Ring in the new

Bartender! A round of drinks on the house, if you please! Yes, yes, I know I’m the only one here. Start pouring. I have, ladies and gentlemen — okay, bartender and dog — this very day succeeded in building a Eurorack module with surface mount parts, unassisted! It says RING on it, and it’s a […]

Sample and no longer on hold

Sometimes things don’t go so well… Also uncompleted on my workbench was the PMFoundations sample and hold module. This was my first surface mount project aside from the little SMD tutorial kit, and last spring things were going kind of okay with the build, though a lot of resistors ended up at a distinct angle […]

Five orders

When we last saw our hero he was struggling to source parts for an NLC timbre! module. Aside from the PCB and panel and power cable, nearly all the parts could come from my stash or from Tayda, with two exceptions. Tayda doesn’t have the J112 JFET, and one possibly usable substitute they do have […]