Jaco’s Random Writings

So here it is. The project page for “Duimdla” is posted up. Why so long after the project has been completed for almost a month now? Simple, side projects, the hunt for a job, and the arduous task of making sure all the documentation for the project was up to scratch and that the proper [...]

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Ahoy, folks. Hope everyone had a good winter break and whatnot. The New Year has started and a war has started just in time to see it in. But I’m not going to talk about that. Instead, I’m going to talk everything else.
So it’s no mystery that ‘08 wasn’t exactly a waltz through a rose-garden. [...]

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The project has been finished. Well, this iteration has been finished, anyway. In the long term, there are at least one more iteration to go. For this one, the result is quite nice. There are a few problems that need to be sorted out software-wise, but the hardware is done and ready to go. Here [...]

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Sorry about the delay, folks. I’ve been very busy. However, to make sure you guys aren’t completely in the dark, I have taken plenty of pictures of my progress for you to oggle at. I had to exclude some pictures of the PC Board I soldered for the Pre-Amp as they came out completely fuzzy. [...]

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Ahoy folks!
Been a while. I’ve been a busy man. So here is the progress report. On the side of the circuit, I have the chip reading the input (though it is still a little low). It outputs to Serial a string that says “NoteOn” followed by the velocity (how hard I struck the prong) when [...]

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