Received a 40h kit, bought from a person on the monome forums who had assembled it already. The design of the monome website, although attractive at first, reveals itself to be a usability nightmare now that I am using it heavily to look for information.
One of the diodes wasn't connected to the PCB on one end, the symptom was the key press wasn't registering and upon inspection the diode was working and the right way around. Adding a little bit of solder to connect the end fixed it.
LEDs were too bright, reduced the brightness to 10% using /osc/howto from http://wiki.monome.org/view/AppMaxMspBasePatches
Measuring the PCBs for a custom enclosure+faceplate. The schematics:
* http://wiki.monome.org/Attachment/monome40h_plate.pdf
* http://monome.org/here/monome40h_grid_layout.png
* http://monome.org/here/monome40h_thrulogic_layout.png
seem to be slightly different from my measurements. Asking for feedback on the official monome faceplate's depth and personal preferences at http://post.monome.org/comments.php?DiscussionID=5522 Will prototype with cardboard before getting one made with real materials. Creating a sketchup model with measurements.
Considering different styles of enclosures, but planning to use a laser cutting service, so the enclosure is limited to a form made from interconnected flat pieces.
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