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		<title>Hiatus</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So I should have posted this about two weeks ago, I guess. Anyhow Maker Faire was a lot of fun, and we even won an editor&#8217;s choice ribbon, although we&#8217;re one of a number of winners (That&#8217;s just the tip of the iceberg &#8211; a 30 second Google search will reveal a lot more..  I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.openchord.org/2010/06/hiatus/</link>
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		<title>Maker Faire, Day Zero</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve arrived at Maker Faire! Today is setup, but we did have a nice time showing off the guitar and the prototype violin this morning for the Young Maker&#8217;s day. They&#8217;ve got the Singing Tesla Coils here, so it was pretty cool to listen to them, even if the RF emissions they generate knock our [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.openchord.org/2010/05/maker-faire-day-zero/</link>
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		<title>Maker Faire</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just to let you know, we&#8217;re going to be at Maker Faire this coming weekend there in San Francisco!  Please come by and check us out if you&#8217;re in the area! We&#8217;ll be demoing the V1 as well as our work so far on the V1 Violin, and we&#8217;d love to see you! Share this [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.openchord.org/2010/05/maker-faire/</link>
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		<title>Articles and Posts!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you didn&#8217;t see it, our video involving Street Fighter 4 is on Hack-a-Day.  Also, there&#8217;s an interview up on OpenSource.com, where I muse about why we&#8217;re open source, the challenges, and our future.  Thanks! Share this on del.icio.us Digg this! Post this on Diigo Share this on Facebook Post on Google Buzz Add this to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.openchord.org/2010/05/articles-and-posts/</link>
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		<title>Our Apologies</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;re sorry, but in building a few more kits, we&#8217;ve noticed that there are occasional problems with a kit not working. At first, we figured that it was just some random errors in a handful of boards. However, with the help of the new oscilloscope, we&#8217;ve found the real culprit &#8211; on the D- line [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.openchord.org/2010/05/our-apologies/</link>
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		<title>Street Fighter</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve been working on some odds and ends, but we just wanted to share a little video showing off the versatility of the OpenChord controller kit &#8211; We reprogrammed the V1 to show up as a DualShock 3 on the PS3, and here&#8217;s Alan playing a bit of Street Fighter 4, on the guitar: The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.openchord.org/2010/04/street-fighter/</link>
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		<title>Bad News, Good News</title>
		<description><![CDATA[First, the bad news &#8211; We&#8217;re not going to be able to implement Xbox 360 compatibility on our own.  Looking into it, the security the 360 uses is based on a pretty hardcore chip, and while that chip has been recently hacked, doing so involves using an electron microscope, and might only be valid for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.openchord.org/2010/04/bad-news-good-news/</link>
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		<title>Back in Spokane</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After a few weeks of being on the East Coast, I&#8217;m finally back in Spokane, ready to start doing more hardcore engineering (and taxes.)! Right now, our Xbox 360 is Red Ringed, but I&#8217;m fixing that tomorrow; however, things aren&#8217;t looking so hot for Xbox support right now &#8211; nobody it seems has been able [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.openchord.org/2010/04/back-in-spokane/</link>
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		<title>Firmware Update &#8211; Gap Chords</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One thing we noticed a lot at PAX was that it&#8217;s hard for people to hit those green/yellow, red/blue, and yellow/orange in-game chords (what we refer to as &#8220;Gap Chords&#8221;) when you&#8217;re in fret mode.  We saw a lot of people get kind of frustrated that when they held a barre chord or power chord, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.openchord.org/2010/04/firmware-update-gap-chords/</link>
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		<title>PAX East Setup</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Thanks again to everyone who came out to see us at PAX East!  It&#8217;s a little strange to not have to spend all day at PAX, but it&#8217;s also nice to get a chance to sleep!  We have gotten a lot of questions there about the setup we were using there at PAX, and we [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.openchord.org/2010/03/pax-east-setup/</link>
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