David Fowler at uCHobby has introduced his new-and-improved breadboard power supply, which is both an excellent introduction to soldering technique *and* a useful tool for further electronics work.
Indeed it is a nice little board - with additional header pins to bring power out to both sides of the board and add some extra stability. Jumper selectable 3.3/5V operation, plus one feature I don’t see often enough on supplies like this - a power switch. It seems one should consider adding a heatsink to that voltage regulator if you plan on using an input source higher than 25V - SBBPWR2 Revised design for Breadboard power supply module
The Midiator kit converts a Playstation 2 controller for MIDI use
Supports official PS2 controllers, cheap knockoffs and wireless controllers
Analog joysticks control pitch bend and several controllers (or whatever you want them to do)
Buttons either trigger notes or toggle controller signals
LCD and menu system for mode switching (controller vs. note triggering) and remapping the buttons. See the instructions below for more info, but you basically press
start, the button you want to remap, and then up/down arrows to remap.
Partially works with Guitar Hero controller… still working on this
3 LEDs for feedback: power, sign of life, and/or whatever else you want.
Requires DC power supply 7-15 VDC, positive centered barrel plug.
Oddly enough it looks Curiousinventor.com is offering cash to those willing to expand the feature set via modification of the PIC code - Midiator PS2 to MIDI converter
if your as big of a old school video game freak you might have an old arcade marquee. this will show you how to do something besides have it setting around dust!!!
gather the stuff
my "wooden box" was made from nothing but junk and scrap wood. I used a florescent bulb holder, scrap mdf …