[DIY] Another MF clone, help appreciated

[electricniels]

After reading and learning a lot on this forum, I decided to make a MF clone with an xbox controller as the brain. With little to none experience with electronics I was suprised to see I got everything working, I managed to hook up my arcade-buttons to the PCB. I even got the thing to work with my Macbook+Traktor through JunXion, but when i tried to put everything in a wooden case I build for it, I somehow damaged the print and after connecting it again I fried it, making it useless...

After this ego boosting experience, and some troubles with mapping the thing while it was still working (conflicting D-pad buttons and bad response of the analog sticks). I decided to give it a try with an Arduino as the brain of my project.

This is the design I have in mind for the project:


And the material I gathered already:

The toppanel of my screwed up start with my buttons

A case I saved from the dumpster at work, planning on spraying the top white and laminating the sides with a wood pattern vinyl

The inside of the case, as you can see: lot's of space

The top again, with the wood pattern vinyl

And again with the Brain on it!

I want to give this approach of MIDI via USB as mentioned in the Arduino thread a try: http://shiftmore.blogspot.com/2010/0...-over-usb.html

My question is: has anyone of you got this to work, and are you willing to share some code, as I have no clue on where to start with the coding of the Arduino.

Edit: Sorry about the bad english, Dutch guy here...

[DJTechMag]

Very interesting, am sorry I cant help I havent a clue about how to make a midi device, but it looks well cool.

[kilobytekaushik]

the midi over arduino would limit you, in case of making channel/scenes/pages. till now i havent seen any good midi shield for arduino because it has so less memory, and would give a considerable lag.so its best to run a midi serial app, its quite small maybe kbs.

[MiL0]

djnecro or siytek are probably your best bet for advice

[electricniels]

the midi over arduino would limit you, in case of making channel/scenes/pages. till now i havent seen any good midi shield for arduino because it has so less memory, and would give a considerable lag.so its best to run a midi serial app, its quite small maybe kbs.

The plan is to use te workaround with this device:


But I don't know what kind of data the arduino has to send to get it working. I'm going to use it with traktor, I'm not sure what you mean with scenes and pages but I need only pretty straight forward functions. I just want my buttons and faders to work with Traktor, and if possible without having to use drivers or programs like JunXion.

djnecro or siytek are probably your best bet for advice

Let's hope this thread gets their attention then