Kardashev Type II is a good name but it’s a bit of a mouthful. Kardashev format sounds great to me.
My format is inspired by Kosmo but it’s diverged a lot (international paper size A5 as standard panel size with A4 for double width panels, possibility of banana jacks instead of big jacks.) For now I’m calling it A5.
How about the name “Foolscap”? Then you get a few more millimeters jack room
Farabide,
I mean a common name. For examples names for modulars though the Roman alphabet could Alyssa, Blossom, Crystal, Diedre, Erika, and though to Zigi.
-Fumu / Esopus
Nobody remembers foolscap. It’ll probably end up as Bitnik format.
Legion - it is a wall of voices after all.
Bitnik,
I’m not planning any Kosmo modules with the Kardashev brand. My brand of Kosmo modules has been more or less decided based on a species of original character I’m developing. The module brand reveal will happen in the future.
-Fumu / Esopus
Since I’ve been a dumdum on this thread saying format when it threw a few I’ll take it as a good moment to tell a brief tale.
About me I love the analog gear when I could play with it but rarely did I own some. I had one of the worst TB-303 clones and the Matrix modules by Oberheim which the 1000 was sold but the 6R is still here. I found I Dream Of Wires Hardcore Edition which made me a fan of wiring guitar pedals and synthesizer keyboards into modulars and also a fan of people who port schematics to their own formats.
Fast forward
Now I was in an internet community where someone mentioned the Kardashev scale. It’s a measure how advanced a civilization is by how their technology changed them and their environment. There is a scientifically flawed but popular idea that a solar system reported to be erratically dimming is being used as an energy source by a matrix of lifeforms surrounding it. It sounds like silicon based lifeforms to me and I don’t believe it if it’s so implausible but I’m enamoured to the tale. I watched Sam talk about what the link connector is supposed to do. My mind blurred the two ideas together and what do you know? I want a silicon based organism to raise from an oscillator to a full wall system. That led me to learning as much as I could down the rabbithole. I’m taking notes of d42kn355, analogoutput and CTorp towards having my own Kosmo brand modules. The brand will have a logo with some face or partial body of an original character species I’m developing simultaneously as the builder of the modular. The species and brand was mostly chosen and will have its reveal at some point. My modular will have some persona name which should be common enough to keep it vaguely human. I hope to keep a portion of what I do with all of the brand open source as want it to be available to people regardless of income.
-Fumu / Esopus
I get you. A symbiotic project of form, function and brand. Makes me think of this
Klaatu barada nikto.
Setting your open container of transistors on the edge of your desk and then knocking it to the floor with your elbow…
got a cheapo pair of them…
Nailed it. 1/2 is overdone anyway.
This is the second time I’ve “nailed” this board haha. It seems the divisions after 1/2 have shifted down into its spot. (1/4 became 1/2, 1/8 became 1/4, etc) So at the end of the day I’ve lost the 1/32 and have a dead circuit in the way
Were you using a shift register?
It’s a 4024–binary counter with a 4069 hex inverter. Fonik design:
creates cool Sample and Hold x Noise Module… doesnt check first if BF245A’s are OBSOLETE… lol
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The 2n5457 is extremely close (I’m not certain but they may have been intended as replacements for each other) and that’s what I used in a stereo build I made.
And per Mouser, the 2n5457 is… obsolete.
