Wheelchair Accessible FX Stompbox – A Remote Control
Motivation A friend of mine is a talented bass guitarist who happened to play in my band. He came across the TECH21 Sansamp, which is a nice and compact bass […]
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Output-Transformer-Less Tube Guitar Amplifier
Another tube amp project. I built this in Summer of 2011. I was passing by a garbage pile of electric devices and I found the wreck of a vintage tube […]
An EL84 tube guitar amplifier
Another old project (2010). Not much to tell here. Just showing some pictures. I got my hands on an old (OLD!) electrophoresis lab power supply. Really sturdy metal enclosure. Believe […]
Temperature controlled etching bath with magnetic stirrer
So, I built this a while back and I finally decided to show it to the world. It’s one of the few custom tools I built and that actually was […]
a quick and dirty fix for yakuake’s “open new tab in same directory” issue
I love yakuake. I simply can’t stand terminal windows being scattered around my desktops anymore. Yakuake (as delivered by the package managers of ubuntu-ish distributions and OpenSUSE) just has one […]
Brute Force Computation for Cheap Log Digital Potentiometers
Abstract This article covers the attempt to build a digital logarithmic potentiometer out of two linear potentiometers. The benefits of this concept are: Linear digital potentiometers can be easily procured […]
Touchpad as wireless (MIDI) expression controller
Motivation A friend of mine is an artist who does the technical realization for interactive sound sculptures projects and such. He also is a gifted bass player in several […]
