{"id":241,"date":"2008-05-27T16:54:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-27T20:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glacialcommunications.com\/news\/?p=241"},"modified":"2008-05-27T16:54:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-27T20:54:00","slug":"summer-of-synth-diy-week-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glacialcommunications.com\/news\/2008\/05\/summer-of-synth-diy-week-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer of Synth-DIY: week 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So far, I&#8217;ve made a pretty good start on the Sound Lab:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Entire board (sans connections to front panel and inter-board connections) is soldered. The PLUS kluges are crazy. Let me tell you that much. Pictures soon.<\/li>\n<li>I seem to be short a 33k resistor for the S&amp;H board. Curses! It&#8217;ll have to piggyback onto my next parts order.<\/li>\n<li>Got the glass out of the dead scanner I&#8217;m using as an enclosure.<\/li>\n<li>Got a sheet of acrylic for the front panel. Need to cut it to fit, and then drill lots of holes.<\/li>\n<li>Dumb idea? Run a <a href=\"http:\/\/thingm.com\/products\/blinkm.html\">BlinkM<\/a> on the inside with a cool pattern, leave  the paper on the inside  of the acrylic as a diffuser, AND HAVE THE AWESOMEST, TRIPPIEST COLOR-CHANGING SOUND LAB EVER BUILT? Maybe. I&#8217;d have to get a BlinkM, and then run a 5V rail out of the power supply. It may not have enough light output, too&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;ve made a couple of design decisions on the cigarbox modular:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The connection medium will actually be exposed screws &#8211; I have a large quantity of clip leads to use, and connecting the points to the circuit board can use lugs attached to the screws. Plus it&#8217;ll look really cool and dangerous.<\/li>\n<li>I want to try to only use conventionally available PCBs- nothing custom. Mostly things along the lines of the Radio Shack 276-159\/Electronix Express PB-12 size factor.<\/li>\n<li>Modules: Some kind of 40106-based\u00c2\u00a0 multi-oscillator, some logic-gate based &#8220;modulators&#8221;, a mixer somewhere at the end. Maybe a\u00c2\u00a0 simple SVF?<\/li>\n<li>I need to find some tiny L-brackets to attach the PCBs to the cigar box. My first search (at a big-box hardware store) was fruitless.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So far, I&#8217;ve made a pretty good start on the Sound Lab: Entire board (sans connections to front panel and inter-board connections) is soldered. The PLUS kluges are crazy. Let me tell you that much. Pictures soon. I seem to be short a 33k resistor for the S&amp;H board. Curses!&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.glacialcommunications.com\/news\/2008\/05\/summer-of-synth-diy-week-1\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glacialcommunications.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glacialcommunications.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glacialcommunications.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glacialcommunications.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glacialcommunications.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glacialcommunications.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glacialcommunications.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glacialcommunications.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glacialcommunications.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}