2021-12-05 (Su) EWC_Panel

I added the brackets that will hold up the faceplate to do a test fit and make sure everything was at the correct level. The buttons and screen were all at the right height, but the potentiometer's slider cap was too tall to fit under the LED panels. Fortunately, I can reprint the cap perpendicularly, and it should work. If that failed, I could have printed a different adapter to make the potentiometer sit lower in the panel.

I looked up my stocked optoisolator, a standard model, and found the pinout. Next, I looked up the MIDI input schematic that isolates each system. I built the circuit on a solderless breadboard, but I still had to solder wires to the controller for power, data, and ground. I connected my timer panel with an off-the-shelf cable to confirm I was getting a signal. I had to reverse the incoming wires, but that was 50-50 when I connected them in the first place. I uploaded the Arduino example that reported data from a second serial port, but I was worried because I saw a reversed question mark ⸮. I modified the sketch to print my incoming values in base-8 and base-10, which showed that I was getting "248," which corresponds with the unusual punctuation and MIDI's clock message.
Incoming MIDI opto-isolator circuit

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