Meanwhile, Gate grinder ground:
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Sneaky!
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What’s the other faceplate over there in the Eurorack case that isn’t built yet? Elements and ?
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Well those certainly look familiar! Haha… You’re such a copycat. Always picking up the same modules as me 
The 0-Coast is my #1 piece of equipment I’m after right now. I check Reverb daily but I always seem to miss when one gets listed. They sell the same day. I’d like the 0-CNTRL as well, but it’s a slot or two down the list.
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@Maxhirez i’m into vinyl a lot (again) and bought this recently in a 2nd hand. The Man played live in the ZKM but i missed it.
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Never posted any of my other maildays… But let’s change that.
Ah the relief to have a decent iron! This would have saved me so much trouble and time if I had it a year ago…
A dremel… How else am I going to install an lcd-display? Or an sd card slot… Or… or… Yeah… I need to finish polishing those door handles. They’re been waiting for about 5 years.
Some storage. So I’ll find resistors quicker.
2 accelator sensors. Let’s make a cv-controlled baseball bat! To smash things musically.
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You know, don’t you, that you can upload an image file here? You can just drag and drop it into a message, then the image shows up inline here instead of a link one has to follow to Google Drive to see what you’re talking about.
Anyway, nice tools!
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Well… it’s a habit. So didn’t even think about it. Editing for convenience.
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A euroscope. I completely built it and it didnt work lol.
I have more boards and such, gonna try again.
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You can’t have too many potentiometers.
These are pictured on the old Lenovo 11e Chromebook we bought for my wife a few months ago. It didn’t work out so we got her a ThinkPad x61. So I’ve now taken ownership of the surplus hardware and installed Gallium OS, a Linux variant designed specifically to run well on Chromebooks. Neve is wondering what I’m going to do next, and she hopes it involves food.
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This is a piezo pickup I ordered on AliExpress on March 22. ePacket shipping, estimated delivery time, 28 days. Allegedly it shipped March 25 and left China on April 4 after which the tracking site showed no update for over a month. On May 1 I filed a dispute and about May 10 I got a refund for non delivery. Almost simultaneously there was a tracking update. Today it showed up.
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The Chromebook is very rugged, not bad for £60. I get the feeling I could throw it at the wall, pick it up and carry on typing. It still has the name and motto of an American school district on the top surface. Platte County. Tradition. Pride. Vision. This Chromebook also has the ThinkPad logo, but it’s not really part of the ThinkPad lineage.
My wife just didn’t get on with the keyboard, and even though she’s used to writing in Google Docs she found the experience uncomfortable and confusing on the Chromebook to. She’s used the ThinkPad x61 series in the past and so we bought one for just £90. That’s a very nicely built ThinkPad, despite the advanced age of the design.
Gallium OS is a very usable Linux distribution based on xubuntu but with lots of the annoying nonsense removed. I’m used to an even less cluttered experience on OpenBSD and I’ll be aiming for that level of simplicity, but this is a pretty good start. My other laptop is running Windows and will stay that way so I can run music software, which isn’t so well supported on Linux.
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Oh man… remember when it was brownish-gray and orange packaging? I blame RadioShack for my synth addiction. When I was a wee bugger and my mom would take me to the shopping mall, she’d let me run off to the RS and I’d stand there at the Moogalistic and make what the woman who worked there called “…just the most horrible sounds…” on that thing. Hearing a machine squeal and scream like a robotic chiropractic patient under the control of my fingers turns out to have been either formative or portentous.
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Of course I wasn’t just there for that, but I can’t remember whether the original lure was the ICs and LEDs and the Mystery box I bought that ended up having a huge microprocessor chip I couldn’t use in it, or the colorful sound machine now all these years later.
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Thinkpads are great, even old ones. They may not look like much, but the docks are wonderful, and the build quality is pretty nice.
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We have a couple of docks (“Ultrabase”) for the x61 series. X61s was our standard family laptop a few years ago, we had three of those at any one time. I aim to cannibalise some of our defunct ones to expand the capabilities of my wife’s machine.
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Mini knobs, Worng Bufftest PCB/panel, a couple of trim pots, hex nuts for mini jacks, and weird mini jacks from SynthCube:
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Analog Ordnance Mail Day Round 2!!!
The first set of Supporter kits showed up today!!
These were sent out mid-March from Australia, and let’s just say, I’ve been very eager for these to arrive lol.
PE Machine (Triple OSC noise Drone)
Shapable LFO (Desktop module)
Through-Hole Ripples x2!
And some awesome extras!! (x2 “girl” 1u Panels, a cool post card and a little note from Blake!)
This was well worth the wait and I can’t wait for Shipping to be back to some sense of normalcy lol.
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While I was reading up on opams, all of a sudden the mail man brought the long awaited midihub. This is much much more than a standard midi interface. More info here: https://blokas.io/midihub/
This sort of was supposed to be a kickstarter project, but the makers are in Lithuania and are excluded from kickstarter, so I ordered it directly from their website.
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Now that’s some hard core retro. A sampler with a CGA monitor output! Sound On Sound’s original 1986 review is online.
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