#66

I have some time to poke around this morning. I’ll try adding a few ms of delayMicroseconds() to the main loop and report back.

#67

I just tried this with no success (see above).

I commented out the midi port (for bleached) in Arcologies and now it’s working even though bleached is connected. So it should be something with either Arcologies or my bleached. I have used bleached with Less Concepts and it was working great although I had some issues connecting it once. Seems to be working good now though.

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#68

so i tried moving all the action out of the main loop and putting it on an IntervalTimer (15ms). seems to be working for me, though i’m not sure this is the type of timer @zebra was talking about.

anyway, here’s a gist if you want to try it out.

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#69

Great. I’ll try it out later today. Did you get the same freeze as I described when pressing play/pause in Arcologies?

#70

nope, arcologies seemed to be working fine.

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#71

no did not work, getting the same freeze behaviour. i think i need to try resoldering, just hope it’s not the smd that i can’t reach without unsoldering the teensy…

edit: tested bleached on my mac with “midi monitor” and it does not report any strange behaviour. if there was a bad solder it would behave strangely on my mac aswell (i’m guessing). i’ll have to let this rest and report back if i come up with something. thx for trying to help me out @Justmat & @zebra!

edit#2: I found a solution that is probably good to implement in the ‘official’ code for bleached. In the main loop I added

  while (usbMIDI.read()) {
    // read & ignore incoming messages
  }

This filters out incoming midi preventing the freezing loop that happened to me.

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#72

LOVE THESE, packed one in my Norns case on vacation and had a blast

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#73

love it! did you plan to share .dxf?

#74

Will share for sure! I have a v2 i am working on with some changes.

Idea is to have no mounting screws on top (with the pots mounted to a floating panel) and have an LED light tunnel (same as on teletype)

Pro tip on Ponoko aluminum panels, they are cheap and fast but they arrive more or less raw. Some filing helps smooth things out but they are dirt and fingerprint magnets without a top coat of something like polyurethane.

I haven’t ordered from Front Panel Express but what I have seen they seem to make a more finished panel.

I am tempted to put some elbow grease into finishing these further at home but I don’t want to eat aluminum swarf in my cereal for a month :clown_face:

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#75

Oooooh. Good to know. The edges are raw or the surfaces? I thought they offered an anodized surface sp was curious how it would work out.

(Pix look like raw, not-anodized surface)

#76

I can thoroughly recommend the ResponsiveAnalogRead library, which can handle the polling / checking if changed / hysteresis for you in a neat tiny bundle. There’s some examples of it in use inside 16n, although the examples in the library are just fine. It’ll work neatly with Teensy, as well.

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#77

Surface is not too bad but definitely rough
Edges are sharp and have a bunch of burrs and some weird cut marks. A file cleans it up fine but I am curious how the stainless steel would turn out from them.

Might just go full Waterworld and order carbon steel for the next project. Embrace the rust.

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#78

wow those look great!

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#79

Thanks for the kind words yall :cowboy_hat_face:
Hit it with the sandpaper / steel wool (which erased my hip engraved line, OOPS)
Lowered the profile with countersunk screws on bottom panel / nylon nuts under PCB instead of standoff
Experimenting with Plasti-dip spray on bottom panel to replace rubber feet. We’ll see how it holds up.

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#81

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Finally got my panels thanks to a friendly little brother who works at a cool company doing gadgets. Now I need to hunt down some screws. BOM only got me 1 which is definitely 7 to few :smiley: That’s what I get for not paying attention.

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