#120

@carvingcode @jasonw22

documentation is now my top priority. just finished building and shipping the last units.

thanks for your patience and i apologize the docs weren’t polished on launch. they will be soon!

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#121

No worries @tehn. I’m no less than thrilled about everything as usual!

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#122

w00t! And congrats!

Regarding docs generally, we’ve got a new community repo https://github.com/monome-community/monome-docs for collecting user-contributed/maintained docs. Nothing much to see yet but @laborcamp’s arc recall sheets may already come in handy (look in the arc subdirectory). Also, do feel free to use the issue tracker to collect ideas for things you’d like to see documented. Maybe we can all pitch in and help @tehn out. :smiley:

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Ansible / Grid journey begun, + problems
#123

Had a lot of fun with Ansible and Arc last night. One thing I did notice, was the header for ansible to connect to the teletype seems to be flipped, which makes it almost impossible to connect. Anyway to connect this in an easier fashion? I’ll also be adding a White Whale soon, so I will need to explore how to add that in the mix as well.

Ansible on the left.

I will say, so awesome how a USB cable was included with the Ansible, which I assume is because a new firmware will be available soon. Also, a long-ish cable was included to connect to the teletype, but having an Earthsea and Meadowphysics to also connect makes me unable to use that.

#124

i have a ii “busboard” ready that i’ll be posting about soon, specifically for your situation. i’m sorry there’s not a good solution until then, but soon!

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#125

That’s great to hear. Really looking forward to this as my ansible makes 5 modules now. Perhaps future revisions could feature two sets of pins so they can be daisy chained.

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#126

Great to hear! I’ll keep a look out.

#127

any information when the next batch will be ready?

#128

New batch of Arc in about two weeks time according to this thread:

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#129

finally some stock at EFN :smile: whoop whoop!

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#130

Any idea when analog haven will be getting their stock?

#131

AH got a box of Ansible some time ago. Arcs will take a couple weeks, along with EFN. We have a few Arcs available for sale direct while we built up the larger orders for retailers.

#132

Thanks tehn - I’ve already paid shawn so I guess I’m a waitin’ :slight_smile:

#133

Okay, I sold my White Whale now to get Ansible and it arrived today. I need clocked Kria and thought I might get an Arc anyway someday so it might be worth the expense.

Now when I tried to build it in the case and connect it to teletype I found that the i2c connector sits in a place where the i2c cable teletype came with does not reach it and it is upside down, compared to the other three connectors of teletype, earthsea and meadowphysics.

The i2c cable supplied with the module only has one connector - how is this meant to work? Am I just too dumb?

See ansible next to teletype here with its i2c connector on top:

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#134

Yep, this is the reason that there was an announcement about an ii-bus board:

You could of course, make up your own cable with more connectors and/or a longer reach.

#135

Okay, it seems that I overlooked that. And I see that it is right a few posts above in this thread - there are a lot of Ansible threads around here!

EDIT: I took a walk and deleted the parts that were mostly expressing my momentary feelings but would not bring the discussion further nor provide a comfortable ambiance. And I see that we might have more important issues today of all days then hardware connections.

#136

Okay, I might calm down later - where do I get this freaky i2c bus board?

#137

Or did I just get something wrong?

Is Ansible meant to connect primarily to Just Friends?

Then the single cable coming with Anisble and the discontinuation of the trilogy modules would make some more sense to me.

But what will happen to teletype then?

#138

That seems like a lot of stressing for a relatively cheap part (https://market.monome.org/collections/primary/products/ii-bus-board). Or as per the previously linked thread, you could make your own. I don’t know why the connector on Ansible was moved but I’m sure there’s a good reason (I’ve never tried to design circuit boards, but imagine getting everything into a small board presents certain challenges).

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#139

The relatively cheap part may double in price once you ship it to Europe. Not speaking of sitting at the custom office for two hours.

It seems that I already entered the past-cursing-phase and I see you are trying to help but I don’t think that doing my own board is a suitable solution in this case since I have no idea how one does ones own PCB’s (Well, I have an idea but that’s about acid tubs and stuff like that) and I assume it would go way beyond 16 USD plus shipping to Europe/taxes and far more of a hassle to let one of them being manufactured somewhere (I have no idea and would happily get corrected here).

I can’t imagine how this decision was made without thinking of the people supporting monome by buying their modules in the past. Why not saying hey, the old i2c cable does not fit anymore with Ansible - if you already have the old one with your teletype, get in contact with your dealer, we supply him with some longer ones for those existing customers.

Instead they include a USB cable within the module - great, another one!