Oh I like those. It does depend on the application though. Big knobs and larger clearance can give better precision.
Or does anybody remember those old pulley-driven tuning capacitors on radio sets? A linear cursor track would be incorporated into the tuning control. The pulley system enabled a quite small knob to be used to control a really gorgeous big air-separated variable capacitor.
Somewhat related, Brits who are planning to buy things from EU and EU citizens who are planning to buy things from the UK shouldn’t wait too long:
(not sure what Captain Kirk is doing in that preview, the linked tweet has an image)
That’s a little corner of 2020 hell that we British (and EU-based companies that rely on free trade with Britain) have all to ourselves. A huge self-inflicted running sore.
Well, that’s disastrous. I mean, $20 shipping for five or so boards, not a problem, but for one 2 by 10 cm board? Nice way to put your small businesses out of business, Australia.
(but in the US, SynthCube has the Sloth Chaos PCB in stock for $9, with shipping to my address for $7.19.)
I only read the article summary at first, but it turns out Captain Kirk does appear in the actual article, which also makes clear that this applies to all overseas transactions (the motivation is brexit, though).
Yes, the EU already has reciprocal free trade agreements with many external markets and we’ll no longer be part of those agreements unless somebody has an epiphany or a time machine or something.
lmao - I didnt even think to order it from anywhere other than from NLC lol.
Thonk carries a few of the NLC modules, so does 3u-shop in Germany.
Please don’t get me wrong, I LOVE BIG KNOBS and i can not lie (Sir-Mix-A-Lot-ish) 
. I also find Eurorack a bit fiddly and Kosmo a bit bulky, for me I think something in between would be just right . But I wouldn’t do myself any good, I think to build my own format. I have to think carefully about which format I will build next, the boards are already there.
Oh crap, I actually wanted to order 3.5mm jacks from Thonk on November 1st. And I live in Germany …
Thomas,
If you do just call it The Goldilocks Format.
-Fumu / Esopus
If it come so it would be the thingy majiggy aka Dingsbums Format 
Finished soldering on my first tree modules, still waiting on slow posted 1/4 box sockets to complete the next last of my initial four modules. Today is testing and debugging day for the first 3.
I also mostly completed a covfefe from non linear circuits whilst waiting for a bus board to come from rich (post from the us is slow, domestic was a week). Now I have to steal a couple of smd resistors from some old electronics
And the magic fireworks. Whoopsies, I really should have doubled checked polarity before firing it up
Been there, done that, scorched the T-shirt.
Looks like a big cap, was it loud?
Scared the piss out of me!
WOW ! This is insane !! Maybe you would like to build your next bus boards yourself, here is a layout from me.
The stripboard layout is a little wider than the finished boards in the photos so that you can attach them properly.
Greetings THOGRE
At any rate I have a completed and tested vco, adsr and filter! Yay! Tomorrow will be knobs, tightening, mounting and tuning.
And thanks @theogre for the kind offer. You should make a thread of your strip board layouts so there’s a single place for them all!
