New project, new experience.

Hello everyone,

I'm new here and new to arduino. I have been doing some simple programming I learned online and starting to get my feet wet with all of this. I have decided to start with arduino because I have many ideasand projects I am very excited to create, yet no skills to really get it done. I like to share what my plans and ideas are and wondering if these seem like logical ideas. First, I have found the the 'hiduino' project appears to start me in just the right direction. My first goal is to use this code to allow midi messages to be sent directly from my audio recording software to the 8U2 chip, and then to another micro controller to output 8 bit data to AD557 chip to output voltage. What I'm hoping to accomplish is that this process will properly function using arduino, then I will be able to design my own circuits and make this external project a reality. I understand that arduino is used for prototyping and so as long as I were to design my own circuit boards based on what I did with arduino, this should work.

Anyways, feel free to ask questions as I am very vague in this post about the project at hand, but I'm looking forward to success!

Hi,

That doesn't sound vague at all. And yes, if you prototype it with Arduino you will be able to produce your own boards based on the same hardware.. Typically that's cheaper than trapping an Arduino and a stack of shields in every project, though that can sometimes be more convenient for a 1-off.

All the best with your project,
Geoff