Summer of Synth-DIY: Week 2

Less progress than I would have hoped. Unfortunately work was rather busy this week (and weekend!)

What’s been done in the last week:

Sound Lab

  • Cut Acrylic front panel
  • sort out exactly what I need to finish (a 33k resistor, better trimmers, power supply stuff)

Arduino Sequencer V2:

  • Design Schematic
  • Desoldered VCC/GND connections from pots

“Big Baby 8” (My version of the Baby 10 sequencer):

  • More-or less sorted out how to do it
  • Developed a schematic (but I’ll post about that process later. Long story short: gschem on OS X==not fun)

SN-Voice:

  • Figured out the difference between parts it needs, and parts on hand
  • Started putting together BOM of what I need.
  • I should really order the PCB.

Mankato Filter (Since the SN-Voice doesn’t have a VCF, I’ll probably build one of these to go with it, unless anyone’s got a better idea for a VCF…):

  • Created a Mouser BOM, but it turns out those aren’t exportable and I’m probably not getting everything there anyway…which makes me wonder why I went through the whole process. I dunno. It was a learning experience, and the project manager is about the closest they come to a wishlist, I guess.

Cigar Box Modular:

  • Not much – anyone know where I can find some tiny L-brackets for mounting the PCBs into the box? All my online searching has stymied me.

In related news to all this – If you’re a Clevelander and interested in Synth-DIY-ish things, check out this ExBe post, and contact bbob if you wanna join up. I intend to.

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