Quick test of the velocity sensitive buttons for the keytar.

I have to hold the 3d printed test rig in place so please forgive the shoddy note triggering. 😅 Overall it feels pretty good; there are 3 different velocity curves to choose from.

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It wooooorks. Well, mostly.

A more clever me would have broken out the 5V line for USB power since it already has a 3.3V voltage regulator -- had to get another regulator for the breadboard to connect to my laptop. Also, finally figured out how to make my own bootloader variant and configure the microcontroller pins.

Everything seems to be working so far. However, 3 of the 40 hall effect sensors are giving me weird values/unresponsive. Perhaps maybe I damaged them during the soldering process?

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The boards for the keytar are finally here. This may be the one I'm most excited about. 576 blinky LEDs that will serve as the main display for the faders, buttons, and XY pad.

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