Hi Guys,
Many thanks as always for your comments.
From one mid sixties man to another can I recommend to you my book
Possibly Mike but as a complete beginner and having no prior knowledge would it be suitable?
If you buy a genuine Arduino product, you support the development of this platform.
Fair comment but how and where to purchase? As you said these clones are sold under the Auduino banner which is illegal. How doe's one deduce which is legal or not? Me I want the quality of a known product.
Pretty much any Arduino has the same pin spacing of 2.54mm (0.1"). The main difference is that boards like the Leonardo are pretty large, and you can plug things directly into the header connections. Teensies on the other hand, are much smaller. While you could connect some wires directly (either by soldering or by using female Dupont connectors), most people use it plugged into a breadboard.
The teensy is too small for I me thinks! Which auduino is the easiest to connect to mechanically/electrically? Can a pin/socket arrangement be used or breadboard headers? How do you connect the auduino to in out pins etc?
Apart from control elements (e.g. Analog and Digital), there are many other "building blocks" as well (custom MIDI outputs, IO expanders, banks of control elements, inputs to select which bank to use ...) but you don't really need them.
These elements are of interest to me as I gain more expierience
Am I correct in thinking that the auduino can be powered fromn the usb bus?
Peiter the example code. Is it ready to go? Is there more for me to learn?
It seems to me that all I need to change is analog cc no's?
Is it really that simple?
Sorry guys lots of questions I know but still a newby who has gained a little bit of knowledge!
Thanks,
Willy