Hello, everyone!
During the past couple of days, I managed to put together a very hacky development setup composed of:
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A makeshift ICSP 6-pin connector
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A Bus Pirate v3.6 development board
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A pair of tweezers because the BP is apparently not strong enough to pull RESET low
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A lot of AI tokens
And with the power granted to me by these, I wrote the first Rust-based custom firmware for the MIDI Fighter 64! You can find it here! Open-source, licensed AGPL-3.0, blah blah.
I’ve tested it with a couple of pretty intensive projects for Ableton Live I had lying around, and it seems to be working really well; inputs are responsive, LEDs are super fast, all that fancy stuff, and it keeps the bootloader support that the official firmwares had, so you can always go back to official firmware if you’d like.
Note: this is aimed towards live-performances, “Launchpad style”. If you use the MF64 for other things, remember that my firmware was probably not made with your exact use case in mind, so YMMV!
Enough said though, have an amazing day!