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Paint Test
So whilst waiting for various parts to come in the post, and hopefully the right guitar neck at some point I decided to do a paint test....
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Audio Card
The audio card arrived and has taken me three days for to talk to my RPi. Some dedication! Turns out the card is advertised to be...
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![Drum Sampler](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/6a2c8e_e9e746a6ceec476f977f849dc3a850f0~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_319,h_240,fp_0.50_0.50,q_90,enc_auto/6a2c8e_e9e746a6ceec476f977f849dc3a850f0~mv2.webp)
Drum Sampler
So I discovered a program similar to MaxMSP called Puredata, that can be used with a RPi. Whilst reading at uni, MaxMSP was used...
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Shaping the body
As the wood came I was able to start shaping the body. The methods used in these pictures are not conventional and if I had my way I...
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Delivery!
So the majority of the items arrived today! By arrived I mean I had to travel on a bus after customs decided to sting me for a lot of...
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Metronome
So since the start I have teaching myself Python to eventually make the software entirely by myself. I have gone through the book shown...
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![First 'almost to scale' drawing](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/6a2c8e_fc2646c7788e470493ea7be6c58f57cd~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_319,h_240,fp_0.50_0.50,q_90,enc_auto/6a2c8e_fc2646c7788e470493ea7be6c58f57cd~mv2.webp)
First 'almost to scale' drawing
As you can see the shape is similar to the 'Proto', however with no knobs, buttons or anything aside from the essentials, and the...
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Touchscreen
So the ordered parts are starting to get delivered, and as I'm starting to get a little impatient started work on getting the touchscreen...