Hot Bike Ride

Today I took a long, hot (112º F) bike ride to Michael's to get some sticker letters to label my lsdj-mc2, which is on e-bay right now.

I painted my LSDJ cart grey yesterday, but after I took the casing off the SRAM was cleared, thank goodness I had a backup, but ever since it's been pretty finicky, working then it will glitch up. I'm afraid to compose on it because I dont know if it will save or not. I wrote a really tight melody last night but lost it :(

Got another gret DMG in the mail today, also bought a couple broken ones (black and green), maybe I can fix them.

I bought a weller soldering iron on ebay today, the price was $.99 + 15 bucks shipping lol, yeahhh rigght :-P... must be hand delivered or something, pony express, but they usually go for $35 retail online, so I can't complain.

I've also been practicing throat/overtone singing. I might post a video on youtube, I'll link it tomorrow if I decide.

Speaking of youtube, I was watching this:


I really like the last thing and the vibrating dead bird. I thought it was so great when she said "If they were alive... I know that can't happen but..." haha! Great stuff.

LSDJ-MC2 w/LEDs

So I guess I need to make some labels for what the buttons/LEDs mean, but other than that, it's done!

I have 1 question about it performance which I asked on the LSDJ-MC2 mailing list, I'll see what they have to say, its just about the MIDI clock stop signal.

I need to get a new soldering iron, my radioshack POS is getting a little annoying, I'm thinking weller.

Anyway might post some more updates later, peace!

Wiring LSDJ-MC2

Today I drilled a few more holes in the box, soldered the circuit board to all the switches and connectors (minus the green LEDs, waiting for them in the mail... I'm going to have 36 green LEDs lol)

I think the next one I'm going to make will use a header for all the button/LED/connector connections and just use a wire wrapping tool to connect everything up that way.

I need to look into the "pro-sound" mod for gameboys.

Painted and Drilled

So I painted and drilled a few holes for the LSDJ-MC2 today, installed the MIDI jack and the switches. I ordered a few green LEDs for the indicator lights (I was using the red ones I had laying around) I might get a panel mount power jack and/or a 9v battery clip for power, I also want to add a toggle switch for power.
I also did some vector art of a dodecahedron, I haven't tried cutting it out... probably do that now. I want to do the other 4 platonic solids as well, tetrahedron, cube, octahedron and icosahedron. COOL!

Another day

I made and uploaded 3 videos to youtube today. 2 about LSDJ-MC2, demonstrating the sync and keyboard mode. The other was about a card I received today from Michael in California... I know 2 Michael's in Cali, both are Asian but this one is younger, that video was a little over 9 minutes long.

LSDJ-MC2 Vids!:


And Full Midi mode:


The V-LOG about the card:


I think that's it for this post.

LSDJ-Midi Converter

Did you know that I automatically spell converter converTOR, just sounds cooler, but it's wrong. Well, these are some catch up posts, after the microwave transformer welder died, I went inside and started soldering up a LSDJ to MIDI converter. I ordered half the parts from mouser, then realized I ordered the wrong 7414 IC and so I ordered the right IC and the resistors and MIDI female from digikey.

I got it all together in an afternoon, but I couldn't figure out why it wasn't working, so I tried again the next day, all day until 8 at night, my link cable between the gameboy and the circuit was farts (or I had the female connector soldered up wrong, which I doubt)! I took half a link cable from a DMG-07 and soldered the corresponding pins directly to the points on the circuit and it worked! yay!

I got both sync and keyboard mode working, I should make a video, but for now have this crappy picture!You can see the link cable plugged into the LSDJ-MC2 and gameboy, this picture was during troubleshooting.

Game of Go

Game of Go,
originally uploaded by uberscientist.

The game of go draws many parallels with life, it rewards walking the fine line, a balance in everything. Many many pro games are won by just a point or 2, even half a point for making the 2nd move.

Yep, I created another picture with context free!

I also took a break from checking forums, posting, youtube and playing with context free to make a song in LSDJ. This is my first "full" LSDJ song, yay! I also watched the tail end of an anime called black cat or something, it had to do with nanobots and mutants and sweepers or something.

I also made a huge version of the go game and made a "song" and put it to the animation exported from context free:



I've been trying to think of a way to make a SOIC to 8-pin DIP adapter (ZIF type) But the leads are so close to eachother, I cant think of much , maybe some melty plastic that hardens with some really fine wires? I might be able to think of something... if they idea gods are appeased.

Also if you want the grammar file for the go, I've now uploaded to the CFA gallery, so check out my stuff here: nak's CFA gallery!