Comments on: New Monome Kit Coming 11/30, 128 Due 12/14

By: sean

sean — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 15:49:13 +0000

I bought the logic kit and it was my first project. It's definitely doable, but watch some soldering videos on YouTube first. As Peter noted, the enclosure is the hard part. I had major help with my enclosure as seen here.

By: marc

marc — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 06:58:21 +0000

oh never mind…
logic kit $110
keypad $140

By: marc

marc — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 06:56:20 +0000

i couldn’t find a price for the new kit on their site…
am i just blind?

By: Peter Kirn

Peter Kirn — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 15:38:34 +0000

If you go to the kit link, you can actually look at step-by-step instructions with photos.

http://monome.org/40h/kit

I wouldn’t recommend it as a first-ever project. But I wouldn’t say it’s hard, either. Really, most of the work is figuring out how to build an enclosure. If you’re comfortable with that, I’d say go for it. If you don’t have any sense of what you’d do for the enclosure, there’s not much incentive to go with the kit, as enclosure creativity is kind of the main draw.

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 15:34:57 +0000

how easy is it to put this whole thing together without messing it up?

By: Peter Kirn

Peter Kirn — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 22:24:53 +0000

@mundanereality: pretty darn hard. If you want to hack your monome, I suggest one of the features documented on their site:
http://wiki.monome.org/view/WeShareInformation-2

That data actually looks like it’s being migrated around the site, but still seems to be your best bet.

@Mike: yeah, you probably want both.

By: mundanereality

mundanereality — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 22:08:06 +0000

so how difficult to a noob to assembling this kind of stuff would it be to add velocity sensitive pads

By: Jason Kramer

Jason Kramer — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 20:04:15 +0000

monome forum. – http://post.monome.org/comments.php?DiscussionID=100

By: Jason Kramer

Jason Kramer — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 20:02:35 +0000

hey peter – my kit’s been done for a little while but i figured i’d share never the less.

http://jasonrkramer.com/monome.html

also, i’ve been making bottom enclosures similar to mine by commission for some users on the .

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 16:00:40 +0000

@Peter

I was referring to the difference between the Keypad Kit and Logic Kit, but I see now that I’d probably want both. Cool. I found out about this thing a while ago…hopefully I can actually handle this thing.