#modular DIY

[tenshunnoise]

weapons of mass creation.

[hitori-no-ginga]

The colorful snake 🐍

Finally finished, so happy !

[synths-and-sensibility]

This photo is weirdly intimate, so i wanted to share

[carsthatnevermadeitetc]

Toyota Camatte57s Sport Concept, 2013. A "build it yourself" prototype with 57 detachable panels that could be finished in a wide variety of colours and designs. It was inspired by the "fun generations of mums, dads and kids having fun making things together." Powered by an electric motor, there was seating for 3 and a central diving position

[rubbish-audio]

Moog 3p modular, Synclavier II, Yamaha CS 80, Minimoog, Korg MS-20 and various other instruments at the Deutsches museum

[technician-the]

It's bandcamp Friday!

 Most of my music is downloadable for free, but I still think today is a good day to check it out!

[salemsoundwaves]

How it's been going. Nobody really saw the stuff I put here anyway but it's my semi-annual checkup on this place.

Since my last post:

Not in my previous band, started a new one with some friends

Released two albums and streamed a bunch

Built a website that I'm bad at updating

On Mastodon and BlueSky

Built the Spynthesizer (pictured, named by friend of a friend Laurel)

Got a Risograph printer (pictured)

[knotty-et-al]

Two weeks to-do-list hanger

[too lazy to write description rn, communicating is exhausting atm, but i want to share nevertheless]

[deliandiver]

Friday night build

[synthtv]

EPIC Music Synth DESIGN & BUILD Lesson

[tenshunnoise]

This one continues with the long form composition mixtape format & uses the same setup as the previous projects but Incorporates the Entanglement Space by Destiny+.

The Drum and synth sounds get processed into Entanglement Space for some DSP psychedelic effects.

Tracks 5 - 8 have some field recordings from a trip to Japan a while back.

Each composition was recorded live into Reaper

[synths-and-sensibility]

Business in the front

Dead bugs in the back

[rubbish-audio]

DIY Banana modular at the Science University of Pécs

[taperwolf]

Very quick modular accessory build:

I found a stack of these little solar-charging USB power banks for really cheap at a thrift store a while ago.

Unfortunately, after I opened up the couple I bought, it turns out they're not very useful as is. Not only do they take a whole day in the sun to charge up, but the battery is pretty anemic and won't charge modern cell phones, and the connectors need special dongles to connect to anything.

So I decided to try turning one into a Eurorack CV input device. Remove a couple of screws on the bottom, and the innards slide out; wire cutters separate the solar cell from the board. (I'm sort of watching to see how long it takes for the status LED, now on all the time because the solar cell is missing, to drain the battery down.)

The cell, when tested, puts out a voltage between 0 and just about 5V. Ambient room lighting is just under 1V, and higher levels require very bright lights, but that's as expected. (I should mount some lamps around my case.)

I used a reamer to widen the circular hole on the top to take a 3.5mm jack, and cut away a little of the plastic frame so the jack could lie flat. Soldered the cell onto the jack — positive to tip and negative to sleeve — and reassembled.

So far I've used it as a CV source; I need to do more testing to see if it'll work as a gate or trigger source, though I expect it will if the light source is bright enough.

I've previously used a larger bare cell that I just soldered a plug onto — that one gives higher levels from less light but this one's more sturdy, more compact, and has the little wrist strap. I'll probably convert the other one too.

[praxidyke]

first modules completed!

honestly it's a miracle that the oscillators work because it's a fuckin mess back there