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!
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!
Tuesday, June 2, 2009
Harpsichord!
Saturday 30 was the day! My harpsichord was finished I went all the way to Pietrasanta to get it!
It is a medium-sized Italian instrument. It is not a completely philological copy, but well, since I can afford only one istrument… The maker is Roberto Marioni
A couple pics:
Obviously backlit…
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
Are letters BORING??
Yesterday I discovered, with great delight, that in Italy post stamps take a long time to become invalid. Yes, as 2009 stamps from 1967 are still valid! Good ol’ Peter found a nice elderly man who sells little batches of old stamps - which are still valid for sending mail (yes, real mail!). Forget the euro, these are all in Lire! So now sending a letter is MUCH more fun!
So, since Lira stamps come in small values, and since mail is expensive, we have found a new hobby: Stamp Puzzles!
We have to find a pattern here…
And this is out little masterpiece (for the moment). Yes, those stamps are equivalent to 3.90 euros!
Now remains the problem: who is interested in receiving letters?
Sunday, September 14, 2008
On top of spaghetti…
…all covered with cheese, I lost my poor meatball!
I generally do not photograph ordinary cooking, but I’m so proud of my polpette I made Wednesday!
