#128

And the sound quality is good? The quality out of the headphones port on my raspberry Pi 3b is horrible, but maybe that’s been improved in future revisions?

Edit: or maybe you are talking about driving headphones from the codec’s lineouts?

#129

It’s from the norns shield outs i presume.

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#130

this is correct.

the additional driver chip simply provides extra gain (and a separate jack).

#131

This is fantastic news! Are you still planning to do a run of boards with the SMD components pre-soldered?

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#132

I have printed some boards based on the Eagle files on October 7…Am I safe assuming they are the same as the ones currently posted? (I see last commit date is Sept 15…so I guess there were no edits to the boards themselves…)

#133

I think you and I (I put in an OSH Park order yesterday) will be the owners of rare Revision 1 boards:

but it sounds like that won’t be a huge change, and older boards could probably be updated by cutting a few traces and doing some extra soldering… @tehn will that be worth it, in your opinion?

#134

like i said, the boards work. we have a bunch of them between the core devs. not sure you’ll need to add resistors.

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#135

yoooooo. someone holler when this is an easily purchaseable, buildable kit for us ludites!
need some norns yo.

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#136

doesn’t sound like monome will be offering kits directly but there’s no reason why someone here couldn’t organize something like that (or check out fates instead, for which kits are being offered albiet in limited quantities at the moment)

I’ve considered selling some builds but given my time I’ll likely just be putting out some cases

in a parallel train of thought, it would be smart to put together some detailed build instructions for the monome docs aimed at beginners, so maybe kits are less necessary - I’d be down to help out.

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#137

i’ll be producing a run of SMD-populated boards, but not likely full kits. (definitely nothing with enclosures.)

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#138

oh and opinions ?? would I be smarter to find another SMT project to start with or should I just dive in with some PCB backups if I’m excited about it (I am excited about it).

also any more tool req’s before I dive in

State of the art SMD/DIY best practices
#139

any plans on an aluminium enclosure?

#140

if it happens - just laser cut birch or acrylic. I’ll try n make em nice tho. will post info here

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#141

I’m in a similar boat maybe - never really done any DIY electronics stuff, but this is the first one that’s really appealed to me, and I’m naively hoping that my enthusiasm for it (and some backup components + some research :wink: ) will carry me through this project hehe

#142

While I don’t really do any DIY at the moment, I used to do a ton and am happy to offer tips on soldering etc in general and SMD specifically.
Maybe a separate build related thread or a more general DIY/soldering etc thread?

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#143

I’m hoping to get my hands on one of these sooner than later to see if I could feasibly do a small run of milled aluminum enclosures. Will report back with any progress if I can find the resources!

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#144

If you got the access to the milling equipment, something like this for the FATES would rule… just saying… :wink:

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#145

that’s cool man! back in the day i would have fucked around with figuring it all out… these days it’s make noise in every spare minute. norns is pretty amazing dude. keep killing it!

#146

I sprang for the boards when I realized that the DIY Mutable Shades build I did a year or two ago was also 603. That was really straightforward, dare I say even empowering. Not sure the norns shield will be as easy, but I’ll report back when I’ve built one…!

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#147

Yeah, my manual mill could definitely make chips. I’m not a machinist first, but it’s a project I’m seriously looking into these days!
Both Fates and the Norms shield.

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