Realised I haven't been playing my first guitar much lately, due to a) weight [thinline is so comfortable!] b) fret buzz and intonation woes.
Let's try and rehab it as a doom machine. That would ultimately mean new pickups but it's a waste of money if the thing isn't playable first.
Have been thinking for a while about some CMOS-based counting/logic modules for my #eurorack #diy #synth ; need to present high impedance to +/-12V continuous input and feed high-impedance 0-5V logic. After a lot of permutations, I think this design will be cheap, compact and power-efficient? The goofy part is that the comparator runs off the -12V and +5V rails!
Weekend project! #diy #mechanicalkeyboards
This is a Ferris Sweep with some small tweaks, mounted on a couple of camera tilt adaptors.
My first custom PCB, with help from a colleague. Good practice for more #synthdiy?
I've noticed a strange effect while migrating to increasingly small and ergonomic keyboards (Full-size -> 12×5 -> 12x4 -> 12x3 + 6); the more time spent in the home row region, the more I feel disrupted by annoying stretches/moves. I used to hate ctrl and backspace, then avoided stretching for numbers, now shift is gone and I'm looking suspiciously at the letter P... There must have been a lot of floating before even while "touch typing".
RIP #PiPico , the first of hopefully not too many #microcontrollers to see 5V at a reset pin while I was fumbling around. 💥. You were a good chip that never made it to a finished #SynthDIY project, but did help me learn how to do audio-rate timer callbacks.
I have spares, but maybe next time a proper reset switch will get wired up...