Note that the nunchuk board was started as an Ambika PORT7 peripheral but I have never wrote this part – it’s now MIDI, standalone, and abandoned…

@pichenettes it works! Even with wireless nunchuk!

“remember to put a 10pF to 20pF cap there ; not 100pF” dangit! Hours short of making the change to the Mouser order. Hasty ordering proves once again to be the fail. Trip to Fry’s it is then!

Cool… if you can’t figure out from the code, there are 3 “apps” that can be switched by the button on the board.

• App 1 “Drummer”: Shake for BD, shake + Z for SD. Use the joystick to select other pairs of instruments.
• App 2 “Cyclo Sequencer”: Use joystick to select one of the 8 steps (one at each octant). Hold Z and move joystick to select the note, release Z and the note is assigned to the step. Shake to play the note and move to the next step.
• App 3 “Droner”: Use joystick to transpose current note. Hold Z to freeze this note and use joystick to add another one on top of it and so on. Shake to retrigger a random subset of the notes in the chord.

There are other unimplemented ideas in the notes.txt file…

Oh snap, may have to put mine together..

Ambika used to have a daughterboard with a Nunchuk port, but I discontinued the development. The code and a few boards are still around.

Now any of us can put it in plastic tube with shruthi and speaker…

Gang, I would truly love to be a part of the pioneer’s run, but I just can’t justify the expense right now. Please forgive me. Blame the fucking economy and the rich greedy bankers that torpedoed our futures.

I don’t know what it’s like everywhere else, but here it’s like 2008 all over again… I thought we we beyond this misery already. Guess not. Anyway, count me out until I get a few jobs.

That’s the motion plus not the nunchuk?

:-D

I don’t want to derail this thread but just a quick answer for titus:

Life is very cheap today, if you don’t believe me, let’s take a rendez-vous in 5 years,
you’ll see higher prices for food, petrol, renting costs and so on…
And a day will come when we’ll make PCBs for chineses
and they will be Ebay buyers, not sellers !

I just pray that they don’t find any huge amount of petrole under their ground…this would accelerate process !
The only remaining question is:either india or china will win ?

yes, my vision for the future is full of happyness. :-)
Have a nice day, make babies, and please, don’t derail this thread !

It originally was, so I did not implement an SPI interface for it. Yes Ambika has been in the works since april 2011

NAMM is not the right place for a kit business. People try your product, “I want it”, “Sorry it’s only available as a DIY kit”, “But will you build it for me?” and you see where this is ending… I am not sure I’ll have developed the “non kits” side for this year’s NAMM. Maybe.

I took the last seat I think.

Hello pichenettes, if for some reason a spot is open on the pioneer build please add me to the waiting queue. Cheers !

Congratulations pioneers! I will be living vicariously through you for a few months… please post a lot with lots of build pictures.

Oh yeah, no doubt! I’m just waiting for business to pick up. I am <presently> optimistic. What looked like an entire year of shit, at last inspection appeared to be only 45 days of nothing. I tend to overreact.

Perhaps the end of the Mayan calendar is still a few years away?

@ Titus, HELL YEAH IM KEEPING IT! Been wanting another poly for a bit. I was about to build a 3 voice shruthi poly with an official frankdaniels™ case, then this came along. Cannot wait!

One approach is to cannibalize a keyboard or controller and write your own scanner using an arduino or the likes. This guy did it with a picbasic. An even easier way is to cannibalize a MIDI controller. I’m pretty sure it’ll be cheaper than trying to source a keybed from a proper supplier in low-volume.

In both cases, you’ll need a MIDI merger if you want to keep an external MIDI out. Or at the very least have a local / external MIDI switch.

There is a midibox keyboard project now as well if you REALLY want to get into it: http://www.ucapps.de/midibox_kb.html. LPC17 core, MBHP_DIO module and Fatar DR keybed compatible

For your non-DIY line, you have got to fit the Ambika with a super-fine ultra lush Fatar keybed man. It’s a must have. Beyond that, the sky is the limit but I think it has to start with a keybed as an option, at least.

Any preview date for payment request ?

And one thing more, any chance to see the stepseq edition available through CC or NRPN parameter for the 32 step (note, seq 1, seq 2). I know this means 96 parameters so probably NRPN rather than CC …

One question I also wonder, on preset load, are all the CC and/or NRPN parameters sent out on the MIDI Out ?

Are chips included? I thought it was just PCBs?

You sound like you could do with a break to recharge your batteries. I think we should do so at the same time :)

I’ll take boards, fish and chips. :)

Board & chips for me. (with spicy ketchup)

In my diary.
:)

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