16nx, and the value of giving work away

In September this year, I released a new version of the open source 16-fader MIDI controller I maintain - 16nx . This was a complete redesign of the hardware of the device, and as a result, also a completely new firmware. Redesigning the device was in one sense, a necessity. 16n - the original faderbank - was designed around the Teensy 3.2 , a microcontroller development board that had effectively…