(I also posted this on Cemetech. Been a while since I've been on here or Cemetech...)

Anyways, my most recent project...basically, I'm making a MIDI controller that has giant controls so it can be played while wearing fursuit paws. I'm getting paws made, and I don't want to have to take off my paws just to use my synths, so this is my totally reasonable and not-at-all ridiculous solution

The hardware is nothing special, just an Arduino using this MIDI library. There are 8 buttons which are used for playing one octave of notes in a specific key and scale, and 4 pots which are used for changing parameters on the connected synth via MIDI CC. At this point I have the programming and electronics pretty much finished; I'm just waiting for the buttons I ordered to show up so I can get it off of the breadboard.

The 8 keys for playing notes are 60mm arcade buttons, the 3 buttons for navigating menus are 45mm, and the knobs are 4" in diameter and 3" high and are being 3D printed by a friend of mine. The front panel is 35" by 10". Here's a quick crappy mockup I made of the front panel:

I randomly decided to come visit here again, so here I am The way sub forums are organized has changed 

I'll try to stick around this time. Anything crazy happen in the past few months while I was gone?

Quote from: Spyro543 on August 15, 2015, 10:32:24 pm

Quote from: pimathbrainiac on August 15, 2015, 06:03:03 pm

Are you more based in the German or Italian school? Also sword alone or do you use an offhand?

Also I'm more of an Italian school person (Sword and offhand dagger, specifically).

I'm definitely based more in the German school, and I just use my sword alone.

When you say sword and dagger, what kind of sword? I don't know how a longsword or greatsword like mine could be used with something else.

Technically a rapier. I use the dagger main gauche, so it is more defensive than anything else.

OK, that's what I thought.

EDIT:

Oh dear lord. You want a non-sharpened sword for the former, and a sharpened sword for the latter. For the love of safety, do not do both of those things with the same blade </3

If I wasn't such an idiot and actually thought about what sword I should get, right now I would have a Hanwei Tinker longsword and an extra blade that would be dull.

Someone else who is more knowledgeable about this topic really should've started this thread (like you or pimath). At this point, I'm pretty much a complete noob when it comes to swords. I wouldn't have made this thread if it wasn't for that other one in Private Matters.

As for swords, I don't personally own one myself, but I take lessons on medieval swordfighting. I think german school, mostly, but we're kinda all over the place. >.>

I would love to actually be able to learn this stuff from a person, but there aren't any HEMA clubs or anything similar within 2 hours of where I live. 

What do you do with your swords?

For display, training, or something else entirely?

Training, I guess...? I just started trying to learn how to do Figueiredo's montante rules and some basic German and Italian longsword stuff, and I use my sword to practice that stuff. It sounds, looks, and feels weird and stupid (and it kinda is) but I still find it interesting for some reason. (Edit: I'm not trying to say the whole hobby is stupid. It's just something I find really embarrassing for some reason)

Also, I might end up using it to cut various plastic jugs and melons. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Are you able to kick it up to your self? if you are going to try I recommend you try it with the sheath on

If you're talking about what's done in Figueiredo's montante rules, that's not something I tried much, because I'm not a big fan of kicking my sword. (And I don't even have a sheath. That's not really a thing that you use with a claymore (also getting one made for my sword would probably cost more than the sword did).)

That sounds awesome! Are you going to release the source/schematics later?

I will when it's finished.

how do you recognize repeating cycles?

The TinyTuring itself can't recognize repeating behavior. I just looked up the busy beaver on Wikipedia

EDIT: I forgot to respond to you, SpiroH.

A Nice Tiny Turing Toy (NT3) you've got there. 

Thanks I might have to use that name instead.

Suggestion: You still have plenty of space on the breadboard, why don't you plug in some leds to complement the matrix display of zeros and ones.
Instead of using the karat to represent the head, you could just as well make that led blink.

That does sound kind of neat. I might consider doing that sometime.

New features!
More states - I realized I have a lot more memory to work with than I thought, so there can now be up to 20 states in a program.

Programs can now be stored on the EEPROM - The Arduino has a 1KB EEPROM in it, so why not store programs to it? Up to 4 programs can be stored on the EEPROM at once.

New menu items for saving and loading programs on the EEPROM:


The interface for selecting program slots:

When doing anything with the EEPROM, the program asks if you are sure you want to do stuff, and gives a confirmation message when finished:

What language is this done in?

It's programmed in Extended Color BASIC.