jarndice wrote:Thank you Rad, I think you just took over my weekend reading your Blog and Benedini's own write up of his different products.
Thanks for the tip about ordering a programming cable with the board,
Have you thought of writing your own handbook easing newbies into programming the Benedini board ?
I realise you do not have the time but their really is so little material available, And the lack of such "How to" booklets must surely put off a lot of potential users of such useful equipment.
I confess to not always agreeing with everything you write but I read every word because it is never boring and always honest.
Keep it coming.
Hi Jarndice, thanks for your kind words, I apreciate them a lot.
The "Dasmikro/Benedini mikro" entry in my blog was just an experimental entry I did, back in the day, when I had nothing to publish on the blog. I just copied and pasted some parts of this thread on it and promished myself to go back at it at some point and correct it or add new things:
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Maybe you can take a look at it, there is a nice bunch of info which is not in the blog. Anyway, the plan is, in a month or two, (or maybe three, lol) to completelly rewrite that entry and publish it with updated info. Now I understand better than back in the day how the product works!
Anyway I am really amazed about the TONS of views I receive in my blog just because of that outdated and not very usefull blog entry. I can say more than a 65% of the poor souls that reach my blog is because of that entry, and is people from the entire world. Asia, europe, US... Even africa. That makes me believe two things:
1) The Dasmikro clone is selling like hot bread. ( Poor Thomas
)
2) There are indeed a lot of people that has the board and no clue of how to make it work.
Both does not surprise me at all. The clone has a cheapo price and is affordable even for sick people like me, and also as you point, the lack of info about how to make this board work is unbelievable. Info is either non existant or very confusing... (at least it was last time I checked) And my experience is people uses the board it as it is, with the stock sounds, and never think about replacing them. Even worse, most people do not know they can replace the sounds and it has lights outputs. I have seen some threads about people asking how to wire an electronic switch for installing headlights into a WPL truck with the dasmikro, when the board has all the light outputs any mortal might need, lol.
About making a guide-how to... Well, it is complicated. I will try but it is complicated. Why? Because I dont know what is the radio people are using. You know I repeated it to death in the forum that the most important part of the hobby, is the radio. With the 4ch Tamiya attack radios most people uses, I see absolutelly no way to use this board. (except plain engine sound, of course)
People should start with a decent (that does
NOT mean expensive) radio, or handmade a 12 position encoder, which is not easy for the beginners.
Second problem I see about this... Is plain simple: I dont want to offend anobody here, but most of the people just does not care at all about the sounds or even lights. Sometimes is frustrating to share new ideas or to teach the how to, and having almost no answers. Look at the entry I created the other day about triggering 24 user sounds in the elmod, almost no answer and I really thought it could be interesting. At the other hand, user Mr. X opens a post with "Look, I bought a heng long tiger 1" and receives 7 pages of comments. Well, lol.
EDIT: Of course I understand everybody is different and there are people that can have fun just stocking boxes of virgin Heng Long tanks.
Anyway I owe all that I learnt to a guy that created an entry like mine in a forum talking about his programable radio. He was talking what seemed chinesse to me and almost nobody answered him... But I read it, learnt it and I was amazed about the hobby posibilities. So, as like that guy did, if only one guy learns something from any of my tutorials, it was well worth the effort.
Thanks to god it seems there is a small bunch of people interested on what I do.
In your case, Jarndice, I do know you have ASP2 boards. Those boards back in the day had way, way more functions than most of the boards nowadays, and being able to trigger all the functions was complicated and required several radio mods that I followed in the rc tanks australia forum. That makes me believe you did those mods too, or you got a radio from Rc tanks australia, or at least you are using any radio that has er9x, erskytx or opentx as a firmware. Is that correct? If yes, that is a great starting point.
I also do want to make my own notes. Due to I have several systems, if you dont use one for a while you can forget it. I controll all my toys in the same way with the functions in the same switches, but what varies are the radio mixes, and it would be great to keep them saved for future reference or for sharing with all of you.
Anyway 95% of what I can write about the Benedini mini applies directly to the benedini micro. The use is almost the same, but I will keep the details for a future blog entry. I dont want to start boring now! lol