Hey @noisio, I bought a kit from you at #37c3. These synths you made are genuinely so fucking cool and I had a blast building them (and now playing around with them)

Thank you so much for going through the stress and programming one more microcontroller for my LFO/EG even though you were super busy helping others get their stuff to work. I really appreciate it <3

I didnt quite finish my ATBase at congress but now (at 6am) I can exstatically say I got it to work!

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@noisio Its still a bit janky because I didnt have a DC power jack anywhere at home so I just cut apart an old usb C cable I made and soldered the two power wires to the battery pads you put on there.

The usb cable itself I wired through the DC jack hole (after removing the jack) which unfortunately didnt work at first.

I had to bridge two of the dc jack pads which I did with that lovely green wire and voilà! A PERFECTLY WORKING ATBASE THAT SOUNDS SO FUCKING COOL.

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@Nici Hey, nice hack! I am glad that it's been working, but a bit surprised about. Actually you'll need more than 7V for the analog part and as well as input for the 5V regulator.
How much provides your USB-C charger? Do you have a meter to measure it? I'am curious about...
USB-C Power Delivery can give you up to 20V, but for this you'll need a small extra circuitry.
I've planned to change all the kits for USB-C in future, so you're ahead of the times :D
@noisio Thats interesting. I considered wiring up two 3.7v LiPo batteries in series (7.4v) in order to provide the energy, but decided against that because I first looked up the attiny85 specsheet which that stated the maximum voltage it can handle was 5.5V. I didnt want to risk it so I went with 5v, somehow missing all indicators stating that anything between 7v-20v was okay 😅

@noisio The usb cable I used was a Type A to Type C cable. I primarily build mechanical keyboards and decided a while ago to get into making the cables myself and that was one of my first attempts that didnt turn out too great. Perfect for reusing :)

I cut off the type C part and exposed the wires there, The other type A side I plugged into my lab bench power supply that provided the ATBase with 5v at 2 amps (I checked with my multimeter, 4.99v)

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>USB-C Power Delivery can give you up to 20V, but for this you'll need a small extra circuitry.

Uff, tell me about it. You dont want to know how much time I spent in order to actually somewhat understand how usb c pd works.

usb c for all future kits sounds bloody awesome!