The scale is working again and I have this nice harness of weirdness dangling on my desk!

(CC: @noisio because of the awesome uMixa)

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Planning to have a chill evening repearing this old kitchen scale and soldering jacks to these cheap piezoelectric discs.
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Building a Turbokit replica for a GEM S2 - Davide Bucci

Diode Ladder Low-Pass Filter Demo

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now who could this be

#synthdiy #eurorack #kicad

New online tool! Got tired of calculating pot bias by hand 😅

https://gnd.buzz/tools/pot-bias

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CMOS Synth

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Spent a bit of time at a local guitar pedal & synth expo, mostly for the synth part. I was surprised how much of the synth examples were "here's my version of Teenage Engineering's OP-Z" or other various digital synths-in-a-box. Kinda disappointing, really. Barely any eurorack, and nobody selling DIY kits!

4ms was there, and their racks were cool enough, but they were promoting their MetaModule, which is basically a Pi running an entire VCV Rack install embedded in a eurorack module. Seriously, you can call up any virtual module you want and wire up everything virtually. At that point, why have a real rack?

PDX Synth Library was there, and had some neat rack builds. One was a skiff made from a section of PVC conduit, with the lid + handle also serving as the stand... Seems like something that would be very easy with a handful of 3d-printed inserts.

But yeah, not really much else for the #synthdiy hobbyist.

Trying to avoid charge pumps for a negative rail means constantly tripping on diode drops and paying 10x for R2R opamps.

Not sure why I decided to "die" (go mad and/or broke) on that hill.

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