Last exchange is one for the Linguistics thread (re: attempting to translate western irony into culturally-mainland Chinese.)
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Useful article on making synth casing.
https://moroccodave.com/2017/06/07/diy-modular-synth-making-module-panels/
I think this project is simple enough for me and my friend to work on, just need to source the parts :-/
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probably fine to start but can’t hurt to go with a bigger breadboard. those caps and resistors won’t get you very far either, get a kit with a lot of different values or just buy the stuff you need for a particular project
look at a circuit youre interested in building first, you’ll buy everything cheaper than some kit and make something you actually want to make in the end
its like a recipe, you dont just go to the store and buy 5x of the most popular ingredients to make a meal
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a meter is a must have to try to figure out your inevitable fuckups, youll learn more too
and yeah i agree youre gonna have to buy parts at some point if you want to build anything specific. but having a good variety of spares is nice to make tweaks and play around with
yeah agreed and also invest a decent amount of your budget into a good soldering iron with adjustable temperature etc. If your tools are shit, your projects are gonna be shit too
seafoam blue weller or nothing
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Weller WES51
adjustable, easy to find new tips and simple af, i legit thought soldering was some lost art while using my radio shack constant watt monster when i was a kid haha, still use that thing to solder tac metal together once in a while for other larger projects, shit for circuits tho haha
(sorry to the Weller gods that my iron is in an unusable spot rn)
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I think it will be necessary to start with the very basics. I have to find a basic oscillator schematic, then I can duplicate it and play around with it.
EDIT: If anybody has a simple sine, square or triangle oscillator schematic that would be awesome.
I found some schematics from the pdf cyclopian posted, seem easy to build.
Going for the Sine wave generator. Just need to buy the parts and a breadboard, Yay!
My goal is to make this one in the future:
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Though I have a quick question, on the sine generator. The capacitors have .01 on them, is that the measurement?
yeah i hate when they leave them off but id assume microfarads (uF) based on values and the labeled ones
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Thought you might like to see this! 5x Embedded processors trigging audio as loops and pitched samples via MIDI from the Launchpad and the Moog as a controller : )
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