Pictures!

[bluebunny]

Thanks! I'm a vegetarian though, so I'll just pretend that it's a tofu-weenie  

Don't worry.  Not much meat in a British banger...

[duck_arse]

freppo, you must be about ready to tackle that other thread .....

[smurfedelic smurfberry]

I have just look through this thread from the beginning.. not joking. It took med two weeks lol
Very inspiring stuff! So many talented people. Makes you wanna try harder with your own builds.

Here are a few of mine that came out decent enough


Check out my building blog at http://www.parasitstudio.se for more pics, videos and soundclips

Cheers
/ Fredrik

Hejsan Fredrik och välkommen!

Nice, an Noise Ensemble, and so stylish!  I have had it in my plans forever to breadboard, and try out the noise bomb revisions i found in the noise ensemble thread in this forum.

I has blog too

[artemijs]

Hi there,

tell me please, how did you do that type of labeling?

Ed

With label maker.
https://www.google.fi/search?q=label+maker&es_sm=93&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=WFt0U-TmJeny7AbgjoGYCw&ved=0CAgQ_AUoAQ&biw=1366&bih=653#q=dymo+1540&tbm=isch&imgdii=_

[Freppo]

I have just look through this thread from the beginning.. not joking. It took med two weeks lol
Very inspiring stuff! So many talented people. Makes you wanna try harder with your own builds.

Here are a few of mine that came out decent enough


Check out my building blog at http://www.parasitstudio.se for more pics, videos and soundclips

Cheers
/ Fredrik

Hejsan Fredrik och välkommen!

Nice, an Noise Ensemble, and so stylish!  I have had it in my plans forever to breadboard, and try out the noise bomb revisions i found in the noise ensemble thread in this forum.

I has blog too

Thanks! I breadboarded the Noise Ensemble and played around with it.. but decided I liked the original version the best.
I love you blog, many cool wacky stuff! You say you're done with LM567, but have you built the Logan 5? 

cheers
/ Freppo

[kwijibo]

Little handy bench tool i'm working on in testing:

Power Monitor

it's plugged between the power supply and the powered device, reads supply voltage, current consumption, power and shows it on a small OLED display. In addition you can set a current threshold (Ialarm), if your device draws more than that, it will beep. And blink (working on it). The current drawn by the circuit is often a very reliable indicator if there is something wrong.
Technically it is an INA219B high side current sensor + PIC24 + cheap 128x64 I2C OLED display from ebay. I designed the PCB to be more like a simple PIC24F16K101 dev board. There are pin headers for all comms (UART,SPI,I2C, software I2C for the display). The SPI header is also compatible with nokia 5110 display.
I'm still tweaking the software, adding more secondary features, like detection if the supply is plugged not in the right  jack, some blinking etc.
I really like these small OLED displays, the have such a great contrast even in strong light conditions (bench!).
The INA219 has a cool feature of averaging the taken measurements (up to 128 samples), which makes the readout quite stable.
I managed to calibrate the chip to be quite precise, here on the pic below: compared against Fluke87V:

 

Are the 5 digit readouts actually trustworthy or just for show?

[garcho]

tell me please, how did you do that type of labeling?

I'm getting old...

[deadastronaut]

^ ha ha, yes WE are....

[Mika]

[Will.mendil]

My first attempt to a proper finish pedal. Thanks to bravos audio. Here's Trotsky. I made for y brother's birthday



I am still struggling with lacquer.

I am not going to show you inside this it is a mess but is works great.

[kaycee]

Nothing crazy from me. Here's an NPN Tonebender MkII with Russian Mπ38a transistors and an external bias roller knob.



Close up of the roller knob. Just a cupcake knob that I cut the top off and painted black.

Oh! Thats such a neat idea, brilliant

[wildebelor]

Hey Mika,

How do you get your wire bends so neat and straight?

[seadi123]

My first attempt to a proper finish pedal. Thanks to bravos audio. Here's Trotsky. I made for y brother's birthday



I am still struggling with lacquer.
I am not going to show you inside this it is a mess but is works great.

It looks great . Is that a 1590b ? How did you do the graphics ?

[Will.mendil]

Yep it is. The buttons and bigger than normal. It is simple decal. But I noted two things first although you choose plains colour only black seems to be completely opaque. The other colours are transparent. Hence the. Yellow of Trotsky does not really show. And second I am rubbish with lacquer. It might not be clear on the picture but I need some serious training in order to get proper result. Training and time.

[free electron]

Are the 5 digit readouts actually trustworthy or just for show?

The current measurement resolution is 50uA, which giving the range of 1A gives useable 5 digits in theory. In practice, after checking it against the 87V in hi-res more (4.5 digits) it's one digit less. Which is still OK for such a simple device. I will probably build a 2 or 3 such modules, each scaled for different current ranges, one for ultra low power stuff <10mA, the other for higher currents.
The bus voltage resolution is 4mV, power: 1mW
I have reformatted and organized the results displaying functions and the readout looks like this right now:



It beeps and flashes the measured current value if it's larger that the Ial value (switched off on the pic = pot set to max).

[darron]

Preamp box to split Rickenbacker pickups to two channels.

[seadi123]

Yep it is. The buttons and bigger than normal. It is simple decal. But I noted two things first although you choose plains colour only black seems to be completely opaque. The other colours are transparent. Hence the. Yellow of Trotsky does not really show. And second I am rubbish with lacquer. It might not be clear on the picture but I need some serious training in order to get proper result. Training and time.

The buttons make it look so small (good thing) . I dont think the lacquer looks bad . It looks aged and beat ut

[deafbutpicky]

@darron :

do you hear the sound of jaws droppin' ?

[darron]

@darron :

do you hear the sound of jaws droppin' ?

ha! thanks.

my friend has a "rick-e-split" plastic box to do this passively. hopefully this beefs his rick up a little and fixes up the ground loop issues. he pretty much described every aspect of it to me to when i emailed him the photos yesterday he was thrilled.

[peterg]

New label for an old pedal....