I bought this macropad recently with a nice discount, it has 3 encoders. Going to experiment with rpi3 and this thing as soon as I get it, possibly there could be some conclusions and POCs made before uConsole finally arrives.
Thats pretty neat, im sure there will be a way of utilizing that
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I’m still waiting on my uconsole. Does a teensy fit in the case and are there still pins open so you can connect it internally? Have you actually integrated it already?
I’d be very curious to see that cause i’m planning to give that a try aswell
To answer my own question. I guess one could add another usb slot via mini-pci e and then connect the teensy and hide it inside the case I guess?
Thats what i was thinking, where the expansion board goes but yet i havent gotten my uconsole yet
Yeah I researched it a bit and I guess it would work but one would loose the internal speakers without a custom expansion board
I saw ad’s for the Teenage Engineering K.O. II. The K.O II has a built in mic for recording samples and that gave me ideas of what I plan on doing with my uConsole. I could buy a small mic to record samples when I’m walking around outside and use the keyboard as a programmable drum pad for making lo-fi beats. Also, plugging a Midi keyboard would be also cool.
Yh i was thinking of a custom expansion board where you just solder on a teensy to or if it can be done just attach to the upico epansion with pins
I had to increase the scale of Sunvox, but this looks like the perfect audio software for my uConsole. Once my mini USB mic arrives, I could use that for recording real-time samples. Lo-fi town here I come.
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Actually there is a expansion board already on this forum that has a internal usb connection for the teensy for example aswell as additional usb ports. The uHub
Siiick looks better than i thought it would look, maybe you can get a usb expansion to get more inputs for midi and other instruments
Yh but that involves a hanging teensy board somewhere, i think it would look more clean with a expansion module dedicated to it
Oh okay, would be neat indeed but I think I’ll just print something small to fit the teensy so it does not fly around
Well you could just replace the internal usb for a micro usb connector and have the teensy be ontop of the expansion when plugged in, just make sure to not make any contacts that arent supposed to be connected between the teensy and the uhub
I don’t think I am skilled enough to do such things yet 
also sadly I can’t order the uHub from his link yet since he doesn’t ship internationally for now.
But I’d also like to have a switch between the teensy and the usb so I can turn it off when I’m not using it cause it draws quiet some power.
You can download the pcb files and print one yourself, ive asked the guy too and they are fine with it, all that needs replacing is one part and with places like jlcpcb they can add all the components on for you, just have to order 5 minimum which is the problem
I might look into it myself
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a dedicated board with a slot for the teensy and maybe some more audio/midi io would be the dream i guess
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Could use the extra usbc ports to add midi devices and audio interfaces
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I’m also a big Teenage engineering fan and plan on doing a KO (first version) replacement of my own. Thanks for the link to the version 2!
Otherwise, I’m running supercollider (headless and with editor) on the a06 and it’s working well. But I’ve only been doing generated audio and nothing with sampling yet.