diy controller

[Joel Santos]

it's connected as all electrics components are connected for example to an arduino. maybe you should start with simple electronics tutorials. teensy website has some. the analogue are just for analogues but you have more than enough digital inputs even without a matrix like I showed.

its own ort?? check the tutorials on the teensy website.

[soundinsurgent712]

Found this at my local Radio Shack, http://m.radioshack.com/radioshack/p...+with+Netduino
Was wondering is anybody has used one of these kits before??

[Joel Santos]

That is a well known kit but why would you want to go that way? It's too expensive for learning enough to a controller.

http://www.pjrc.com/store/teensypp_pins.html
http://www.pjrc.com/store/tutorial_kit.html
And then buy jumper cables and breadboard on ebay.

There are good tutorials on teensy website. This was the way I've made it.

If you buy the netduino you can't forget that doesn't make direct MIDI so you'll have to get more shields... Teensy does direct MIDI without need for anything else besides basic electronics like buttons.

[soundinsurgent712]

Oh OK, I misunderstood then. I thought that when using a Teensy you had to use a 3rd party application as Well, lol!
OK I see that they show you how to hook up lights but I didn't see info on buttons with led feedback. .... can you point me in the right direction please...

One last thing, with the teensy I can use rotary encoders, right??

[troopa]

That is a well known kit but why would you want to go that way? It's too expensive for learning enough to a controller.

http://www.pjrc.com/store/teensypp_pins.html
http://www.pjrc.com/store/tutorial_kit.html
And then buy jumper cables and breadboard on ebay.

There are good tutorials on teensy website. This was the way I've made it.

If you buy the netduino you can't forget that doesn't make direct MIDI so you'll have to get more shields... Teensy does direct MIDI without need for anything else besides basic electronics like buttons.

so heres my list....
jumpers
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Arduino-Br...item4abfb7c4c2
teensy (with pins)
http://www.pjrc.com/store/teensy_pins.html
breadboard
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/760-Tie-Po...item1e734faf98
buttons
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/SANWA-OBSF...item5639907a31

And then obviously an enclosure and usb lead

All that going to get me on the right track guys?

[Joel Santos]

Oh OK, I misunderstood then. I thought that when using a Teensy you had to use a 3rd party application as Well, lol!
OK I see that they show you how to hook up lights but I didn't see info on buttons with led feedback. .... can you point me in the right direction please...

One last thing, with the teensy I can use rotary encoders, right??

Just google for teeny or arduino. The way to build things is the same and I think that on the tutorials of the teensy there is there a tutorial for buttons also.

so heres my list....
jumpers
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Arduino-Br...item4abfb7c4c2
teensy (with pins)
http://www.pjrc.com/store/teensy_pins.html
breadboard
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/760-Tie-Po...item1e734faf98
buttons
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/SANWA-OBSF...item5639907a31

And then obviously an enclosure and usb lead

All that going to get me on the right track guys?

That is the way I'm building mine and mine has 3 encoders an a lot of buttons. It's not the only way. There is an "instructables" of a guy who use the teensy to do a dj midi controller. Search there. It might help you but even though you should do the basic tutorials of the electronics to understand how things move.

[soundinsurgent712]

Here's a pretty good guide I found, http://m.instructables.com/id/A-Fram...tylish-Modula/
lots of useful info.

[Joel Santos]

yep that's it but once again you should start with the basics which are pretty simple but... it's good knowledge for later adapting. i don't use the framework but I took some code from it and changed and modified it myself. Of course I am a designer and developer so I code but it helped me to understand how electronics work of course. For the button matrix for example.

[soundinsurgent712]

What are some other recommended buttons?? More along the lines of rubber. Never used the arcade buttons but I'm not really feeling their look, lol!

[Joel Santos]

rubber is hard to get. those use micro-switches on the below. i have like 50 of those that i won't be able to use because it's hard to make silicon pads. at least i can't do them.

why don't you just search the web for kind of switches? ebay, sparkfun... there are so many places