Hello All.

I'm planning to make a midi-controlled and solenoid-driven little robotic drummer (just 2 sticks to begin with) over the coming weeks, using Tom Scarff's Miduino 'Midi to 16 outputs' board, so as to demo the concept in CeC 2010 (http://www.theaea.org/cec_cac/cec10/index.htm).

Now, I do suspect that I 'may' be able to make a basic PD patch to run this, even though I'm an pin-headed permanent newbie with this stuff.

However, being a pretty regular visitor here, I am pretty sure that there's probably a ready patch somewhere in here that would serve for this,... with perhaps just a wee bit of tweaking.

Any ideas, advice, leads?

Keep well ~ Shankar

The Miduino board: http://tomscarff.110mb.com/midi_16_out/midi_to_16_outputs.htm

hey shankar, i can help you set this up if you want. will send u a mail now.

Ah Matt!

The only thing better I could ask for than that is to have you back with us too~:o)

Have replied to your email.

Keep well ~ Sssssssssss

check out reduzant's solenoid concert:

he hangs out on the IRC chan (#dataflow on freenode) and i'm sure he'd be willing to hook you up. his nick is rdz on there.

What kind of solenoids are you using? I've been looking for push-type spring returns for EVER.

Slvmchn ~ yes, I saw the solenoid concert last year, and I also saw Ajay Kapur's MahaDeviBot first-hand in 2008. That's why the one I'm making is just a sort of "demo",... for a village setting in the Lower Himalaya.

Nestor ~ I'm presently in New Delhi, India, where I went through quite a bit of networking to finally find the solenoids. The trick was to click into the local network of students of electronics engineering, who're into robotic projects. In any case, the shop I ended up at has only the pull type, not push.

Keep well ~ Shankar

Just bought the Miduino 'Midi to 16 outputs' board and put it all together, the first two digital outs are constantly on and the others are unresponsive - midi seems to be coming in okay... any ideas where to start debugging?