I’ve just recently finished building a Casper Electronics’ Drone Lab v2.  I decided to only buy the PCB and source the parts myself and now it is time to work on an enclosure.  I think I’d like to make it from some type of wood but haven’t been able to decide exactly how I want [...]

I bought a Drone Lab v2.0 PCB from Casper Electronics and sourced my own parts from Mouser as well as a few visits to my own parts bins.  Over my Thanksgiving break from work, I assembled and tested the unit.  Since I’m a geek with access to an impressive collection of video and audio equipment, [...]

Unsped, the creator of the Aduinome Shield, posted on the Monome forum that he had a few spares from a previous Group Buy that I missed.  I immediately fired off a message offering to buy one.  He collected names and I made the list!  I sent him my payment late last night and the shield [...]

Seems like all of the other geeky blogs online are jumping on the Arduinome bandwagon, so I might as well.  Just kidding.  I’ve been eyeing up the Monome since it first came out.  I was even on one of the first waiting lists for the Monome 40h, but when my turn came around I didn’t [...]

So, I’ve been trying to build a Polywhatsit effects processor from the December 2001 issue of EPE Magazine. I ordered the PCB’s from the magazine’s US website, sourced all of the parts (even the weird one), bought a new USB PIC programmer board on eBay, and started looking at unique housings. Flash forward two weeks: [...]

Well, most of the parts for the Polywhatsit are a breeze to source with the exception of one: the 8-position BCD rotary switch. The originally specified part is a weird one. I’ve only found one supplier who lists the exact part and they are in the UK. If anyone is curious, here is a link [...]

I was browsing through some old copies of EPE Magazine and came across a project from December 2001 called the PIC Polywhatsit. It is a PIC-based effects processor that offers some interesting sound effects such as Pitch Multiplying and Reverse Tracking. EPE still has the circuit boards (one for analog and one for digital) available [...]

TonePad started taking orders for a new effects project based on the FV-1 chip from Spin Semiconductor. The project, cleverly named “Reverb Digital,” allows the use of the FV-1 reverb DSP chip with guitars. The chip seems pretty cool, with 3 built-in ADC inputs designed to read pots for realtime adjustment of parameters, integrated stereo [...]