{"id":367,"date":"2009-02-06T01:32:46","date_gmt":"2009-02-06T05:32:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glacialcommunications.com\/news\/?p=367"},"modified":"2009-02-06T01:33:50","modified_gmt":"2009-02-06T05:33:50","slug":"sdiy-progress-report-22009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glacialcommunications.com\/news\/2009\/02\/sdiy-progress-report-22009\/","title":{"rendered":"SDIY progress report &#8211; 2\/2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>SN-Voice: Primered the front panel (not sure how well that&#8217;s going to work. I&#8217;m using spray primer and it&#8217;s 17 degrees F outside. It may get a coat of white latex paint if it doesn&#8217;t). Figured out an easier way to do pcb-&gt;panel connections instead of making my own cable rigs. Still need tempco, but going to work around it at first (putting in headers, and just using a regular 2k resistor for now)<\/li>\n<li>MPS: Most of the way there. Still need a couple of caps (the polystyrene ones) and panel components.<\/li>\n<li>Tried to build Rene Schmitz&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uni-bonn.de\/~uzs159\/vco4069.html\">4069 VCO<\/a>. Thus far not successful. Not sure where the problem lies.<\/li>\n<li>The new rack chassis: Figured out the existing panels will need widening if they are to accomodate 1\/8&#8243; jacks. Given the material is some kind of reasonably study metal (steel? aluminum?), this could be a challenge)<\/li>\n<li>New thing: It&#8217;s a re-implementation of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.miniorgan.com\/lib\/view.php?miniorgan=31\">1970s\/1980s Remco Sound FX Machine<\/a>. The schematic is somewhat based on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.saratronics.com\/index.html\">Saratronics SARA-002<\/a>, but with some improvements (specifically: added a switch for one-off or constant operation, and fixed some things that looked weird in the schematic). Working great in prototype so far. Working on a fancy enclosure (ok, a cigar box, as usual, but it&#8217;s going to be painted up all fancy-like, so it&#8217;s fancy, dammit!)<\/li>\n<li>I must really like the SN76477 &#8211; in addition to the two projects using it above, I&#8217;m also planning to build a <a href=\"http:\/\/electro-music.com\/forum\/post-215596.html\">Thomas Henry SN76477 SuperController<\/a>. I may build a second Sound FX Machine box as well.<\/li>\n<li>Also trying to figure out a way to mount the power supply without electrocuting myself &#8211; I think it&#8217;s going to get its own enclosure, and hook into the cabinet(s) via XLR connectors.<\/li>\n<li>Even though I&#8217;m not a major Atari Punk Console fan (you get twice as much fun out of a CD4093), I went ahead and got a pack of<a href=\"http:\/\/www.getlofi.com\/?page_id=1395\"> GetLoFi&#8217;s APC 2.0 PCBs<\/a>. If nothing else I may make a couple of little kits for friends who want to get into SDIY.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;ve got some other PCBs enroute. Looking forward to getting them.<\/li>\n<li>Debating some Hi-Fi type projects (chipamp, maybe speakers). Maybe when some of this other stuff is actually done.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SN-Voice: Primered the front panel (not sure how well that&#8217;s going to work. I&#8217;m using spray primer and it&#8217;s 17 degrees F outside. It may get a coat of white latex paint if it doesn&#8217;t). Figured out an easier way to do pcb-&gt;panel connections instead of making my own cable&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.glacialcommunications.com\/news\/2009\/02\/sdiy-progress-report-22009\/\"> 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":[42,1,16],"tags":[37],"class_list":["post-367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electronics","category-general","category-synthesizers","tag-synthdiy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glacialcommunications.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367","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=367"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.glacialcommunications.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":372,"href":"https:\/\/www.glacialcommunications.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367\/revisions\/372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glacialcommunications.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glacialcommunications.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glacialcommunications.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}