[sdiy] Can I do anything useful with this?

[Jim Patchell]

    Sound like quite a find...and those are probably not pots, but encoders....

    Not being an Intel guy, I don't really know what an 8045 is, but, it sounds to me
that a little reverse engineering and you could make a midi controller out of this thing
quite easily.  You will have to get an assembler for the 8045, or find some way to
replace it with something like an AVR or PIC, and I think you are in business!

    -Jim

"THOMAS, Mervyn" wrote:

> Following the recent talk about rifling through skips (dumpsters) and
> getting lucky-
>
> I just 'found' a 'knob box' - off an old CAD system I think - it comprises 8
> pots , an 8 channel A-D converter, 8045 uC, UART + RS232 (via 8 pin mini
> DIN) interface.
>
> It's labelled IBM 6094-010 but can find no details on line. The pots just go
> round and round - never come across these before, they're marked Japan Servo
> VP22 but they don't feature on the Japan Servo website.
>
> So, question is: could this be used as a MIDI controller of some kind (via
> PC I guess) and if so how? bearing in mind I ain't the worlds most competent
> programmer :o)
>
> Read serial port > write midi data?? Could this data be merged with MIDI
> from (say) a sequencer to control a keyboard??
>
> Anyone done anything like this before or able to offer suggestions?? Seems
> such a shame to waste it...
>
> happy trails...
>
> Merv Thomas.
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