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[Reply #15 on:]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!! 

This sucks! The only open design I've "seen" in the last decade or so using memory buses and no one's interested? Life's not fair. LOL

[Reply #16 on:]

Schematics finalized and PCB 30% complete (version 2 that is, version 1 was 80% but I decided to rip up and re do) but project shelved for the time being, I can't afford to build the bloody thing and can't get any interest in manufacturing them.

In the audio section there was recently a midiboard by WilliamK who had a website for sponsoring his project to get it started. - http://arduino.cc/forum/index.php/topic,53369.0.html -Maybe that's the way to go?

Rob

[Reply #17 on:]

The only open design I've "seen" in the last decade or so using memory buses

Yep, not very common these days. Still built or not the design will still be open source FWIW.

a website for sponsoring his project to get it started

Yes I remember that now, kickstarter.com it's called, I'll have a poke around.

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But I checked out the midi board they are making, it seems way more complex than mine and they (Rugged Circuits and WilliamK) are selling fully loaded and tested boards for $100, hell the 2560 processor I'm using is $27 by itself (small qtys but that's what I'd be buying) and to be honest the thought of making more that 1 or 2 sends chills down my spine

So it gets back to having a Chinese company build them. I gather Seedstudios will quote, I might drop them a line because without a reasonable chance of cheap manufacture there's no point.
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Rob
   

[Reply #18 on:]

You can also contact Terry King on the forum. He is cofounder(?) of the yourduino shop which is located in China ..  - http://arduino-direct.com/sunshop/

[Reply #19 on:]

Yeah, Terry knows about the project.

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Rob