Hardware testing and device support adding

[mchbrk]

Hi Greg @Builty!

I really appreciate your work and I am a huge fan of the idea you started.

I would love to participate and help in contributing builds for different types of devices. I've already bought plenty of different items for testing with the project and maybe adding some support for them - that would be really awesome to cover more hardware specs for our community!

I would love to hear from you if you are interested in collaborating, I have also some ideas to expand the project and I would love to design 3D printable cases for different hardware setups. I own 3D printer, both Tonex Pedal and Tonex One, Chocolate and Chocolate Plus, but also some other goodies like expression pedal which I would really love to utilize with Tonex One as Amp Volume control for example.

Personally I am quite new to microchips, Arduino, ESPs etc, but I am developer with >15yr of experience in coding and nerding around different stuff ;)

If you are interested in some spare time collab then let me know!
Best regards! Peace!

[Builty]

Hi. Sorry it took me a little while to respond. I'm getting so much contact from people.
I am interested in collaborating for sure.
With regards to adding different types of devices, are you thinking different ESP32-S3 boards? Or other types of hardware?

With the ESP boards, I've made a lot of work for myself already. Everytime I do a new feature, I have to test across lots of different devices with small diferences. Sometimes it takes longer to test all than itt does to code the feature.
So I think we need some care there with adding too many.

[mchbrk]

I mean ESP32 devices. I already bought some different ESP32 (but not only) variations as I am going to build some different stuff, most musical 😇 I already have different waveshare devices you recommended, but also S3 minis, espresiff, but also some others like H2 or C6 (not to mention C3 which you already told are not capable of running the software...) I can make a list of hardware I collected for testing and share with you. If I can help in any way - adopting new hardware (other ESP32S3 from other vendors or other versions), testing the code, designing 3D cases, dropping some tutorials then or sth I am fully interested to help, as I would love to get some skills in electronics and this kind of devices programming after 15yrs of professional development in other (mostly web and mobile) technologies 😅 I am pasionate about music (synths, drums and guitars) and creating stuff, thats my main motivation to get into the builders land - to create my own MIDI controllers and musical devices. Besides I own some 3D printers and would love to fit those goodies into nice boxes, so the community could have full fledged DIY project that looks almost like of the shelf 🤓 Do you have any other way to communicate? Whatsapp? Telegram? Messenger? Maybe we should get project's Slack or Discord? 😅 Hope to hear from you soon Greg 👋☮️ śr., 5 mar 2025, 22:44 użytkownik Builty ***@***.***> napisał:

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Hi. Sorry it took me a little while to respond. I'm getting so much contact from people. I am interested in collaborating for sure. With regards to adding different types of devices, are you thinking different ESP32-S3 boards? Or other types of hardware? With the ESP boards, I've made a lot of work for myself already. Everytime I do a new feature, I have to test across lots of different devices with small diferences. Sometimes it takes longer to test all than itt does to code the feature. So I think we need some care there with adding too many. — Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#91 (comment)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AC5ORIRRPHPSKKEMNKH4CNT2S5V45AVCNFSM6AAAAABYJQV52OVHI2DSMVQWIX3LMV43URDJONRXK43TNFXW4Q3PNVWWK3TUHMYTENBQGY4DANA> . You are receiving this because you authored the thread.Message ID: ***@***.*** com>

[Builty]

Wow, sounds great. All of the things you mentioned I think would be a great value to the growing community we have here.

As far as communications, at the moment I'm getting lots of contact via Facebook/Messenger/Youtube comments/Github. It's keeping me very busy keeping up with all of that. I'll look at something better going but maybe for now we stick to Github.

As far as current developments, I'm doing final testing for V1.0.8.2, which adds support for I2C IO expander with up to 16 footswitches. Can assign how many do preset switching, and also up to 5 that can toggle effects (actually any parameter that has midi CC control.)

After that I would like to migrate the project up to the latest ESP IDF, and try to get support for USB hubs going. With that, hopefully can get USB Midi going.
I'm keeping in mind however the upcoming IK release, which I'm expecting will require fast changes, so am trying to not change too much right now and not introduce any bugs.

[Builty]

I'm also still getting lots of support requests, where many of the answers are already in the docs. I'm not sure if its hard to find, or not clear enough, or maybe people prefer to watch video tutorials. I think improvements are needed here somehow.

[mchbrk]

Hey, sorry for silence, but I am switching job just after I'm back from skiing holidays...
Comming week I will try to document all the stuff I collected to testand work with. Today also ordered IO expansion boards from different vendors but still SX1509 :)
Cant wait some hacking with those goodies!

[Builty]

Sounds great.

I've got some changes in the works. Support for tap tempo. Global params BPM, input trim, tempo source, cabinet bypass. Presence and Depth controls. Just need to figure out the preset cabinet settings.