Monday, March 15, 2010
MIDI Pedalboard!
Many months of silence. Too many exams! This new project comes from a real need of studying organ. Since I always dreamed of having a “real” organ all for me, and since Hauptwerk Virtual Pipe Organ has made a “free” limited demo version of their program, time has come to build my own organ console.
The initial project was to build all, manuals, pedals, electronics and software.
The second revision consisted of just a pedalboard, electronics and software, and use a midi keyboard.
Since time is scarce, I managed to obtain a prebuilt pedalboard.
Since time is really scarce, I decided not to build myself all the electronics, but to use the excellent MIDIbox and make the pcbs myself.
Since… well you know, time is scarce I ordered (excellent) prebuild pcbs and components from http://www.mikes-elektronikseite.de.
Now I just had to build the electronics and modify the pedalboard to install switches for the pedals (todo…)
The first step is building the electronics, which I will document today. After all these months I did not even remembered how to turn on my soldering iron!
These are the PCBs, home made but very nice (almost as nice as the ones I make :-P )
First I start with the DIN (digital input) module:
Hey! get off of my box you cat!!
And then is the CORE module:
Half Built!
And finished:
Next time… first power on and debugging session! then software, then tests… eek!
My many thanks go to Andrea Macinanti and Brondino Vegezzi-Bossi Organ builders for helping me obtain the pedalbard!
Monday, November 2, 2009
New Film! And a Slide Duplicator cutting!
Argh! no updates in october! I guess these stupid exams are distracting me too much from my projects! uff! I had very little time but found some to cut an old panagor slide duplicator:
The idea is to use it as a Super8mm duplicator. So I decided to open it up in the read (just under the white glass) so I can insert the film when I need it:
And today my second 16mm film arrived: Young Frankenstein!
I also brought Stagedoor canteen in super 8mm, but this is another story…
PS: Photos and Dremel (exept last) by Peter!
Saturday, September 26, 2009
DELETE * FROM WHITEBOARD;
A quick note. Today I:
- Finally made the titles on my super8 box;
- Finally copleted all the tasks on my whiteboard, so I could erase it completely! yay!
Saturday, August 22, 2009
More Pierina
A nice morning of train-work! Many new details:
I had to make a small modification with the cabin:
I had to rework the chimney:
This is a commemorating image of my messy workspace:
Monday, August 3, 2009
Loco Digi and more Pierina
Thursday and Friday where train work days. And I forgot to put up the photos. Oops!
Well, first of all I digitalized the Roco V200 of FP. I found and interesting quote in the little manual that accompanies the loco (freely translated):
After 30 years of trustfully work the V200 series locos where to be decommissioned, useful only as spare parts. So they where brought from the italian FP to be put on regular service.
And then one wonders why local train service quality is err… questionable.
Well., on to the digi process! This loco is yery easy to open, but internally contains no space at all. Nothing. Nada!I decided firstly to remove the internal PCB, but then I realized it is part of the structure (!) so I decided to cut a hole in te pcb, which will not be used:
This is with the decoder in place:
I tried to wire everything in an orderly fashion:
And this is the loc almost finished:
The decoder is wrapped up in insulating tape, since it will be enclosed in metal:
This is the decoder closed in it’s enclosure:
Saturday was Pierina day. This time nothing special, just drilled some holes and made new handles (which where destroyed by me - oops!)
And these are two of them mounted:
I added some missing pipes:
