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ArduinoBoy!

January 15th, 2009

Finally got an ArduinoBoy built, and to celebrate, heres a video of it in action:

From the youtube vid description:

LSDJ is running in “master” mode, and is sending clock data out which the Arduino then sends over usb. This is then picked up by a little processing app which I wrote which acts as an interface between midi and usb using the RWMidi lib (which I had to hack a little).

The song is just something I wrote quickly. Three channels running in LSDJ (PU2, wav, and noise), then some drums and QuadraSID from Ableton Live.

Sorry the sound quality sucks :(

So there we have it! Maybe I’ll put something up showing how I made this if anyone is interested – the nicest thing about it is that it required no soldering whatsoever! The only piece of equipment I used to make this was a pair of small scissors to cut the link cable and strip the wires. Not that I’d recommend using scissors to strip wire, but I was impatient and it worked ;)

Anyway, feel free to leave any comments or questions, and cheers to Trash80 for all the help!

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  1. January 25th, 2009 at 12:03 | #1

    hey combatdave, you answered my thread at 8bc, thanks!
    this video and the arduinoboy you built are great! I still can’t figure out how you did to build it with no soldering! But I wish you could send me the schematics for it… could you please?? my personal email is andrepagnossim@gmail.com

    I apreciate any help !

    and by the way, I added you on myspace ok?

    thanks a lot for your time man!

  2. rey
    January 31st, 2009 at 17:35 | #2

    could you make a list of parts that you would need to replicate what you did? maybe sell me a kit lol. no not really but a list would be great.

  3. combatdave
    January 31st, 2009 at 22:19 | #3

    @andre (pulselooper)
    andre, the schematics are in another post i put up recently!

    @rey
    rey, there are no parts needed to build this aside from a gameboy link cable and an arduino. this is a modified version of an arduinoboy, for the full info just google “arduinoboy” – i’ll probably be putting information of how i build my full arduinoboy up soon.

  4. turboninja
    June 23rd, 2009 at 05:14 | #4

    I made an arduinoboy too but it doesn t work as midi master, did you make something not in the plan? do you know if it s possible to sends notes from lsdj? (not only clock )

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