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Now when that's settled, count me in. No fund raising from my side though, after all, we're in it for the free stuff :P

The campaign is about leading by example, not fundraising :P

Hehe.

I have now made a picture of the second revision of the vcf board available at the gallery. This has some minor layout changes and also a "cleaned up" silkscreen. I'm having serious trouble fitting it all in there, so if anyone would like to have a go at it, I'll send em the eagle files ;).

I'm super interested in these. Will definitely take 4 boards when you've got them. Can pre-pay if it helps w/ development costs, etc. Will stuff proto boards and test, too, if you want.

Thanks!

Any new news on the filter boards? My ssm's are taunting me :)

Get a proper snow mobile and do it boss style: http://www.break.com/index/snowmobile-mountain-slide-2054735 <- gotta see that vid!

yeah, snowmobile would be VERY handy these days! btw - my office is 25km away - cross country ski trip is SO out of the question ;). No - thank god for the internet - makes it possible to do at least some work from home! hehe.

btw, those pics in the article shows not nearly how bad it really is now - it has been snowing more or less very heavy for 20 hours now!

hehe :-D

Can't wait to see it in one of your next videos Hawkeye.

Thanks, man - but it will take some serious time... alone the soldering will be a nightmare - 2048 LEDs :) At least, there is J on my side down that dark road :)

hehehe

Here's a link for the listing. More available, from UK. I think this looks serious. http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/SSM2044-Voltage-Controlled-Four-Pole-Low-Pass-Filter-24dB-Octave-LPF-IC-/120791345713?pt=UK_BOI_Electrical_Components_Supplies_ET&hash=item1c1fb9aa31#ht_500wt_969

Btw, do not tell missus. :) She doesn't understand circuits :P

sounds cool, but unfortunatly, newhaven hasn't got my choice of color. Need it to fit with blue/black, and either yellow or green combine well with those... :). If there only were white character displays to get somewhere... Else I'll end up with a 20x4 lcd... I'll give myself a little bit more time now to find a suitable oled, but if not, I'll get a lcd off ebay.

Reichelt have some white OLED(s)! Search 'em :) But alas, no 20x4 in white from Electronic Assembly yet.

Tried searching for em at reichelt, 2x16 only for white ones it seems. too bad. But if no, I will buy a 2x16 LCD with white characters on black. And when I can get white ones - I'm sure they are comming, and if they are compatible - I'll just swap em. The enclosure module for the buttons and LCD is going to be one part seperated from the rest of the enclosure, so worst case, I will just have to make a new enclosure for the LCD if it doesn't fit... But of COURSE - Keep hitting me w...

Unfortunately that's more or less the entire living room/bedroom area so it's not all cave :( The synth gear sits in a corner.

hawk, u're doin it wrong man. Me and my wife has moved 2 times now, and the first room that get set up is the music room. Now I just gotta watch out and not get another kid while we live here in our current house, then - even I - have to be reasonable and give up the cave for kids room... so by the time we get another kid we will hopefully be moving into the house with my new cave. :)

btw, today all the wool is in place, and also the wall panels. Missing the ceiling and floor now.

for your controller, methinks you could well start off with a MIDIO128 V3 and upgrade to MIDIbox NG when its ready - btw the SEQ also integrates fine into a DAW environment, not trying to convince you or something ;-)

Hehe hawk, no convincing needed. I definetly want to build a seq, but that will probably come next after that again, or at the same time hehe :).

I have been playing around a bit now today with my piano (I have a digital piano in my studio) and I love good old piano with analog pads on the synth. I found out that I need a midi expression pedal to adjust cutoff on the filter. So that is definetly gonna be part of the next controller.

Yep, very true. Too bad I can't bring too much into norway... :P Guess that is different within EU.

Nowadays it is. In clean-cut Sweden at first the paternal politicians tried to whip us all into the old rations quotas. Screw that. And screw cheese tax ;) Tell u what, if I ever pop by I'll drive some small forest road and fill my car with Falukorv, beer and booze!

Hehe nice! Good thing border between norway and sweden aint like USA and Mexico :P

good times! I remember a certain game @ my c64 which easily left a broken joystick behind :D

winter games on the atari 800xl, as a kid and not understanding electronics, i built a mechanical joystick wiggler out of lego - only the joystick left/right microswitches were triggered and it went pretty fast :)

I remember having 5-6 broken joysticks for my C64 (always 2 working, though :) )

I couldn't get the Win7 sharing to work.. so I built myself a 6TB NAS server to share my files between my various machines

Yep, that's what waiting for me too. Maybe not 6GB, but maybe 4gb. But several other things are more pressing (for my wallet) than a NAS right now, but soon. I have a server, but it's outdated - hardware is old, so I was planning to use it for gateway instead now.

@techno: sure, nothing wrong with a fresh OS. hope you'll find a solution to that problem soon.

:) yeah, being 30 means nothing. just think of how long it took you to get from 20 to 30. and we all aim for being 100 and run the marathons we are used to, don't we? i plan to retire with 120 at the earliest :)

By the time I reach 120 I plan to start work again. I'm starting a new business then - heavenlySound :D

Hehe, my bro in law had his 50th birthday a couple of years ago. We made a song with the chorus being something like: Now you're 50 years, soon you'll be 60 years, in no time you're 70 years old. Then you'll be 80 years and then comes 90 years, and look how steady the stone stands... doesn't rhyme in english but u get the idea :P

Yeah, J is right. I would rather have a PC, and I have pre ordered the raspberry pi some time ago, and that will probably become the real media center when it is up and running. Meanwhile I'm pretty happy with the samsung all-share thingy ;).

Right now I'm trying to minimize the stuff I have under my TV, because the kid is too fond of remote controls and cables nowdays :P. But the PI can be attached behind the tv with dualsided tape :P hehe

I intend to get a Pi to replace my car stereo. I may end up using another as a home media player - if I can persuade it to run MythTV frontend.

...of overtime BEFORE the vacation, not afterwards. Then the workload won't pile up at all, and we all win! yay! Antix - that's why u got more mb6582s than me :P

LOL TB.

Unfortunately I work a lot but the money is less than I expect....no Virus for me this year :(

What's up everyone? I've been away for months, too, after a busy spring and summer of building. Still not quite ready to stafrt building again, but hopefully soon.. month or so.

btw. when we are talking old movies, you´ve gotta rewatch blade runner final cut in hd - awesome! :-)

dude, I actually never saw that movie (all of it). Oportunity never presented itself, but I thought of it many times, so nao I have to visit the .x264 online store :D hehe.

Hehe, yeah those cigs are nice. Just sucking the goodies through those long filters will give u all the lung capacity you need alone :D.

Dude, u have a bike, as in MC? My bro just bought a 900 cbr - think it's from the very late 90s. A really nice bike.

I wish I had a nice motorbike, but for now it's a MTB and a Kustom Kruiser.

Oh cool! those cruisers are cool looking. Candyred one with flames? :D. Man, I hope I get good wind conditions this week, it's aching in my hands to take the kite for a testflight! And not least - take me for a testflight hehe.

Uhm ... they have interesting pots and knobs for my 9090 and very affordable. ;)

Electrokit.se, but that's domestic for me :)

Cool.

News is that today the repair shop concluded that this didn't happen at their bench, therefore not responsible. bla bla bla. Now I'm dealing with the shop I bought the card from. I have written off the data as lost, and now treat it like a normal guarantee case... So I guess that's it. Too expensive for me to get a pro to retreive any data. Not end of world, but still a taste of the sour apple...

I kinda get it too, if they refuse that they had anything to do with it breaking, what can one do..? It's my word against their word, and for all they know I could have been placing a faulty card in there to make em pay for getting my data. But I guess I will never ever trust anyone with my data - frankly - I should've known better.

yeah, and your word are ''light'' against their... i'm qfraid the only thing they will purpose to you is a simply replacement of the card... and I know how much the ''pro'' company charges to recover data on damaged storage (i lost a full disk of personnal data last year...)

Good luck !

Buon Natale

True true hawkeye. Turns out having a kid means a lot more presents in the trunk of the car at the end of the day. But no midiboxes. I saw this electronics kit fro kids though in the shop here the other day, but I looked at it and thought, nah - this is really cheap stuff... It's like buying a kid a plastic hammer - why not just get the kid a small real hammer. much better. :)

Merry Xmas !!

agreed, only the early mornings are a pain :) but ultra-strong coffee to the rescue :)

Coffee no worky - only the thought of getting off work and solder again works :P

it's hard when you work at home. Procrastination with soldering iron =)

Huh? What's outrageous? :-)

bondage in the workshop :)

hehe :). At least, I have the right tools there... Sky's the limit :D

here's the result:

Nice board!

Thanks :)

Reading the manual s cheating! :)

5: rtfm

hehe bf.

yes, the old ones were so rusty, it was fun! The only problem was to get the brake cylinder back, as i could not bleed it (bleeder rusted, too), once again brute force (and some tools) helped :)

yep, and here's the secret - the bleeder aint there to help get the piston back either ;) - it is only there to bleed air out of the system in case u change pipes or in some other way have to disconnect pipes. The correct way to do is to use some tools and brute force :D hehe.

hehehe :-D

Im thinking about having a 19" panel made.. just have the controls over to one side.. the dead space behind the other part of the panel would be where the aouts and filters get mounted. I'm wanting everything to fit in a rack so I can transport it w/out too much effort...

I have also thought of doing a rackmount, but I scrapped it as it won't fit my gig needs very good - I need the controls in front of me together with the master keyboard, and that doesn't work too good with a rackmount. But I might consider doing a rack mount for the FM when I build that.

Yay! Julian F makes kick-ass high quality panels :) Have fun!