oh my bad my apologies and thank you and yeah i was thinking those. I got the arcade buttons and those mixed up
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Hi everyone, just a quick question with regards to the Cosmo modules. does anyone know if the modules will be sold for the forceable future? or if they are a one off run?
Kosmo, my bad, auto correct has had me again
Sam tends to restock them if they’re out of stock, except for some limited edition ones like the Fartbox.
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Im hoping for the vco’s to go back in stock soon, maybe the new filter he talked about too! :)))
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ik this is super old but how did you get this multi-board design to work? It looks like one KiCad project with multiple boards drawn in the PCB which is all well and good, but how did it work when you went to production at a fab house. I did a quick experiment with JLC and their system was pretty confused by multiple boards in one set of gerbers. Is there a way to export each board into gerbers individually from one Kicad project. Thanks!!
There is, unofficially.
Scripts allow you to pull individual boards out of a multi-board design, either by specifying corners of a rectangle containing the board (which is a bit of a hassle) or by attaching a special footprint to each board that allows you to designate which board you want (not that well documented but I figured it out). One gotcha is that with the latter method it extracts only items that fall entirely within the board’s edge cuts, so if for instance you have horizontal potentiometer footprints that overhang the edge it won’t work, or if you have a fill zone that’s larger than the board it won’t get extracted (which is how I ended up with a couple PCBs missing their ground planes once). So a bit of a kludge but it can be made to work. Before using that I used to just go into pcbnew, delete all but one board and export that, undo the delete, delete all but another board and export that, etc., and more than once I forgot to undo the final delete before quitting out.
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Yeah the method with the delete-undelete (or cut/paste) seems like the easiest, if far from the cleanest. I usually use source control on my kicad projects so hopefully the damage from forgetting to un-delete is limited 
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so I export them one by one -
Highlight and delete the others - plot then hit CTRL-Z to bring everything back and repeat. lol
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worth mentioning, I delete them in groups so I only have to “undo” once. lol
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Maybe I missed something, but what is the thickness of the front aluminum panels of kosmo modules?
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The thickness of Sam’s PCBs is 1.6mm. I’m not too sure about his DIY modules.
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I 3d print mine at 2mm but also add reinforcing ribs around the components.
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I’m going to start using some slightly different values. Hole sizes come from recommended clearances for the bushing sizes specified in the datasheets. Pad diameters are based on washer diameters as measured since the datasheets rarely specify that:
- Jack: 9.8 mm / 14 mm (vertical e.g. Switchcraft 110X series); 11.4 mm / 15.7 mm (horizontal e.g. Neutrik ST-NMJ6HCD2)
- Rotary switch: 9.8 mm / 15 mm
- Pot: 7.4 mm / 11 mm
- Toggle switch: 6.6 mm / 11 mm
- Trimmer pot: 2.5 mm
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I assume this has been tried before, cause there was a mention about ‘wiki’ something; I’m trying again if that’s the case. It would be great if anybody wants to check it out and suggest improvements, or maybe why it would fail the Wikipedia review process?
Anyway, go see what I’ve got so far.
Note, what you see below is their header - the wiki page is below that, so check it out 
And please comment!
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Hi! In case I wasn’t clear, this is not something I came up with, these are the specs from above… Your work my friends! I’m not trying to take any credit for this; just trying to get it out there so it’s not burried in the forum. Also, so maybe more people will join us in Kosmopolis 
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