Hi guys,
Will this combine with the Brain Jr to give me what I need? Are there any other components that I need?
I found the livid wiki pages for the Elements and Brain Jr. I can see that the elements components use 10 pin ribbon cables to connect to the brain patchboard. I would rather not have to buy the large patchboard both because if it's size and the price. Hence why I'm considering the Brain Jr which is cheaper and smaller. As far as I can tell (and I'm a total newb) the Brain Jr doesn't have 10 pin inputs but I presume it shouldn't be too challenging to rewire it with jumper cables or something.
I would really appreciate any advice or assurance before I jump in and start buying parts.
Thanks!
Sharma
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Hi Moon, thanks for the advice. Do you have any idea if/when Livid will stock these products again? Alternatively, how complex would it be to replicate this using an Arduino or Teensy Board or something.
One more thing, is there some documentation somewhere that would tell me how the 2x5 pin header is wired for 4k4f component? I've not been able to find it on the Livid Wiki.
Thanks!
Ok, I think I might be slowly wrapping my head round this.
I've found this info on the Omni RGB wiki page, that may have answered my last question.
"All analog headers consist of a common ground(Gnd) and power(VCC) that all pots share on that header, as well as an individual “wiper” pin for each specific potentiometer on that header."
Hey Moon,
Hi Sharma, want to share your Teensy code?
Sure. I'd don't have much experience in programming (just a little bit that I've picked up) so there may well be a more elegant way of doing it. My starting point was this guys tutorial: http://djtechtools.com/2015/08/25/how-to-make-your-own-diy-midi-controller/
However I further modified the code in a few ways.
Also I set a normalisation value (global variable: norm) to define the smallest value that the controller would send to the computer. In the end I set it as 2 (that's midi value 2). I had it as 1 at first but was finding sometimes the current would still fluctuate but magnitudes greater than 1 and as a result send midi date when I hadn't touched the controller.
Anyway, here's my code. I'm no expert but happy to share my reasoning. Have to split this across a few posts due to the character limit.
PART 01
PART 2