Posted by Kristian Golding on June 19, 2021
Here are some shots of building the printer. You can get it in kit form or pre-built with minimal assembly. Because I am a masochist, I elected to do the former. Total assembly took around 8 hours, I had to go in reverse for a bit because I had placed a stepper motor in the wrong location, but luckily they supplied gummy bears to go along with the build.
Posted by Kristian Golding on February 1, 2021
I tested the power supply yesterday and today connected it to the rest of the synthesizer. And wouldn’t you believe – things appear to be showing some signs of life! A couple of LEDs are not blinking – I would find it hilarious if I wired them up the wrong way – but VCO 1, the white noise generator, the, ADEG 1 and ADEG 2, and the LFO, are all putting out the correct waveforms. VCO 2 is doing something completely weird that is going to be “fun” to debug.
Posted by Kristian Golding on January 29, 2021
All the wiring for under the board is done, allowing it to be mounted and the wires as seen in the photo to be soldered to the board.
Posted by Kristian Golding on September 19, 2020
The main board is coming along, this is before I placed the remaining capacitors and IC sockets.
Here I’m matching transistors with an ATmega328-based component tester.
And then the placing the potentiometers, sockets, and switches on the front panel
