http://forums.leaflabs.com/topic.php?id=2520 A place to share, learn, and grow... en-US Fri, 22 Jan 2016 00:06:47 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://forums.leaflabs.com/search.php http://forums.leaflabs.com/topic.php?id=2520#post-12794 Wed, 22 Aug 2012 03:46:27 +0000 Anonymous 12794@http://forums.leaflabs.com/ <p>I still have yet to build a coil. That is a mighty fine looking unit you have. The spinning top is interesting. :) </p> http://forums.leaflabs.com/topic.php?id=2520#post-12787 Tue, 21 Aug 2012 23:51:24 +0000 feurig 12787@http://forums.leaflabs.com/ <p>Nice! </p> http://forums.leaflabs.com/topic.php?id=2520#post-12779 Tue, 21 Aug 2012 19:33:01 +0000 tmbomber 12779@http://forums.leaflabs.com/ <p>Hello Everybody, </p> <p>It says "The Garden" is the place to post what your using your Maple for, so I thought I'd let y'all know what's been going on at my end of the world.</p> <p>Using a Maple to interface to an automotive CAN bus wasn't working out fast enough for me. ( <a href="http://forums.leaflabs.com/topic.php?id=802" rel="nofollow">http://forums.leaflabs.com/topic.php?id=802</a> ) so I wound up going with a different solution there. This left me with a pair of Maple boards sitting on my bench and nothing to use them for.</p> <p>Months pass...</p> <p>Some friends and I have been working on playing music on a Solid State Tesla Coil. (SSTC) We originally used an Arduino Uno with a uSD shield to play music. A standard 328 was (mostly) alright for this application, as you can see here:</p> <p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M18kSpiUdMM" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M18kSpiUdMM</a></p> <p>The next step was to take a MIDI breakout board (from Sparkfun) and tie the coil into a MIDI keyboard. The 16 MHz 328 wasn't quite enough for the task at hand, so I started looking around for another solution. Right about then I stumbled across my unused Maple boards.</p> <p>I think they're working rather nicely: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwREYIpi8hs" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwREYIpi8hs</a></p> <p>Verry nicely... The faster clock speed lets the board deal with much higher pitch notes. </p> <p>I'm noticing that someone's produced a uSD library. I'm going to start playing with that so I can combine playing music from a uSD card or a keyboard into one package. </p> <p>I'll keep y'all posted on my progress </p>