it up, everything powers up fine, but there’s some issues. Firstly it looks like I’ve [...]
Well, I’ve been tinkering with the boot loader code, I did this kind of ‘midi updatable firmware’ before for the Zeit Sequencer main CPU, but that was a few years ago and I’ve forgotten how to do a lot of it, so it’s coming on slowly. I’ve been tinkering with an I2C based EEPROM for [...]
Just got this email from Pcb-Pool.com : The product(s) ordered by you were sent today Your order number:: Xxxxxxxxx Your internal order number: Gorf-pcb-01 Date of your order:: 01/01/2009 Name of layout file: GorF.brd, Should be with me in a day or two, I’ll post pictures when it arrives and take pictures during assembly. I’m [...]
It is with great sadness that I’ve decided to leave Ten Fifty. I’m not going to go into the reasons why here, but I feel it’s time for me to move on. I would like to thank the guys, Frank, Kristian and Jim, for some great times and for giving it 100%. I wish them [...]
Well, finally after two days of coding, head scratching and some help from Marc (cheers Marc, it’s much appreciated) I’ve now got a command line tool for my mac that takes an Atmel .ROM file and converts it into a file suitable for transmission over midi as a sysex file. I’ll almost certainly post the [...]