Comments on: RGB monome clone

By: djmoran

djmoran — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 21:17:00 +0000

Ummm…. part 2 is missing

By: julienb

julienb — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 12:09:22 +0000

http://www.julienbayle.net/diy/LiveInterface/ updated

last pcb designing for this project here too:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/julien-bayle/2892234960/

By: julienb

julienb — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 12:28:42 +0000

some updates on my page:

http://www.julienbayle.net/diy/LiveInterface/

By: Ben

Ben — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 22:31:19 +0000

@emilio,

Yes, monomes from monome are expensive, and there are good reasons for that, as detailed by the others. Expensive? Yes. Overpriced? I don't think so.

You also should remember that their system is open source, which greatly helps those who find the price of one of their beautifully crafted objects to be a barrier to entry.

So, I think that Monome deserve a great amount of credit for that.

ben

By: emilio

emilio — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 20:06:35 +0000

right, but what if someone doesn’t care about an aluminum faceplate and high quality handmade wooden blah blah blah? what if someone’s not shopping for a Bentley, they’re just an artist who wants to screw around? we’re not all Deadelus or Moby.

i’m startled at some of the premium prices charged for creative tools (case in point: MAX). yes, economics of production can demand those prices, but few people seem to be in a hurry to make cool, production high-tech tools that are affordable. thus the beauty of this DIY project.

By: julienb

julienb — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 01:52:16 +0000

thanks for link to my site.
it is just an aggregation of information.
I didn't code anything on myself.
I'll probably finish it soon (rgb code support)

By: XNDR

XNDR — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 22:31:38 +0000

Add the labour and manufacturing costs of an aluminium faceplate and a high quality handmade wooden enclosure and you won’t even come close to $200.. Surely the boxes could be cheaper, mass produced in the far east by little children, working in hazardous environments… It’s all a matter of choice, you decide what to support..

By: Dan

Dan — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 20:40:29 +0000

The monomes are hand made. And the Yamaha tenori-on is like the two fifty six monome and is only $200 less. The demand for monomes will keep the price high. I’m building my own single color arduinome (arduino based monome clone using the sparkfun baords and its gonna be about $200. THe 2 kits necessary to make a 40h kit are $250 combined, so mine will cost a little less. If the demand is big enough, then the monome is not overpriced.

By: emilio

emilio — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 19:25:22 +0000

sweet, man! those monomes are hilariously overpriced, so kudos for sidestepping them and building an even better one! granted, those sparkfun button pads aren’t cheap, but this probably all came out under the monome’s price. hopefully DIY efforts like this will force the monome folks to be a little more realistic about their pricing (or their hardware choices).