Build Your Own Portable ModPit Wheel Box MIDI Controller (for less than $40 USD and no soldering!)

[@dragunilla]

I am very happy you included some black arts magick at the end to finish of the technomancy with some good old necromancy!

[@lleevveell66]

lol, thank you! 🙏

[@pjforde1978]

Appreciate the can-do spirit, but if you're trying to optimize for cheap, why not connect some pots to an arduino and save $25? This might sound like a rebuke, but I'm coming from a positive place... I'm watching you tear down this keyboard, and I'm confident that you have the skillset required to build the real thing. If nothing else, it's less shipping emissions and plastic landfill. Check out Nerd Musician's channel. He has lots of great tutorials: kzbin.info/www/bejne/eYmnf6yphc2Voa8

[@lleevveell66]

When you're right, you're right. I wouldn't've taken that negatively. Appreciate you easing into it, though. Something I mention in the GitHub, but probably not in the video is that I need to clear my electronics bench. Meaning, it's pretty much a giant shelf, right now. The thought did occur, even with 3D-printed wheels, etc. Everything could be made so much smaller and more comfortable, AND give the option for o.g. 5-pin MIDI. But, getting those mounted so that pitch bend would snap back very well would be a challenge, at least for me. So, then I looked into buying only these sorts of assemblies, saw the choices were mostly for replacements for nicer equipment, meaning higher prices... wondered where I could just quickly acquire cheap wheel assemblies... like they use in cheaper - aha! And, here we are. So, it was more a balance of optimizing for cheap + easy. ;) I'll definitely be checking out that channel, thanks my friend! 🙏