John Honniball

@anachrocomputer
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Software Engineer and electronic tinkerer posting random musings about the Arduino, Dorkbot, plotters, oscilloscopes and Linux
Homepagehttps://anachrocomputer.github.io/
Linkshttps://linktr.ee/anachrocomputer
Today's book parcel: Engineering A Compiler, by Cooper & Torczon. Quite a weighty hardback tome #FoundInOxfam
@MLE_online OK. At least here in the UK, the charity shops accept donations directly. I go to the Oxfam shop opposite the University of Bristol, drop off a bag of books, go upstairs to the computer science section, and sometimes see the books I donated the month before. Then I face the challenge of leaving with fewer books than I arrived with...
@aminorjourney Solder paste for a reflow oven or hotplate, solder wire for an iron. Fine tip, fine solder, good lighting, flux, magnification!
Who needs a keyboard
@MLE_online Can you take it with you on your next trip to the thrift store and donate it? Do thrift stores in the US work that way?
With the plastic case removed and the filler out of the way, we can now see what it looks like under the hood.
Coin cell and oscillator top mounted:

I am making a thing. A “polyphonic” (three note) MIDI to CV adapter. Its super old school strip board construction. The image is of the display/control board and the microcontroller MIDI board. The CV, gate and trigger board is under construction.

I am using an AT Mega 328P as the microcontroller. Three MCP22008s for the 7 segment displays and to drive the gate and trigger transistors. And a bunch of MCP4822 dual DACs feeding in to TL07x OpAmps for the CV outputs.

For pitch and pitch bend I am using two channels via differential amplifiers to provide a -4V to 4V, volt per octave range. Everything else is 0-4V.

The UI allows you to set OMNI mode or midi channel, octave adjust and polyphony on or off. It uses a first available scheme (like the Jupiter 6).

It has MIDI in (naturally), Thru and Out. Out is like Thru but is just the common or unhandled messages. This means you can cascade (out in to in on a second converter) to support more than three notes.

Ahoy!

We will be operating ADSL, VDSL and GPON services at EMF in a limited trial area in Camping C2.

You can even wholesale your own service over the top!

Docs on getting connected are here - https://docs.cutel.net/events/emf26/internet_services/

#emfcamp #emfcamp2026

@joost_rekveld This reminds me of the Tektronix 7000-series readout system: https://w140.com/tekwiki/wiki/7000_series_readout_system
7000 series readout system - TekWiki

@philpem Bill and Ben the Flowerpot Men in that last photo