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+title: "midiMixer - A simple Arduino powered MIDI potentiometer bank"
+date: "2020-05-06"
+author: "William Floyd"
+featured_image: "/images/reduced/midiMixer/v1/20200506_152408.jpg"
+categories: [
+    "Hardware",
+    "PCB",
+    "Electronics"
+]
+tags: [
+    "3D Printing",
+    "SolidWorks",
+    "KiCAD",
+    "Hobby"
+]
+---
+
+This is nothing too special really - I wanted to try my hand at designing a custom PCB and assembling a device from scratch.
+[GitHub for this project.](https://github.com/W-Floyd/midiMixer)
+
+***
+
+This story actually starts a while ago (perhaps 2015), when I got the desire to build a DJ control panel (with no knowledge of how to get into it).
+This never really happened, but it did lead me to get to know some DAW software, and experiment with it off and on.
+But in the back of my head I still wanted to build some hardware to help with this.
+
+***
+
+![Orange Sherbert Dreams](/images/reduced/midiMixer/handwired/20190811_004928.jpg)
+
+This eventually came about in the summer of 2019, when I finally hand-wired a simple 8 knob control surface.
+Truth be told, I actually built two.
+The [first one](/images/reduces/midiMixer/handwired/20190811_005806.jpg) had some issues (I wonder why...?), and would sporadically jitter values.
+The [second one](/images/reduces/midiMixer/handwired/20190812_181606.jpg) worked correctly, having been [wired](/images/reduces/midiMixer/handwired/20190811_195900.jpg) much more [carefully](/images/reduces/midiMixer/handwired/20190811_200447.jpg).
+
+Still, it was lacing professionalism, polish, and most importantly, robustness.
+The sandwich of 22AWG wire, cardstock and PCB was less than sturdy, so I promptly packed it away and never used it.
+Around this time also, I tried very briefly to learn how to use KiCAD, but didn't get far at all.
+This would come to change, however, in April of 2020.
+
+***
+
+![It's Not Easy, Being Green](/images/reduces/midiMixer/v1/20200506_152328.jpg)
+
+Fast forward close to a year, and things have changed - toilet paper is the currency of the quickly collapsing world, and I'm back with my grandparents for the remainder of my semester (which, as of writing, is all but concluded).
+Finding my lack of a social life leaving me with a little bit more free time, and being home yielding a *lot* more distractions, I learned the basics of KiCAD from YouTube, and set out to design a simple PCB.
+My old MIDI controller project came to mind, so I set myself to it, and within a few days had my first Gerber files sent off to JLCPCB.
+In reality, I should have waited a bit and done a couple more design iterations before committing, but I guess $7 is the price of impatience.
+
+![One In Hand](/images/reduces/midiMixer/v1/20200506_151852.jpg)
+
+So it was that my crisp PCBs showed up 3 weeks later - I had one assembled within the hour, and my old code dusted off and flashed within two hours.
+It's really as simple as it gets - a [Pro Micro](/images/reduces/midiMixer/v1/20200506_152023.jpg) hooked up to a [4051 analogue multiplexer](/images/reduces/midiMixer/v1/20200506_152016.jpg), hooked up to 8 potentiometers.
+
+The potentiometers I had on hand ended up being a bit different than the footprints I had used, so I ended up having to clip the mounting tabs off of them.
+This, as one might imagine, made them extraordinarily flimsy, so I designed and printed a couple clamps to [align](/images/reduces/midiMixer/v1/20200506_151947.jpg) and [hold solid](/images/reduces/midiMixer/v1/20200506_152003.jpg) the potentiometers.
+These also have the added benefit of keeping the soldered pins off of whatever surface the mixer is on.
+Should the correct potentiometers be used, these would not be needed, though some feet or a case for the PCB would still be best.
+
+***
+
+This being my first PCB design, I am quite happy it worked out so well - I am studying for Mechanical Engineering, not Electrical...
+However, I see room for improvement.
+The potentiometers are too close together, and the rows are too far apart.
+The knobs barely clear the Arduino, and the Arduino is mounted far higher off the PCB than I would like.
+I see myself making a v2 in due course - perhaps next time I will try JLCPCB's SMT assembly?
+I imagine adding indicator LEDs, improving the layout, and adding a button to switch between banks would make this much more useful.
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