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ebai101

  • Nov 2, 2020
  • Joined Jun 11, 2019
  • 7 discussions
  • 26 posts
  • In fit a bela mini into a hammond 125b case (small guitar pedal size)

    here are some pics of my bela mini enclosure :-) it fits all perfectly and can be disassembled quite easily. the two button/switches hold the board and the bela mini in place. i changed out the 3.5mm jacks for 6.3mm, since they are more sturdy. it can be powered from an external 5v source or via the micro usb port (since that is a bit flimsy i added the power input) it also features two LEDs as a bare minimum UI to control/monitor patch switching.

    bela mini attached to the board with pin headers so it can easily be removed again:

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    bottom side of "mainboard", as you can see i only brought out one row of pins per bela side as that is sufficient for stability and i only needed those pins anyway (except for the 3.3v, can you spot it?):

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    everything except 6.3mm jacks in the enclosure, note how precisely the bela mini fits into the case...:

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    paint job to do:

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    ports:

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  • In Building a custom cape

    ebai101 Are there any resources available for modifying the Bela cape?

    No, just the schematics, PCB and BOM (...) 🙂 Oh, and our consultancy services, drop us a line at info@bela.io if you are interested.

    ebai101 However, I have tried in the past to compile a program without the cape on, and it seems that the software checks for the cape before going forward.

    Without the cape on, the program fails to initialize the codec and therefore stops. There is no check for the SPI peripheral. As long as you use the same codec on the same pins, you should be fine.