Work, besides work
Like most guitar geeks I too am cursed with an incurable disease named GAS. For those who may have never heard of it before: it’s an acronym which stands for Gear Aquisition Syndrome, or the irresistible urge to try and buy new guitar gear. All this in the holy search for the ultimate sound. Continue reading “Project Effects Loop Switcher: Introduction to the project”
Great! So we’ve got everything sorted out about how our loop switcher should behave.
However, before we start writing code, we need some sort of a prototype to test it on. In this chapter I will show you how to build such a prototype (the one you can see in the video of my previous post PART 5: Defining features). Continue reading “Project Effects Loop Switcher
PART 6: Building a prototype”
Ok, now that we’re introduced to the Arduino workflow (see Project Effects Loop Switcher
PART 4: ‘Hello Arduino’…) it’s time to start thinking of how exactly we want our loop switcher to behave. Continue reading “Project Effects Loop Switcher
PART 5: Defining features”
For me the first steps into Arduino World went like a breeze. Easy peasy! So it was time to move on to some more ‘advanced’ stuff. How about a good old ‘Hello World’? Continue reading “Project Effects Loop Switcher
PART 4: ‘Hello Arduino’…”
This morning my Arduino Mega 2560 arrived. After some weeks of research it was time to get my hands dirty. Working with Arduino is as simple as boiling an egg. You go to the getting started pages on the Arduino website, choose your operating system, download and install the development tool and follow the steps described. Continue reading “Project Effects Loop Switcher
PART 3: Getting to know Arduino”
I must be a terrible person: last couple of weeks I’ve seen the most impressive effects switcher units, however, none of them could perfectly suit my needs. Things like loop switchers aren’t cheap (at least not the decent ones), so the one I’ll be buying has to be exactly what I need. At least it has to compensate for the guilty feeling that emerges from giving in to the GAS… again. Continue reading “Project Effects Loop Switcher
PART 2: How hard can it be?”
Like most guitar geeks I too am cursed with an incurable disease named GAS. For those who may have never heard of it before: it’s an acronym which stands for Gear Aquisition Syndrome, or the irresistible urge to try and buy new guitar gear. All this in the holy search for the ultimate sound. Continue reading “Project Effects Loop Switcher
PART 1: Why build one myself?”