what happened to this project? this is what i want.

what about a SYNC24 ability?

Oh man, this is super exciting. Hopefully I can build up my soldering confidence enough to put one together eventually. Kudos to you for finding such cheap components and planning to make everything freely available, Jeff

This may already be linked in the thread somewhere but I saw this and thought of your project:  http://www.astro-designs.com/page14.php

That's really neat.  My best solution so far is connecting serially to an ATMega microcontroller.  This solves both the limited IO as well as level conversion and it means that the RasPi can now deal with loads of 5v and 3v3 logic level signals.

I've also added a super cheap nokia 5110 LCD.  These are insanely inexpensive ($5.80 plus free shipping worldwide from DX.com) and insanely simple to wire up and drive and it can be driven directly by the RasPi's 3v3 signals.  This LCD is nice because it gives you 84 x 48 pixels to play with and uses only 5 GPIO pins (the same as my previous 5 LEDs).  This means we can display text and simple bitmap graphics!

I shot a video of the LCD screen working yesterday on my phone but somehow the video got corrupted and you can only hear the audio.  I'll try taking another video soon showing off the basic features so far.

nice find hopefully this helps with the development

This might be useful:
http://m0xpd.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/mid … n-rpi.html

This is incredible and exciting.

It's ideas like this that make the chip community great.

First of all, this project won't necessarily require any soldering skills.

Second, learning basic soldering takes 20 minutes.

Third, other people are totally free to use my software/design to make commercial products from it as long as they remain open source and credit is given.

Last off, I've been hard at work and as soon as I get my camera back I'll be able to show off the RasberryBoy v0.1!

Damm I was hoping on a final product, which we could buy by you because I don’t have any soldering skills. So I guess I will go buying one of the other models – following this topic is useless for me.

Thatd be good enough for me! especially the software.

I thought the same but since keep everything sorted ina  big case now, its much more transparent to just plug in link cable and audio cable and rocking.

The one thing I'd like to see is a more natural setup between a handheld and another midi enabled device.  MIDI=>GBs are great but big and clunky.  Oliver's usb stick requires usb, and thus, big clunky computer.

I just want to take a freakin' cable, plug it into my game boy advance, and have the other end of the cable be male MIDI.

Well you beat me to my idea. And I'm kinda glad because I hav no idea what I'm doing but I got my Rpi and have been looking for projects and one that came to mind was a chip midi controller

I don't have the time to sell these.  I'd simply be putting schematics and software online, fully open-source.