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Today I’m going to talk about the what I’m going to build. Omg, sounding like a teacher already, but really I’m the student in this. So first let me explain my motivation..

I already own a monome 40h and i really like it, but I’m always jealous of those bigger machines out there Especially when it comes down to the semi quaver…

Also I find it challenging to understand the insights of such a great little box and would be überproud to create one my own.

So what do I want to build?

Basically this is a list of attributes the final monome shall have (sorted by priority):

• 128 buttons (I like the for factor and if I succeed I can build me just another 256 ) …
• … in one unit (no two 64s which are routed as one device. I want a true 128 in one piece)
• USB + 9V power supply
• Support for the series protocol
• Based on the slightly larger button pads by SparkFun
• Using the SparkFun PCBs for RGB LEDs, too.
• Finally those RGB LEDs will also be included, to support RGB
• RGB extension to the series protocol (hope there will be a quasi standard on this soon, more on this later..)

Also there are some constraints I imposed myself:

• I don’t want to build it, using an Arduino…
• … except for using it to try out hardware layouts and burn the micro controller
• So I want to modify the original 40h firmware and burn it on an ATMega micro controller probably the ATMega32 (as i already got two of those)

I’m not sure yet how I’ll proceed with the illumination of the 128 RGB button, but I don’t want to use the SparkFun SPI RGB LED Matrix BackPack (long name, i know)… But this need a lot of further investigation, and I’m looking forward to it

So stay tuned as the next time I’m going to give a short summary about current running projects that try to build similar or comparable projects.