I wasnt able to find the pots anywhere in Australia. I have bought from Thonk before for other modules so I new they had them.
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Some of the more esoteric pot options seem to only be available from Thonk. Where else would you find a dual gang 9mm 250K? I’m all ears…
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Or even a dual gang 9mm 100k. I went looking for them recently and, literally, I could not find a seller for them other than Thonk. Not even Mouser carries them.
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This, in case you wanted to know, is how you end up placing two Thonk orders on Friday and one on Tuesday…
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dude. me and @CTorp were searching and searching for those 9mm dual gangs.
Only Thonk.
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Well, I am glad I can get them from the best supplier without international postage or being stung for customs and import duty.
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Hi @Vampyre as you’re in Oz can I suggest you check out the youtuber eevblog. His channel often covers who and where to source parts for electronics down under and has thrown the odd discount out there as well.
Head up though, I do tend to watch on mute with subtitles. Though I have worked many times in Sydney and Melbourne his “hoy peech ayksent” grates my head after a while… superb component tutorials though. Enjoy
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I got some dual gang 9mm pots from Wish eventually. Only took 4 months to arrive!
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Hi @Farabide yes I watch Dave’s channel. His voice is a bit high pitched. I enjoy his attitude and humour. He is so switched on and knowledgeable. I have one of his T-Shirts here.
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Ok I got the MegaDrone all up and running. Video -->> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1oAwoQHiyU
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Tip: if you put the YouTube link on it’s own line, it will show embedded in the post.
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dam ok I really have to get at least one of these , it sounds to cool .
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I’ve been wondering if this 10 drone controlled by mosfet (or Nosferatu as my spell check keeps insisting) is viable on stripboard. I love the sound I just don’t have the space for a huge panel. Has anyone tried?
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As I understand it the main reason for Sam’s choosing the MOSFET voltage control was to keep things low power and relatively cheap even when multiplied by 1000. For a ten drone module alone, you can pursue other solutions that would not have worked well when scaled up to 1000. Vactrols, for instance, might (or might not) be an easier approach at this scale.
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On a slightly skewed angle, here’s how you produce whole arrays of sightly different voices in the musical composition language SuperCollider. You get Megadrone-like effects free with the language. The only limitation is the speed and memory of your computer.
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yes it is a space sucking vampire but … I’ll put it in a separate stand alone coffin .
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In Soviet Russia, Megadrone puts you in coffin!
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and we have some evil drones that will do that to 
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Just ordered some tiny weeny pots and some big mosfets (midgets the spell check says now) for a stripboard experiment that may end up a freeform dead bug affair.
Anyone know a good fritzing guide that isn’t in German? When I learned German it was to sing opera. Few pots or mosfets in Bach
Edit: is there an smd or smaller version than TO220 for the P16NF06?
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I only see TO220 packages in the datasheet: https://www.st.com/resource/en/datasheet/cd00002501.pdf
Not sure if you’d find something with the same power ratings in a SMD…but almost certainly don’t need those kind of power ratings for this anyway. I have a couple SMD IRLML6402TRPBF MOSFETS here for another project and they’re TINY. (SOT-23 package!) Only rated 20v 3.7a but should still be sufficient here I’d think.
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