#44

The arduinome is a clone of a monome grid. Arduinome runs on a arduino microprocessor board.

“Monome” is actually the name of the company who makes grids and other devices, but many people call the grid device a “monome”

If you have a Monome 64, the forget about Arduinome - this does not apply to you.
(Mods may want to relocate this to another thread)

To get a monome grid working on MacOS, you will need to have SerialOSC installed. Testing for connectivity/functionality can be done with Max and one of the monome patches - Monome Home is a very good patch to see if your grid is connecting properly and to test it’s operating. Don’t worry about Ableton at all until you’ve got this part working.

if you’ve already installed SerialOSC and the grid is not connecting, you’ll want to read this thread: MacOS 10.14 (Mojave) and serialosc

EDIT - and read other threads with the keywords “MacOS and serialosc”

#45

for what it’s worth, my thread doesn’t seem super relevant—typically problems have not actually been the fault of 10.14

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#46

Hi I am putting together a starfire monome project that was collecting dust for ages. Like I am in some sort of time machine here. I was wondering if anyone has the Eagle or .brd file for this so I can diagnose something? I went through the starfire blog and couldn’t find it, although I saw a screenshot of the eagle file on one post.

#48

Hi peeps,

It’s a long shot but while dusting around I found a lost project to make a grid controller based on the livid 64 button grid pcb with the rubber mat and the star gate logic board.

Is this Arduinome software to put in or was it something else.

I have two of these and want to make a 128 grid controller to use with my monome stuff.

All help is welcome.

On the other hand if it is not useful anymore and have to look at other stuff let me know.

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#49

Hi there! I’ve made an arduinome using Arduino Duemilanove and Unsped shield + 8x8 Bibo Board. This are my problems:

I solded the unsped shield and the bibo 8x8 board. I connected the ribbon cable to the pins and the leds light up, but not with the intensity they should. My Leds are orange and I think it’s about 20mA and 2V aproximately, so I soldered a 28K ohm resistor.

Another problem is that the buttons don’t work.

The final problem is that arduinome Serial recongnizes arduinome, but if I want to try it in Monome_test 5, I have to use SerialOsc and SerialOsc.maxpat. How can I use Arduinome Serial and Monome test. Is there any aplication that allows Arduinome Serial connect to max?

PD: I checked the position of the cables and the same, sometimes the Leds do not go (because of the orientation of the cable) but the others don’t iluminate as they should, and the buttons don’t work neither.

Expecting for answer!

#50

Maybe you can ask the guys who put together the arduinome project initially? After a Google, they’ve moved to http://flipmu.com/

#51

Hey,

couple of years ago i build an arduinome. used it mostly with molar vst and 7up. i’ve not followed the monome forum for the last 5 years so i have no clue whats going on today.

i tried to connect my arduionome withe the arduinomeserial to M4l apps like terms without any results.

Do i need to flash my arduinome or use another serial osc?

what are you doing with your arduinomes today?

I just tried my old version of Molar vst with the latest arduinoserial and it’s still works…

would be nice if u guys give me an update

#52

i’d potentially suggest sticking with arduinomeserial and the apps you like, as most of the newer apps are variable-brightness and use serialosc, which does not play well with arduinomeserial unless you’re happy disabling/re-enabling serialosc frequently. see the new setup docs.

#53

so, i’ve gotten my arduinome assembled after 4 long years and a few days of free time, ive been doing lots o troubleshooting today and have gotten most of the bugs figured out, as far as i can tell.

only problem now is some of the buttons, one row in particular, will send random numbers (0-7) in monome_home when i press down the pad. obviously this affects functionality when trying to play apps. this doesnt seem to be a problem when the power up led whoosh happens, nor when running monome_home in random mode, or all 1 mode.

i’ve resoldered almost all the diodes in the row (it seems like one bad one affects the whole row), though not replaced them. could i just have a few bad ones? i dont have any more of this type *bought 4 years ago) so im considering replacing all of them.

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#54

so i’ve got it downto just one row, 3rd (?), in which press any button sends a random x y s message across the board. this must be hardware right? i’ve checked the board for broken traces but i cant seem to find any.

#55

you likely have an issue where the LED pad is exposed enough somehow that a sideways keypress is bridging the key and LED systems together. make sure those LEDs are well seated.

#56

thanks, but i think i figured it out! followed some advice in a long forgotten thread about soldering the ribbon cable wires directly to the button board, it worked!

maybe that means the IDC clamp i was using was bridging two of the wires together.

after 4 years my kit is finally complete!

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#57

Recently I’ve dug out my old arduinome 128, which uses two Starfire 40h boards. I’m trying to get it running with serialosc but I’m having problems. It will work at first - tested in monometest and it does everything it should - but it seems to disconnect within 20-30 seconds (of activity - it doesn’t seem to disconnect if just left alone). Sometimes it’ll reboot itself, other times it needs to be unplugged and reconnected.

At first I thought this was a hardware issue but I’ve tried using arduinomeserial and the disconnections don’t happen. So it seems like an issue with the arduinome + serialosc.

Has anyone had any experience of this and could anyone advise please? Here’s my setup:

Windows 10
Arduinome - 2* starfire boards (named a40h-001 and a40h-002)
serialosc 1.4.1a
Max 8

Any help would be greatly appreciated as I’m at a loss!

#58

Does this also happen with 1.4.2 pre-release version of serialosc?

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#59

omg @artfwo, thank you for your help - I’ve tried installing 1.4.2 as you suggested and it completely eliminates the disconnects. I’m amazed - I’ve spent hours trying to figure this out and you’ve solved it in one sentence!

Out of curiosity - any idea what the problem is with 1.4.1a?

#60

yeah, some issue with incoming data buffering in recent versions of windows. when a certain number of bytes is requested from a serial port, the result isn’t guaranteed to be of requested length, so 1.4.2-pre has a workaround to avoid this, until there’s a proper fix.

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#61

Interesting - thank you for taking the time to explain. It makes a lot of sense because I was reasonably confident I’d not had this issue with an older Windows install.

#62

Hey everyone, today I picked up an incomplete Grid “kit” containing the LED/button PCB, buttons, and some enclosure parts. It’s missing a controller board I think, which I’m fine to approximate using a Teensy, but the wiring seems to be different to the NeoTrellis boards (from what I could see in the thread here), so am wondering if there’s a schematic or Teensy code to go with this version, so I don’t have to do a bunch of experimenting myself :slight_smile:

Alternatively, if there’s a place that sells the controller board I’m missing, that’d be a great help as well. I did try searching for this board but there’s almost nothing printed on the board itself, apart from “2lfi94v-0” in one corner, which I assume doesn’t mean anything.

Any help would be much appreciated!

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#63

Arduinome perhaps?

Prob have a hard time finding reference materials for that.

You may have to reverse engineer a solution.

#64

Yeah I figured as such. It does look pretty similar to the one in this post:

… right down to the enclosure pieces looking the same. I figured it was just missing the logic board and someone may have developed a solution, but yeah maybe I will have to do some experimenting. Looks like I might have to multiplex it myself as well perhaps? I’m still not sure how it’ll work.