EffectPedal

Projects
Participants
Skills	Soldering, Coding, UI design, Audio
Status	Getting parts
Niche	Electronics
Purpose	Fun

The idea is to use the Pandora and it's I/O on the Ext-Connector in combination with an MSP430, buttons/knobs, and Character-display, to make a 'stompbox' effects-pedal using hardware inputs and software processing.

Hardware

• Pandora portable computer
• MSP430 Launchpad for prototyping (communicating over UART)
• ext-connector and breakout-board
• Audio-plugs, buttons, knobs (pot-meter? rotary-encoder?), hd44780-display,

Software

• Puredata
• Possibly a Pd-external to talk to the GPIO-pins (UART/serial should work 'out of the box')
• MSP430-embedded code

Ideas

• Use Pandora touchscreen for direct control -> Kaospad-ish effects
• Do video-processing as well (GEM, pdp) over the video-out for live visuals (GEM may not (yet) work on OpenGL ES2)
• Next project -> replace Pandora with RasPi, which to embed inside the stompbox