MaskedNozza:
I wanted to ask what sorts of speakers people normally use on their soundboards. I've done some researching and all I can seem to find are something called "lilypad speakers". From their specs, it doesn't seem like they'd have nearly the kind of output volume or quality that most arduino sabers seem to have, but I wanted to get a sort of poll on what most people normally use for audio output.
Thanks so much for all your help thus far, Protonerd! Once I have the speaker I'll be constructing my internal chassis and figuring out how my external chassis will go together! If I'm streaming some of it or upload a video, where would you prefer that I post a notification, if at all?
Protonerd:
Maybe the info was not sticking to the eyes, but I tried to get the message through that the V3 was at that time in pre-order, due in April.
I have therefore good news for you: this week I'm going to pick up the assembled batch, so I expect shipping in the course of next week.
Knew they were on Pre-order. Just wanted to see if there was a more concrete shipping date. Thanks for the info. Looking forward to working with the board.
Thanks for creating this awesome board. I recently bought a V3 for a saber I built and it's working great. The DIYino with FX-SaberOS is a scratchbuilder's dream.
I'm starting another saber and I'd like to have more LED's. Other than D11, D12, D13 and A0(D14) are there any pins that can be used for custom I/O? It looks like D3 and D4 aren't used, but there are no breakouts for those pins.
If you tell me for what purpose and what kind of LEDs you need, we could brainstorm how to make it happen. The Stardust V3 does not have any additional I/Os to drive LEDs or such, but since nowadays very often neopixels are used and for static lightning you can hook up an LED to the battery as well, let's see if you really need the extra pins.
While neopixel stripes from AliExpress might conform to the WS2812B (or similar) spec, they are of inferior quality. Please do yourself a favor and do not order from AliExpress.
You can get good quality neopixel stripes from Amazon, many ebay sellers mostly from US and EU sources sell reliable stripes as well.
One more hint: ships specializing in saber parts like JQ or KR from England (I mention them as they are still EU for 2 more hours...) sell stripes for comparable price like other vendors. Worth to have a look! Same applies probably to US-sources.
avrdude: stk500_getsync() attempt 1 of 10: not in sync: resp=0x4c
avrdude: stk500_getsync() attempt 2 of 10: not in sync: resp=0x30
avrdude: stk500_getsync() attempt 3 of 10: not in sync: resp=0x31
avrdude: stk500_getsync() attempt 4 of 10: not in sync: resp=0xff
avrdude: stk500_getsync() attempt 5 of 10: not in sync: resp=0xff
avrdude: stk500_getsync(): can't communicate with device: resp=0x04
An error occurred while uploading the sketch
I'd previously got the code uploaded fine but need to make some tweak but now keep getting this!