#122

We know everything!

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#123

11 posts were merged into an existing topic: Norns: ideas

#125

Does anyone know if Crow could be a replacement to a Monome Switch? Would love to be able to switch between norns and ansible in the future without hotswapping!

#126

no, Crow isn’t a USB host and can’t supply power to USB devices. its primary function is adding CV capabilities to USB hosts (norns, laptop, android &c) but can also run its own CV processing scripts.

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#127

Thanks for clarifying that! Wasn’t sure. Is there any other alternatives to do so then? The switch is discontinued right?

#128

Name of my next release

#129

switch is discontinued. i’ve never personally been in the position of needing to switch usb hosts with one device. but AFAIK it is literally a switch on the data lines, easily DIY’d. there are at least one or two threads here talking about it.

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#130

Hope to have more control on my JF with it :eagle: ( no crow emoji ) ^^

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#131

Oh boy!

Examples of crow scripts :heart_eyes::heart_eyes::heart_eyes:

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#132

oh damn so these are actually crow/norns script examples?

#133

Having trouble reading between the lines; can crow talk to an externally powered grid? :thinking:

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#134

These two scripts don’t appear to show that exact ability, but it does feel like what has been presented in the readme and tech specs makes this seem possible.

edit: and I missed the obvious issue of crow not being a USB host.

#135

Doesn’t seem like it since it’s not a host:

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#136

maybe it’s because of the great sequencers available but I wasn’t really thinking about cv --> norns potential (vs norns --> cv) until seeing those simple scripts.

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Crow and Rising Sun
Yashima Gakutei
c. 1840

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#137

Is this a hardware limitation? At least some of the STM32F72xx family support USB-OTG and can (in principle!) act as host or device depending on what they’re connected to. I realize host stuff may not be roadmapped at all for crow development but man have I got sooome use cases cawing to me from across the veil each night as I drift off to sleep.

#138

First I should say I’ve had zero involvement in crow development thus far.

Part is stm32f722. It does support OTG, but the crow circuit Doesn’t supply power. If you supply power I suppose you could theoretically support host mode. This would be a complete firmware rewrite

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#139

thanks. ive not seen / heard about this Crow thing. a search on this forum hasn’t brought up anything obvious either. is there a link or something i can read about it?
thx agsain

#140

It’s all in this thread and on github https://github.com/monome/crow

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#141

Crow was first introduced here: Approaching: norns

The github link has the most info though.

#142

Do we have an idea of crows arrival?