Hi there! What’s been on your mind? What have you done this week? Any fun plans next week?

  • pooberbee (any)
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    1 year ago

    I started building a new eurorack module, and I’m finding my SMD soldering skills are pretty rusty. Between work and spending time with my family, I don’t get much time to practice, and when I do I’m either sleepy or a bit jittery from caffeine. Still, I think I enjoy building and playing my rack enough to keep going with it, even if I mostly just plonk out a scale or twist a couple knobs when I get the chance.

    • dutchmartin@waveform.social
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      1 year ago

      Oh that’s cool! Are there any particular modules you are building currently? I’m building an entire rack of my own with a Thomas Henry 555 vco, soviet waveshaper, kassutronics ladder filter, meebilt ADSR and a VCA.

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        1 year ago

        Last year I basically dove straight in and built two nonlinearcircuits modules, an oscillator and a PLL/divider thing, and I’ve got kits for a filter and a phaser. Right now I’m building an MMI Attenumults. It’s not very complicated, but I wanted to get the hang of sourcing my own parts. Are yours all thru-hole kits? That seems like the way to go. I got drawn in by NLC’s designs and ended up having to buy an oscilloscope to troubleshoot my wonky SMD oscillator build.

        • dutchmartin@waveform.social
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          1 year ago

          My boards (I’m not buying kits, just ordering PCB’s from JLCPCB) are a mix of smd and through hole. I do not mind SMD that much, but I like it since storing spare parts is way easier as they take up less space. And for tools I just go to my local hackerspace, since there are some other eurorack diy enthusiasts over there.