EffectPedal

Projects
Participants
Skills	Soldering, Coding, UI design
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 I2C port Expander and LCD-display to make a 'stompbox' effects-pedal using hardware inputs and software processing.

Hardware

• Pandora portable computer
• MSP430 Launchpad for prototyping (libs I wanted to use are not yet compatible, and I don't have the skills to rewrite them :) )
• I2C port Expander (TI PCF8574N)
• ext-connector and breakout-board

Software

• Puredata
• Possible external to talk to the GPIO-pins
• 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)
• Rename/categorize, because of no more MSP430
• Next project -> replace Pandora with RasPi, which to embed inside the stompbox