MonkeyJam - A DIY digital stompbox is now released for public consumption - Page 1
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author: ehughes
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: May 06, 2014, 07:53:08 pm
content: Given that I am fully engaged in the hacker/maker education culture, I thought some of you may be interested in this. I am working with Freescale University Programs (I teach at PSU) to develop a set of "projects" to get students, hackers, makers, etc to the next level. The idea is to have some nicely packaged projects that go beyond the normal "Arduino" space and start diving into some more difficult topics (i.e. take off the training wheels) Each project comes with video lectures/training on various embedded systems topics. Everything is completely open sourced (software on Github, full access to raw hardware design files, everything ready to go for OSHPark PCB fab). Education in embedded systems is what we are after while having fun!In this case, it is all about real time signal processing! I like Audio as most people have an intuitive sense about it. Check out some of the audio samples (PATCH_OVERDRIVE turned out quite nice)! Over 4 Hours of video instruction is provided.https://community.freescale.com/docs/DOC-100149Here is the main project roadmap (5 total in the works now.... Would love to hear suggestions for new ones!):https://community.freescale.com/docs/DOC-99621-Eliehughes --at-- wavenumber ..dot.. net

author: nerdyHippy
author_rank: Contributor
timestamp: May 08, 2014, 05:04:13 am
content: That overdrive sounds incredible, nice work!

author: GK
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 08, 2014, 11:27:10 am
content: Quote from: ehughes on May 06, 2014, 07:53:08 pmRoadmap?The trendy lingo and the infantile monkey cartoons detract from everything else in a major way. What age group are you targeting? I recall we were beyond being either enthused or persuaded by that kind of educational marketing before finishing primary school. Maybe today's generation is different, I dunno. I couldn't picture the guys who put man on the moon earning their engineering "chops" doing as monkey does.

author: G0HZU
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 09, 2014, 12:09:31 am
content: To be fair 'roadmap' gets used a lot by some of our RF component suppliers. It's a trendy term that gets used to show (for example) where a semiconductor manufacturer aims to be in 1,2 or 5 years' time in terms of capability. A typical example would be a 'GaN roadmap' for a manufacturer of GaN parts.google 'GaN roadmap' to see what I mean. Usually there's a publicly available 'roadmap' and there's also a more secret roadmap available if you get into NDA territory etc.But they don't use kids' cartoons of monkeys anywhereThe monkey cartoons do look a bit infantile on that website and they don't fit in at all with the subject matter...

author: ehughes
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: May 14, 2014, 08:55:45 pm
content: QuoteThanks!The term roadmap is just used to preview that is coming up. You may have a better term to use but what we are calling the roadmap is just the document used to preview what is currently being worked on. The purpose here is purely educational. The schedule and roadmap isn't being driven by anything other than the desire to make up some projects that may spark someone's interest via lights, motion and sound!That said I hope it isn't 5 years until they are completed. The target completion of the 1st 5 is by Maker Faire in NYC 2014. Hope to show them off! That being said I have a day job, kids, etc so it is a balance between polish and getting them out the door!QuoteNASA would beg to differ.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkeys_and_apes_in_spacewithout Monkey's we would have never made it to the moon. :-) Don't get your panties in a knot. The idea is to have a little fun. :-)That and the fact you are even talking about it means the images served their purpose 100%.

author: Harvs
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 15, 2014, 04:33:30 am
content: I watched the fixed point series. Really good videos, it's a topic people find hard to understand so it's good to have a video series to point them to.