January 5th, 2010: BX-01 Mk.II
Posted by Gravecat at 2:42 am under Electronics, Mad Science, Photography. Comments (7)

BX-01 Mk.I on the left (shoddy photo), and a cleaner shot of the revised and improved Mk.II on the right.

And that’s pretty much my plans for 2010 right there. This is the first of hopefully many modular test and prototyping boards. This one provides simple I/O — yes, simple, despite the tangled myriad of wires sprouting out of its frame. BX-02 will likely be a control board with TTL ICs to provide a cleaner interface for large projects.

If I ever become some kind of mad scientist — complete with evil lair and henchmen — I fully intend to include this board at some central location in my world-crushing doomsday device, purely as a homage to my humble beginnings.

That, and I think it’d be kinda funny.

7 Responses to “BX-01 Mk.II”:

Lu — January 5th, 2010 @ 12:23 pm

But does it play music? I mean I see speakers and can you do dual-tone chiptunes? BECAUSE THAT WOULD BE AMAZING.

Because all I see right now is a lot of wires I don’t understand. :C



Gravecat — January 5th, 2010 @ 1:03 pm

Yes and no.

Yes, in theory, it could easily play dual-tone chiptunes.

But I don’t have anywhere CLOSE to the required musical knowledge to even know where to begin porting tunes over to it. Without knowing exact frequencies — in code format, not as actual musical notes — there’s pretty much no way for me to do that. It’d take me all day just to reproduce a single note, because I’m so clueless as to what’s what.



Gravecat — January 5th, 2010 @ 1:15 pm

Okay, bam. I’ve found frequencies and appropriate PWM definitions. You may be on to a potentially great idea here, will work on it and see what happens.



Lu — January 5th, 2010 @ 1:23 pm

Yaaay! I made an idea! :3

Though to be honest I was just thinking that because of the speakers. Or…not so much speakers as. You know, I don’t remember the word.

Either way, I feel kind of awesome for spawning an idea.



Lu — January 5th, 2010 @ 1:29 pm

Also at a glance, I mis-took the electrical tape for melted plastic, and wondered how it was still functioning.

Then I realised it was electrical tape. Hurr.



Gravecat — January 6th, 2010 @ 12:32 am

Okay, looks like it’s a no-go. Due to my absolute lack of musical knowledge, there’s just no way I can do this. It’s like a blind person trying to paint a portrait. ;3



Lu — January 6th, 2010 @ 1:21 am

Oh man dude. Next time I come over.

…Wait, did I ever mention that my multi-talentedness expanded to music?

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