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@ -31,8 +31,8 @@ But in the back of my head I still wanted to build some hardware to help with th
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).
The [first one](/images/reduced/midiMixer/handwired/20190811_005806.jpg) had some issues (I wonder why...?), and would sporadically jitter values.
The [second one](/images/reduced/midiMixer/handwired/20190812_181606.jpg) worked correctly, having been [wired](/images/reduced/midiMixer/handwired/20190811_195900.jpg) much more [carefully](/images/reduced/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.
@ -41,20 +41,20 @@ This would come to change, however, in April of 2020.
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![It's Not Easy, Being Green](/images/reduces/midiMixer/v1/20200506_152328.jpg)
![It's Not Easy, Being Green](/images/reduced/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)
![One In Hand](/images/reduced/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.
It's really as simple as it gets - a [Pro Micro](/images/reduced/midiMixer/v1/20200506_152023.jpg) hooked up to a [4051 analogue multiplexer](/images/reduced/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.
This, as one might imagine, made them extraordinarily flimsy, so I designed and printed a couple clamps to [align](/images/reduced/midiMixer/v1/20200506_151947.jpg) and [hold solid](/images/reduced/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.