Mine looks something like this: http://post.monome.org/comments.php?DiscussionID=14847 Keep looking for a chance to do some more problem solving on it, but haven't quite found one yet. (I have a brightness/colour consistency issue too, w…

Cheers for that Owen, replied on the [[http://post.monome.org/comments.php?DiscussionID=14602|other thread]] to keep all the troubleshooting stuff in one place. Here's couple of pics of the case. More to come when I get round to it, and wil…

From Owen on [[http://post.monome.org/comments.php?DiscussionID=14847|this thread]] - just thought I'd keep all the "dimming issue" content in one thread. > Nice project! After seeing the pictures, I might suggest one possible a…

Description and pics now up in [[http://post.monome.org/comments.php?DiscussionID=14847|this thread]]. J

Lastly, and excitingly, I shall leave you with a tantalising glimpse of the case which has arrived this week. More shots of the fully-assembled beast will arrive in due course! {{http://www.pixelbrain.me.uk/jonome/jonome_case_teaser.jpg?600}}

Hi Owen, cheers for the reply. 1) __Decoupling__ - The questions about the caps come from a few threads over on the Arduino forums where some people had discovered that the 0.1uF decoupling caps on the tlc5940s were insufficient, and had got much…

I've always used [[http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/14246/xact|xACT]] without any problems, so might be worth a try.

A little progress update (or possibly lack-of-progress update): - Beefed up the +V and GND connections. Made no difference that I can tell. From the info I've been able to find, a single stripboard track should easily carry enough curren…

I'm now revisiting the project after a busy few weeks of new things (house/city/job/baby!). To describe the problem (hopefully) a little better... //My setup consists of:// - Arduino Mega 2560 R2. - Custom Chronome stripboard shield, …

To which owen_Vallis kindly responded thus: > Ahh, I see now. I didn't realize you were using modified sparkfun button boards. Your USB port can supply ~500ma, which should be good of rthe 64 RGB leds, but I did end up using a large Elect…

Good effort Tim, nice looking case too. I'm in the middle of designing one in perspex, but has been put back slightly by such trivia as new house/city/job/baby in quick succession! Looking forward to getting into the software side of things…

I'd say go for max brightness - you can always adjust down in software later, but if you get ones which are too dim it might be a constant annoyance after that. Also, I'd choose the white colour over yellow, but that's obviously just…

I put a couple of diagrams for the breadboard on [[http://post.monome.org/comments.php?DiscussionID=14083|this thread]] - I'll try and put up a better one with all the IC-to-Arduino connections marked out as soon as I can. (Unfortunately a new…

Thanks for that Owen, I'll look into the software stuff when I get a chance. Regarding point 2) - sorry, I didn't explain that clearly enough - I don't think it's a dot correction issue. The LEDs get dimmer and less unifor…

Hello Chronomers, I've just about got my Chronome up and running (adapted from my Arduinome using a custom stripboard shield and some judicious vandalism of the Sparkfun buttonpad led-gnd traces). At the moment it's working perfectly a…

The basic layout I used is in the attached diagrams, adapted/corrected a little from [[http://www.flickr.com/photos/jiparis/3112281038|this one]]. Then all you need to do is run jumpers from necessary pins on the ICs to the relevant Arduino pins. …

It's also pretty easy to make a shield using stripboard - happy to post a diagram or two of what I did if people are interested... It's obviously not quite as neat and convenient as the unsped shield, but I found the process of putting …

Done. Just getting into the whole monome thing, but enjoying the open-sourceness of it.

So, on to the troubleshooting. First thing: Did you set the pins in the test code correctly? You'll need to make sure that they are set right for the hardware setup you have - there are 8 pins to check in the pin assignments section of the…

Hi alx, I'll try and explain what you should be seeing (though to be honest I had to go back and figure it out for myself! - it was very much a sloppily shoved together piece of code which I lost interest in as soon as it had served its purp…

I've been having fun with [[http://docs.monome.org/doku.php?id=app:soyuz|soyuz]], which is very accessible and has quite a few of the features you've asked about. I think you'll need to run it with MonomeSerial as I don't think …

Hi Jordan (& Owen), dgrizzle seems to have found the solution to both his and my problems. In the 3.3 update the "Serial.print"s need to be changed to Serial.write"s (as well as taking out the "BYTE"s) then it's…

YES!! Well done sir. 3.3 is fine too, it's just that the "Serial.print"s need to be changed to "Serial.write"s. My monome_test is now working perfectly - looking forward to trying out some proper apps. Thanks everyon…

Hi space_moose, Yeah, it seems like there's a few people seeing similar symptoms. In that case, I wonder if it's worth trying with older versions of the software to see if we find any better results? I'm willing to give it a shot…

@dgrizzle - have you managed any progress with this issue? I'm now at a very similar point, and pretty sure it's a software communication problem.

@axlhastings - did you get anywhere with solving this? I'm having a similar issue, though I'm fairly sure mine is a software problem: http://post.monome.org/comments.php?DiscussionID=13863&page=1#Item_22

Hi all, I have some progress to report! - big thanks to visinin for his helpful suggestions. visinin spotted that my device was showing up as "tty.usbmodem", not "tty.usbserial", requiring patches to serialosc and libmonome so…

@marto Useful to know, thanks. @visinin Yes, I think you're probably right. Terminal responds with: ls: /dev/tty.usbserial*: No such file or directory I read a few other threads about making sure the flashed serial no. was right…

I'm experiencing very similar problems (see http://post.monome.org/comments.php?DiscussionID=13863&page=1#Item_11 ) - except that mine doesn't show up as connected in Monome Test. Using the serial-test recommended by thealphanerd ab…

Yes, it's definitely a software problem. Here's the screenshots - pretty much the same as yours except unconnected. The 2nd one is what happens after I've clicked "M" and entered the 3rd port number - still unconnected, …