Actual progress!<\/p>\n
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).<\/p>\n
I then decided to tackle the front panel. EPIC FAIL<\/a>. 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!<\/p>\n On Sunday, I went and got a chunk of hardboard. Much better<\/a> – though not see-through.<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n Also ordered a bunch more parts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 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…. Continue reading
![EPIC FAIL<\/a>. 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!<\/p>\nOn Sunday, I went and got a chunk of hardboard. Much better<\/a> – though not see-through.<\/p>\nOn 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.<\/p>\nAlso ordered a bunch more parts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"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…. Continue reading → <\/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":[42,16],"tags":[37],"class_list":["post-257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electronics","category-synthesizers","tag-synthdiy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glacialcommunications.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257","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=257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glacialcommunications.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glacialcommunications.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glacialcommunications.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glacialcommunications.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"http:\/\/www.glacialcommunications.com\/gallery\/v\/random\/DSCF0539.JPG.html\"){kind=link}