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Desoldering tip – FLUX.

November 10, 2020January 13, 2021 by keith

At some point, we’re all going to have to remove a soldered component. For processors with fine pitch and lots of pins, hot air and Kapton tape is the best plan. For through hole passives,…

DIY tips Eurorack SMD Synth DIY

Blue Lantern Basics – Peaks Clone with CV

November 10, 2020November 30, 2020 by keith

Built three of these Peaks clones with boards/panels from JLCPCB – two with standard firmware, and one with Tim Church’s “Dead man’s catch” firmware. This firmware doesn’t work well with the latest MI Peaks pcb…

DIY tips Eurorack SMD Synth DIY

Flashing Mutable Instruments Branches

November 10, 2020November 30, 2020 by keith

Built a couple of Branches, MI’s random “coin toss” module. Very simple, straightforward build with no issues -it’s just a handful of 0603 components and a not particularly fine pitch MCU that’s easy to drag…

DIY tips Eurorack Synth DIY Through hole Uncategorized

Updating Division 6 Business Card sequencer firmware to V2

July 3, 2020November 30, 2020 by Keith Gentry

This is available as a PCB and Panel from Division 6. It’s a useful little Eurorack sketchpad, and the recently released V2 firmware adds a bunch of new features. When I built the module, I…

DIY tips Effects Eurorack Synth DIY Through hole

AD633 Ring modulator

June 20, 2020November 30, 2020 by Keith Gentry

A while back I built an AD633 ring mod guitar pedal from Mad Bean Pedals (Freekout) which sounds great, so I had a look around for a Eurorack version and came across this simple schematic…

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Unpacking 0603/0805 etc passives from cut strips

June 20, 2020November 10, 2020 by Keith Gentry

If you do any SMD synth DIY work, you’re going to have to unpack tiny components from cut strips. In doing so, you’re also going to experience pinging them across the room by mistake, never…

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