Just curious if anyone has successfully managed to slap an MI Beads or Rings behind a Kosmo panel. I’d love to see examples.
I did!
It is a DIY kit called nanoRings. It was just the board with the SMD components and the pots, jacks, and LED’s provided separately. Perfect for adaptation to Kosmo format. It’s one of my favorite modules in spite of being mildly borked right now. The attenuverters are not wired correctly so the CV jacks effect the wrong pots.
If I had to do it over again, I would have stuck with the smaller LED’s that were provided. I replaced them with similar 5mm ones but the brightness levels are off, so the orange/yellow mode is difficult to discern.
I also have a similar kit for nanoTides but have not gotten around to wiring it up or making the panel for it yet. I wish I knew onshape better so I could get a couple of milled aluminum panels made.
One mod I would like for this module is to have bi-colored LED’s behind the attenuverter pots for the CV’s controls. nanoTides has this functionality built into it - when you send it CV the LED’s shine through the clear shafted pots. I think it looks really cool and it saves valuable space on the panel. It is accomplished on tides with surface mount LED’s on the board positioned behind the pots. I’ll have to do some fancy soldering to break them out for my version and I’m a little worried I might mess something up in the process. The rings board on the other hand does not have that functionality at all. I will likely have to build some sort of parasitic buffer board or something.
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Oh I am all over this. Thank you!
Looks like they’re pretty universally out of stock with the SMD pre-soldered unless there’s a vendor I’m unaware of.
Also, from what I’m reading they Beads firmware still hasn’t been released? I wonder if there’s something similar that would serve my granular needs.
clouds is the obvious choice, one of my customers builds 4u versions with his own panels:
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FYI there is an Arduino port targeting the RP2350 (overclocked to 275hz for rings)
I don’t think they are using the CMSIS-DSP instructions on the RP2350 so there’s probably a large room for improvement
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I would be remis if I didn’t mention the wonderful work that TOIL has been doing with mutable instruments designs.
Ripe for Kosmo adaptation.
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