Reinventing the Wheel (watcher)

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Its not very often that you get to go back to old designs and make improvements. Recently I got to rework a design from last year and build on the collective knowlege of 2 design teams and 3 design cycles. Does practice make perfect? We shall see. The first run. Last year I got to… Read more »

Using the dorkboard with other peoples programmers.

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When I developed the dorkboard I was working in conjunction with brian riley and paul badger. The dorkboard was an attempt to take the things I liked about the original really bare bones arduinofreeduino and refine them. Although I intended my design to be used with my programmer I tried to make it compatible with brian rileys programmers and the programming header pins are ordered according to the standard that paul and brian were working on. I will try to clarify some of this and show you how to use the dorkboard with other programmers.

burning a bootloader with the avr-dragon

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I generally dont use my dragon. Its notoriously fragile and complicated compared to my trusty avrisp-mk2. However somewhere between loaning it out and taking it to dorkbot meetings my mark2 has gone awol for several months now.
bootloader programming setup.
And since I am stuck using the dragon I might as well share a little.

Avrdude.

fiddle~ test

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This is my first real pd patch.

The noise gate was stolen from the samples. I would like to stuff more of the cruft in the right hand corner into the noisegate chunk so it will look nice.

In the one chanel It makes my bass sound like a cheap toy keyboard. In the other I can hear how closely it is tracking.