Monthly Archives: July 2008

Summer of Synth-DIY: week 7

  By glacial23 | 7/7/2008 - 12:31 pm | electronics, synthesizers Leave a comment

Actual progress!

I finished soldering the last few components onto the Sound Lab PCBs (the two 100 ohm trimmers, and the 33k resistor on the S&H PCB).

I then decided to tackle the front panel. EPIC FAIL. A reminder of why front panels of almost any type are a PITA. Maybe I’ll try again with Lexan instead of acrylic, but I’ll need a drill press, and that will have to wait a while. I want this thing done!

On Sunday, I went and got a chunk of hardboard. Much better – though not see-through.

On Saturday after the EPIC FAIL and some required stewing about it, I did do a teeny bit of work on the Arduino Sequencer, though I think I’ll need some thinner gauge wire to make serious progress, since I want to chain the ground and 5V busses.

Also ordered a bunch more parts.

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Press The Button Podcast for July 2, 2008

  By site admin | 7/2/2008 - 3:00 am | Contributors, Press The Button Leave a comment

First hour was sort of a noisy DJ-type set – it turns out that if you leave Negativland’s first album running underneath the mix, it has interesting interplay with the songs.

Second hour featured some PTB material from 2004 – bits of episodes 349 and 352 that I happened to find on a CD-RW while cleaning up our “junk room” at home earlier this week.