#3138

Curious about one thing. I was under the impression that one should place the TT next to the JF in order to connect them using the i2c cable or whatever it’s called. As I am planning to get a TT when they are available again, or sometime in 2019 at any rate, I’d like to know how close they need to be to talk to each other.

And while I’m on the subject, I’ve got an Ansible coming. Can that talk with JF and if so, does it need to be next to it as well?

The whole Monome/Mannequins inter-connectivity thing is a bit oblique to a newb, I’m afraid…

Thanks!

#3139

my Teletype, Ansible, W/'s and Just Friends are all connected to each other via a 6-pin daisy-chaining ribbon cable I made. Based on the length of cable I used and the placement of connectors along it, Just Friends is about as far away as possible.

Apparently it’s advisable that I2C cables not be too long, but so far no problems, and in any case, it’s not like it’s stretching to the opposite corner of some 9U case, just the other end of my skiff.

(the W/'s are actually both connected to a slashes board @xenus_dad kindly made for me and THEN to power and I2C, hence them having to be next to each other, but so far the slashes board just saves me having to use more connectors.)

ETA – as to your Ansible question, the answer is, Ansible can’t access Just Friends’s I2C features on its own yet. I believe @scanner_darkly is working on a rewrite of the Ansible firmware that would allow this for at least some apps, but my understanding is that’s very much still in progress

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#3140

Wondering if you would share where you found a longer i2c cable. I’m planning a case rearrange and the plan right now is to have the 2 i2c ports ~75hp away from each other. Has there been any stability issues you’ve noticed?

#3141

They are easy to DIY :slight_smile:

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#3142

Ah just completely read over that first paragraph there! Is there any info of what tools and materials you need to do that?

#3143

yes we have some info here: DIY i2c cables

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#3144

Ah nice, I had commented on that a while back even, heh. Thanks!

#3145

that thread is exactly what I followed to make mine. bought some cute little rainbow ribbon cable, some snap-on connectors and voila! surprisingly easy to put together. Thankfully Monome and Mannequins have their I2C pinout the same up to rotating the connector!

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#3146

dope sticker choice!

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#3147

temporary measures

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#3148

Looks like a great environment to create in. I want to be there now-

#3149

Bought guitar hooks a couple weeks ago, just in time to go out of town for work. Got home yesterday, and this morning…hung guitars! I’m irrationally terrified that the anchors will fail (they won’t, but I’m still nervous)

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Super happy with the look, NOW I have NO excuse not to make amazing music… :stuck_out_tongue:

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#3150

55

uuuum, what is this?
edit: found it, a Stream Deck, right? how is it?

#3151

I am starting to develop a cassette problem

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#3152

Setup for tonight in Richmond, VA. Triggering my Mangrove with a contact mic on a random sequence. Very fun times.

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#3153

I had two pull out. Both were supporting heavier electrics, and thankfully a desk below took the brunt of the bounce each time.

Anchors should go in studs, not in drywall alone.

(which has all the ‘well that is obvious’ in the world about it, and that’s what I thought as I checked the guitars for damaged, both times… which begs the question how I let it happen twice… sigh).

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#3154

I use these instead:

Looks better, can mount guitars on an angle, and distributes the weight across two anchor points.

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#3155

Yeah! I like 'em - I have two from work. One stays on my desk, the other travels with me to theaters when I’m in production. They’re geared heavily towards gamers, so there’s a lot of native support for Twitch, YouTube, Twitter, etc, but the general system actions are mostly just keystrokes. A Stream Deck plus Keyboard Maestro starts getting into some interested territory, though… They detect what application you’re currently working in, so you can set up custom buttons per application, which is handy. So I have a general default layout, then layouts for Logic, for QLab (theater sound playback software), for Excel, etc.

They’re serialized, so when you plug one in, the Stream Deck software knows which one’s which and can load a custom profile (button layout) for it…which is great if you are using more than one at a time, but when you want to have one at work and one at home that look and act the same…less useful.

#3156

Oh those are cooool. I might have to keep those in mind. These hangers seem pretty sturdy, plus they have two anchors per hanger, so fingers crossed. My fear is mostly that I’ve hung them so high up because of the synth and the standing desk, so they have a long way to fall if they ever do fall.

#3157

How is it going up on the hill? Glad to know there are more modularists at Cornell!