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Originally Posted by iangomes  i'm doing pushbutton. I'm making my own panel on frontpanelexpress.
as for gdiy, I just found the thread that is stressing you out, and I can't believe that they're still helping you! Cmon, gdiy isn't a place to get a paint by numbers. It's about getting gear for a bit less, and learning about electronics!! If you don't care to learn anything, buy a commercial one. It'll be way better than anything you can make, and if the unit breaks, you'll have some means of fixing it (warranty). If you just paint by numbers, and it breaks, you're ****ed. |
I wasn't asking for paint by numbers. I mean this is my fifth project now, all of which went just fine. But the problem is that almost all the existing info is about either an older version or the push button version. There's a lot less good info about the rotary version of the new boards. No one has posted pictures to look at for ideas that I can find, and the wiring guide for Gyraf version. And half the time the info you find may be out of date and it's hard to know when that's the case.
So I was just trying to make sure I wasn't messing up. I even offered to do a diagram of the thing for others to use in the future, which would have ended up taking a fair amount of my time since I was going to do a very nice one that would have made it very easy to build, but they still kept acting like I was some kind of freeloader.
So they just pissed me off with their attitude, and I'm not going back there anymore. I don't want their help or anything to do with them. I'll either finish it myself or junk it. If I wasn't the kind of person who goes way out of his way to help other people in my fields of expertise, maybe I'd have not reacted so strongly. But I just don't have any respect their kind of attitude.
If someone comes there looking to learn about electronics, that's fine. But in the end, they don't seem to understand the point of these things is to make music and therefore most people just want them in order to make music. A couple of simple diagrams could have been done years ago, and it would have made it very easy for anyone to build, and those people wouldn't have had to bother anyone there with their newbie questions. That's something I would have done immediately if I were on such a site as a regular.