Toe Screamer

[EBK]

Not a finished pedal yet, but wanted to share nonetheless because I intend to finish it.  I mostly plan to waste everyone's bandwidth with yet another super long build thread for a crazy idea that will probably take years to complete (I think I have at least three of these loose ends; I've lost track).   





If you missed the first time(s) I teased up this idea, the spikes were a flea market find (100 of each size for $1), and the project name at this moment is Toe Screamer.  This is part of my effort to rehouse some stuff I built earlier in my building career so that I can enjoy some of my pedals that sound awesome but currently look less than awesome.  The circuit for this pedal is a tubescreamer with Landgraff mods. It was from a GGG kit. 

The Lego brick was mine, not stolen from my kids. 

I drilled all those holes by hand, which was not a fantastic choice.  I will very likely end up redoing it, spreading the spikes out a bit more and paying someone with CNC capabilities to make the holes. 

I have a lighting idea that would require another 12 holes, which would be between the stomp washer and the inner ring of spikes, lit from inside the box with a microcontroller-simulated flame flicker, possibly (probably) with light behavior being affected by the gain pot position (a dual gang pot would make this pretty easy).  I have no current plans to add smoke.   

[patrick398]

I love it. It seems a shame not to electrify the entire enclosure

[Marcos - Munky]

It seems a shame not to electrify the entire enclosure

+1 on that.

[vigilante397]

When i saw the title I assumed it would just be another TS mod. When I saw that you were the one that posted it I figured it would be something a little unconventional, and was expecting to see weird. You still managed to surprise me

Excited for another quality thread though

[italianguy63]

Eric.. I built a prototype tube screamer board.. and it did not work.  I have not gotten around to troubleshooting it yet.  It could just be something dumb.... When I figure it out, you are welcome to a PCB as a test-builder... MC

[EBK]

Eric.. I built a prototype tube screamer board.. and it did not work.  I have not gotten around to troubleshooting it yet.  It could just be something dumb.... When I figure it out, you are welcome to a PCB as a test-builder... MC

Thanks, Mark!
Although, I'm so buried in boards that need built that I might have to try building an enclosure out of boards to house a future project. 

[anotherjim]

The monks of the Shaolin Temple are waiting patiently for the chance to rock one of these. Due to fossil fuel limitation controls, they can't walk on hot coals any more.

[vigilante397]

I'm so buried in boards that need built that I might have to try building an enclosure out of boards to house a future project.

Oh man, I can't believe I never thought of that! I have loads of boards that I made unfixable mistakes on that aren't worth fixing but I can't bring myself to throw away. This would be perfect!

[amptramp]

Not a finished pedal yet, but wanted to share nonetheless because I intend to finish it.  I mostly plan to waste everyone's bandwidth with yet another super long build thread for a crazy idea that will probably take years to complete (I think I have at least three of these loose ends; I've lost track).   

I have a lighting idea that would require another 12 holes, which would be between the stomp washer and the inner ring of spikes, lit from inside the box with a microcontroller-simulated flame flicker, possibly (probably) with light behavior being affected by the gain pot position (a dual gang pot would make this pretty easy). I have no current plans to add smoke.   

That's not the way it works - none of us ever planned to let the smoke out.

[pinkjimiphoton]

Eric.. I built a prototype tube screamer board.. and it did not work.  I have not gotten around to troubleshooting it yet.  It could just be something dumb.... When I figure it out, you are welcome to a PCB as a test-builder... MC

Thanks, Mark!
Although, I'm so buried in boards that need built that I might have to try building an enclosure out of boards to house a future project. 

you are my hero <3 lol   

then goop the whole thing so it don't short out with clearcoat so it's




oooh!!

shiney!!!
 

[pinkjimiphoton]

i let the smoke out

[EBK]

I'm so buried in boards that need built that I might have to try building an enclosure out of boards to house a future project.

Oh man, I can't believe I never thought of that! I have loads of boards that I made unfixable mistakes on that aren't worth fixing but I can't bring myself to throw away. This would be perfect!

you are my hero <3 lol   

then goop the whole thing so it don't short out with clearcoat so it's




oooh!!

shiney!!!
 

I'm going to rely on one of you to make that real.  I can't be the only one seeking to expand the boundaries of possibility. 


We are the [stompbox]-makers.
  And we are the dreamers of dreams,
Wandering by lone sea-breakers,
  And sitting by desolate streams;
World-losers and world-forsakers,
  On whom the pale moon gleams;
Yet we are the movers and shakers
  Of the world forever, it seems.

[vigilante397]

I'm going to rely on one of you to make that real.

I am on it I have a big 1590BB project I just gave up on troubleshooting so I have about a dozen large, unusable boards.

[willienillie]

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No problem!

[EBK]

I think I'm going to buy one of these to play around with for my flame lighting.  It will draw a ton of current (relatively speaking), I'm sure, but could look pretty cool to compensate for that.   

  That is a neopixel array, by the way -- individually programmable RGB LEDs.

[duck_arse]

Irish wristwatch Irish wristwatch Irish wristwatch Irish wristwatch.

No problem!

you say potatoe, I say "is that the time? I have to go".

[willienillie]

^
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I like your nail polish, Eric.

[EBK]

^
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I like your nail polish, Eric.

I almost commented about that when I posted the pic.


I did end up ordering one of the 12-pixel rings.  I think I will try this guy's code first:

I'll be using an Arduino Pro Trinket, at least for prototyping and tweaking.

My current plan is to have a separate hole in the enclosure above each pixel.

The dimensions of the 12-pixel ring are:
Outer diameter: 36.8mm / 1.5"
Inner diameter: 23.3mm / 1"

[duck_arse]

Eric - do those spikes have any spanner-flats above panel, for tightening? spanner-flats? is that a thing?

[EBK]

Eric - do those spikes have any spanner-flats above panel, for tightening? spanner-flats? is that a thing?

No flats.  They are round at the base.  I'll probably add some thread-loc to the final build to keep things secured.

"Spanner" isn't a word in 'merican English (we can it a wrench for some reason), so I can't officially comment on whether "spanner-flat" is a real thing.