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2009-01-10 by ivaasura
Hi together, I am asking myself, if it would be possible (Of course for a reasonable amount of money and work!), to build a hardware LED display for the BCF2000, to use it instead of Husker Vu etc. I am neither a soldering hero, nor an electronic expert, so I would like to know, if somebody here has experience with it. cu Iva Asura
2009-01-13 by Martin Klang
That would be a really neat project, though maybe not a very simple one. I've done some experimenting lately with Arduino [1] boards and they're really neat, and very easy to use. For about GBP 20 / USD 30 you get a complete development / prototyping board with usb connector, and an open-source programming environment. There are also various LCD plug-on modules available [2], and basic MIDI in/out processing is a doodle. The question is how the device would know what to display on the screen. Did you envisage a completely self-sufficient unit that somehow plugs into, or is hacked into, the BCF? Or would it be driven by software on the host computer? How much information needs to be displayed on the screen at once? I've just tried to google Husker VU but can't find any real info. If it is similar to LC Xmu then the screen would have to be quite large. Then something like this solution [3] could not be used. Anyhow, exciting idea, I would love to see someone do something with it. cheers, /m [1] http://arduino.cc/ [2] http://www.google.com/search?&q=arduino%20lcd%20shield [3] http://www.arduino.cc/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1206025987
On 10 Jan 2009, at 17:27, ivaasura wrote: > Hi together, > > I am asking myself, if it would be possible (Of course for a > reasonable amount of money and work!), to build a hardware LED display > for the BCF2000, to use it instead of Husker Vu etc. > > I am neither a soldering hero, nor an electronic expert, so I would > like to know, if somebody here has experience with it. > > cu > > Iva Asura >
2009-01-13 by lorcan_music
You could also check Midibox.org They have a full microchip PIC-base opensource modular system there. Some people have already built several very sophisticated Mackie controller emulations (some with 24 faders, lots of buttons, LCD screens for every channel ...) I'm quite sure you could reuse part of the MidiBox LC project to achieve your goal quite easily, without any or much programming. --- In bc2000@yahoogroups.com, Martin Klang <mars@...> wrote:
> > That would be a really neat project, though maybe not a very simple one. > > I've done some experimenting lately with Arduino [1] boards and > they're really neat, and very easy to use. > For about GBP 20 / USD 30 you get a complete development / prototyping > board with usb connector, and an open-source programming environment. > There are also various LCD plug-on modules available [2], and basic > MIDI in/out processing is a doodle. > > The question is how the device would know what to display on the screen. > Did you envisage a completely self-sufficient unit that somehow plugs > into, or is hacked into, the BCF? > Or would it be driven by software on the host computer? > > How much information needs to be displayed on the screen at once? > I've just tried to google Husker VU but can't find any real info. > If it is similar to LC Xmu then the screen would have to be quite > large. Then something like this solution [3] could not be used. > > Anyhow, exciting idea, I would love to see someone do something with it. > > cheers, > > /m > > [1] http://arduino.cc/ > [2] http://www.google.com/search?&q=arduino%20lcd%20shield > [3] http://www.arduino.cc/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1206025987 > > > On 10 Jan 2009, at 17:27, ivaasura wrote: > > > Hi together, > > > > I am asking myself, if it would be possible (Of course for a > > reasonable amount of money and work!), to build a hardware LED display > > for the BCF2000, to use it instead of Husker Vu etc. > > > > I am neither a soldering hero, nor an electronic expert, so I would > > like to know, if somebody here has experience with it. > > > > cu > > > > Iva Asura > > >
2009-01-13 by lorcan_music