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

I'm going in circles finding a link to buy one.

Thanks for doing this, peace love and beats to the monomes!!

^that was me.

later this week!

LOL thanks.

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What an exciting night - kits AND an 8x16 announced.  I guess the 
obvious question is... how hard will it be to make an 8x16 out of the 
kits (without doing the dual-USB/USB hub method)?  If I have a fair 
amount of experience programming C on microcontrollers, would it be a 
viable hack?  Or would it even require reprogramming (I assume it would 
if I wanted to use only 1 logic kit, but then again I'd have to get 
another LED driver chip right?)  Sorry for doing the lame 
"custom/special exception" thing, but a DIY 8x16 has always been my 
dream.

so are the keypad kits the old 40h size buttons or the new smaller 
buttons?

i'm in with one keypad kit.
will you be able to ship this out prior to 14th to Washington DC ? I'm 
currently in US until the 14th, so i could save some time/money on the 
shipments.

Please drop me a short mail... So far the logic kit and my experiments 
with it are doing quite well.

Dth'aaaa  !
I've already bought the button's fattier, cheezier cousins ... the ones 
at "the other place" (<---- so as not to be advertising them).  The 
backplate, pcb breakout was out of stock ... now I don't know what I'll 
do for that.

I am counting on my local radioshack for the other menial stuff... it's 
been a While and I don't even know where my other iron is.

Oh well!
Congrats on the new business!! you deserve it!
cheers,
-h

the keypad kit will use the 40h keypads and grid pcb.

as stated in the text at http://monome.org/40h/kit (absolutely read this 
if you plan on getting one) boards can be tiled in one direction for an 
8x16.

this would require two logic boards. if you wanted to design you own 
logic board to handle two 8x8 grids, go for it.

hey brian, all. what will be the modibility of this board? for instance 
were i so say want to add a high res rotary encoder, or a pitch-bend 
wheel or something of that nature would it be possible without an insane 
work around?

btw i'm still gonna get one regardless ;)

the board for the 40h has 4 adc or 2 optical encoder ports built-in, and 
the firmware and both monome serial and monome serialXP (coming out 
soon!) have support for this built-in.  id imagine the logic kits are 
identical, so it shouldnt be a problem.  ive been messing around with a 
40h with encoder and i must say its pretty much awsome, having a custom 
box with 2 encoder controls, or even better, some way of making an XY or 
joystick controller connected to the encoder inputs would simply be 
amazing!  and, as brian said, both adc and optical-based controls take 
almost no extra power, so one USB cable is still ok.

you raised an important point here, which is that the thru40h logic 
board (the kit) is functionally identical to the original 40h board. 
code will execute precisely the same, and the same options are on board.

i am so jazzed for all this.

I'm going away for a few days (Vegas!), looks like the release might 
happen while I'm gone and I might miss out.  Do I cancel the trip or 
spend my time in Vegas hitting the refresh button in a cafe?

i kinda doubt it will go that fast... also, im thinking Brian would be 
willing to hold one for you anyways!

i'm going to push the pre-order back one week, don't worry.

boards should be here last week of june, we don't want to hold people's 
money for that long.

That makes me happy and sad.  If you need help holding or counting 
peoples' money I'm there for you bro, no problem.


/joking about the money, I hope it will pay of a trip to the makerfaire, 
future prototypes and your free time, thanks for your work.

where will i have to ship to and when?

pre-orders at the end of next week. 15th or so.

shipping at the end of the month, when the parts get here.

i am toying with the idea of making one half of my upcoming 2 x 40h 
green, and the other red. i am looking forward for the kits to become 
available. i have one original logic board already, so i will get 
another one, plus two kits for the keys. i had to sell my original 40h 
to afford the parts, but at least now i will have the satisfaction of 
assembling my very own custom 80h :-)

posted a side-photo of the logic board, for those eager to plan 
enclosure designs. also posted dimensions.

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

...is it time yet?

almost!

i'm waiting for the last couple 40h/se payments to go through, as i have 
to swap out the old order system for the new kit order system on the 
server. holding off until then will save me a lot of time.

if not tonight, tomorrow. and honestly, this is for pre-orders, these 
kits won't ship for about two weeks since the parts aren't even here 
yet.

i'll post when it's ready. thanks for the patience!