(The case, not the unit. They do sell the original as a kit but I’m really not in the mood.)
Better angle for the wood:
Ignore the kid. That wasn’t even “Mail Day” material.
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Looks nice! But what is the unit? And tell me more about the wood (stain, type, etc.)
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That’s red oak with a cherry polyurethane coating. I built it so it could be horizontal or vertical. The unit is a Deckard’s Dream Mk 1, Rev 2. I heard their supply chain On the Mk2 was interrupted through next year maybe so I stress/panic bought the last of the Mk1s that I could find.
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Did you build that ahead of the unit’s arrival? Or are you just that fast?
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That was about 18 hours from hardware store to desk. It the unit came yesterday I was just too busy fretting and freaking out about the voice cards to post it until today.
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Pretty fast, then…
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so the urethane is still a bit sticky LOL . looks great , kinda like how they used to it in the bad old days .
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The silver threw me off. I had only seen Deckard’s Dream in black, I think, but I was like “that looks like a CS-80”. I suppose I could have zoomed in:
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a panel for my Wave Shaper (thx @Doolang for stripboard)
i add a vactrol for CV in with Attenuator pot and 3 positions select rotary switch, for select witch pot is affected by the CV signal
(a 7 positions would have been better but I didn’t have one, it’s already good to have 3 possible choices for CV)
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Meanwhile this is me.
“This fast prototyping thing will really help me to get things done. Look how quickly I can run up a patch cable.”
Two days later: “Look, here’s this fancier patch cable I made.”
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Not sure I’d call it classy 
; it’s still built with rather crude building blocks, but I’m quite happy with the “design language”, even if it has some structural weaknesses when the panels get bigger.
(as I’ve probably mentioned before, I’m very much into iterating on what can be done inside artificial constraints; the “you can do anything!” approach usually just leads to me doing nothing).
I probably won’t post PCBs, but almost all 3D printed bits are public; see here for the basic blocks and here for a lot of custom blocks (including some of mine). The first link has Fusion 360 files for the basic blocks and the connectors, so creating your own custom ones can be as easy as punching a hole in one of the base geometries (or you could just print one and use a drill 
)
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Cool! Looks good! Interested to see what it sounds like with cv!
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It’s not a competition, @Bitnik. Unless it is and nobody told me. Are there prizes? I’d be even more insufferable if I won a prize for woodwork…
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Well, I mean it’s not a great shot. Picking this out was probably about like Deckard using the voice commands to find the reflection of Zora. “Track right 30. Enhance…”
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I probably came across as a little bitter, which wasn’t intended. Ironically I got more work done when my job as a carer was recently interrupted by our Covid-19 scare. The past couple of days, since we got the negative test result, have been exhausting and I’ve only had enough energy to post here (which I’ve done a lot of.) There is a little progress, but most of it is in the refinement of ideas by experimentation and thought.
It’s always great to see the immense talents being wielded by some members.
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i wait for a CD4046, so not tested yet
i put the schem that i add for the CV IN here :
I hope everything will work
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No worries. That doesn’t read as funny to me now as it did earlier. Seriously though-I like seeing your prototyping project. Sometimes the woodwork doesn’t feel as “cool” as the electronics projects I see here so I compensate like a dude driving a monster truck in city traffic.
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Your work is awe-inspiring. When people look at the stunningly clean soldering jobs and tidy designs @fredrik produces, that’s how your carpentry looks to me.
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Oh, why thank you! I’ll take a comparison to @fredrik as the highest of compliments any day!
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