As I said, here are more details on the completion of my arduinome. As I mentioned before, I only ran into a single issue once I had all of the components assembled. When I first plugged it in after uploading the firmware, all of the lights were lit and the startup sequence ran turning each row off in succession, instead of turning each row on. A quick search on Google brought up this post on PeterMark's blog with the exact same issue. Upon further inspection, I found that I had indeed swapped the IDC headers for the input and output. Swapping the connections resolved the issue and the startup sequence activated as planned.
I've run through the standard test patches using MAX (monometest, vu_spec, boiiing, etc) and everything is running smoothly. I've even been able to play with SevenUpLive,which is the shit.
I've posted a couple of pictures showing some detail on the final setup. First, this thing is BRIGHT. The LED's are rated at 6000 mcd, color and intensity seems to be uniform, and they're a nice deep blue. My camera can't really handle how bright they are, so the picture above is a bit over saturated and looks much lighter blue than the actual unit. The "dot" effect isn't as noticeable in person, either.
For now I have to keep the board raised because the wiring from the breakout board to the buttons is a little short and I don't want to stress any of the connections. Once I figure out the whole enclosure situation I think that the short connections will help manage the wiring situation and keep the insides of the box clean. It's not something that anyone will likely ever see, but it should keep troubleshooting easier should problems arise.
The board as it currently stands. Note the durable Scotch tape assembly.
The final view of the assembled aruduinome.
I'll try to post some videos soon as well as start working on a detailed set of build instructions.
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