{"id":461,"date":"2009-05-16T01:49:37","date_gmt":"2009-05-16T05:49:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glacialcommunications.com\/news\/?p=461"},"modified":"2009-05-16T01:49:37","modified_gmt":"2009-05-16T05:49:37","slug":"busy-building-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glacialcommunications.com\/news\/2009\/05\/busy-building-things\/","title":{"rendered":"Busy building things"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I managed to fix no fewer than three Arduino boards this week &#8211; two had broken battery clip wires &#8211; one of which was my MIDI sequencer that broke during AHMW, and the third apparently wasn&#8217;t actually broken, but just refused to be a Pocket Piano during AHMW. It&#8217;s happy now.<\/p>\n<p>Having fixed the sequencer and APP, I uploaded this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.critterandguitari.com\/phpbbold\/phpBB2\/viewtopic.php?t=560\">polyphonic FM sketch<\/a> into the APP, and then did a tiny bit of recording &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.glacialcommunications.com\/audio\/v2demo1.mp3\">here&#8217;s an excerpt<\/a>. One channel is my MG-1 being sequenced by the sequencer, and the other is the APP being manipulated while playing a chord. As the title implies, this might be a rough sketch of things to come in Volume II (of course it would help if Volume I got released sometime soon! For those curious, Volume I is close, just gotta finish the artwork, mass-produce that, and get it to Ryan&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>Also, the Gristleizer is starting to get Gristle-y. Somebody pointed out an <a href=\"http:\/\/gaussmarkov.net\/wordpress\/circuits\/gristleizer\/#comment-1118\">error in the layout diagram<\/a> that when fixed, made things somewhat happier. I&#8217;m not sure if it&#8217;s perfect yet, but it definitely seems closer to usable. I may fool with it a bit more over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Also also, I got my <a href=\"http:\/\/narrat1ve.com\/\">Where&#8217;s The Party At? 8-bit sampler kit<\/a> and managed to get it finished during some vacation days last week. Lots of fun. Expect a demo or something soon. Trying to figure out an appropriate way of getting voltage control of the sync input. I&#8217;m thinking a CD4046 PLL ought to cover it, but need to do some prototyping and testing. An oscilloscope wouldn&#8217;t hurt either, but I haven&#8217;t got one&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Finally, I put together one of the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.getlofi.com\/?page_id=1395\"> GetLofi APC 2.0<\/a> PCBs I ordered months and months ago. I like it better than the one I built a couple of years ago &#8211; it actually works right!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I managed to fix no fewer than three Arduino boards this week &#8211; two had broken battery clip wires &#8211; one of which was my MIDI sequencer that broke during AHMW, and the third apparently wasn&#8217;t actually broken, but just refused to be a Pocket Piano during AHMW. It&#8217;s happy&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.glacialcommunications.com\/news\/2009\/05\/busy-building-things\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glacialcommunications.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glacialcommunications.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glacialcommunications.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glacialcommunications.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glacialcommunications.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=461"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.glacialcommunications.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":465,"href":"https:\/\/www.glacialcommunications.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461\/revisions\/465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glacialcommunications.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glacialcommunications.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glacialcommunications.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}