technobreath

Termoplastic or fiberglass?

fiberglass :). Gelcoated that is. CS is special, it's gonna be coated with hexcel texalium cloth (which looks like blue carbon fiber cloth) covered by epoxy.

thanks for the documentation, will be also interesting for model plane builders :)

Yes, there is actually... It's two steps. Step one: Get lots of money from a guy who u barely met, step two: Go to webshop of ur taste and order the laptop. ;). that's the short version :).

Can you elaborate on how step one was done? :D

Hehe. Yes I can, but I'm not sure it fits the profile of this site, so u got to ask me privately, and then maybe if I know u well enough, u can haz the entire story :P. lol

What is GAS?

Gear/Guitar Acquisition Syndrome.

Now everything is clear.

Hehe. Yeah, i know - jet engine is the right word - and u can heat a cold cup of coffie if u put it next to the hot-air-vent. My laptop is a new dell i7 - was about the most powerfull I could get from Dell when I got it some months ago. But Inventor is the first thing I have seen that makes it go all hot like that hehe. I was trying to learn Inventor as I have background in Solid Edge - a slightly different workflow, but very nice. I also drawing up some gm5 cases hehe - but I can't submi...

submit stuff to my "own" competition hehe, so I guess it was just for the sake of learning the software. More drawing tonight for sure!

i working on catia V5 (it also my all day job...) but also worked on Spaceclaim (Just the most creative software for industry and really light software) and doing rendering on keyshot (the easy way ! ) I will try to do some render tonight ! Bye

Hehe, this kind of snow is extremely rare in my area - I live by the coast of south-west, and here we're lucky to get 15cm or so, and even luckier if it doesn't rain away the same afternoon. So this is extraordinary. The former snow record for this area was set in 1961. And yesterday that record was broken in a massive way. Now I wait for the blizzard to wear off, and the rain to start sometime later tomorrow! :)

Don't hog all the snow Norway! Sweden needs moar for an even fluffier X-mas :D

I'll gladly ship some to your front yard! My whole property is full of white shit! And I'm sure it will all rain into some dirty slurry by the end of the weekend, and the piles will not rain / melt away for months. I told missus, when the blizzard / snow fall is over I'm getting a big tractor down here and transport away all of the shit. Don't need a swamp in my garden the next 6 months! So - yeah - u can have some! A lot! :D

Yeah. Hoth freeze over again. storm in 4 days.

Its nice and warm here... thinking of taking a bath in the lakes... Nah, just kidding :)

True grit! :D

I guess Twin-X swung by and worked his magic again.

The little tablet like it too

need to adapt to a few things, but in general, it is very nice! (was nice, before, too :))

Hehe. I soldered most of the mb6582 in the livingroom. So I know the answer to that - there's a reason why all my electronics gear and studio gear ended up 2nd floor :P. So I guess it's with her as with most women - they "want both" :D

Yeah, that is a known problem - you have an inspiration moment, you can be sure the lady calls for attention - she won´t call when you have no ideas :)

inspiration moment?

My wife needs my help exactly at that time

LOL

Hehe

Yarr!

Thanks for the tip. I'll give that one a try. I used to be all into viritual stuff, but midibox opened my eyes :D. It's something about spending time in this enviorment - it gets to you :P

yes, me prefers hardware, too, but when it is unaffordable (ob-x) and an emulation is that good, listen without watching and try to tell which is the vst and which is the original :)

Hehe, I haven't got enough experience with oberheim to tell the difference in a blind test. But critic listening: There are minor differences that I hear - sometimes - but not in any way does the vsti sound bad. Worst case, only a little bit different, but that is a completely other thing than bad sounding.

I uploaded a couple of pics for you to see ;). Not the biggest studio room, but it's all I can afford to reserve for my stuff for the time being :P

you have lotsa space for moar synths :) lucky you :)

hehe. Well, I have the two SID synths comming around, and possibly a FM too in the not so distant future. Then I probably need to buy another smallish keyboard controller too :P

hehe, let´s hope she does not read this :)

Don't incite the rebellion :D

Don't wake the mob huh? :).

Wow, didn't realize you could get touch in that size! That's why I use the 12" screen... It's got the wacom pressure sensitive pen and touch. (it's not dedicated to music.. just my general laptop) I think it's silly to purchase a computer w/out touch, these days.

nice one, it will be great for battlefield, too :)

awwwww, u just gave me withdrawls.. Battlefiled 1942 was the only game I ever really got in to!

very cool! can recommend the purchase of a standalone sd audio recorder for gig recording, they are getting cheaper every day and are more reliable than crashy laptop sounddrivers :)

Yups! Get a dedicated audio recorder or a Nagra if you want to flash.

hehe, yes, computer interfaces has it's glitches and pops, no doubt about that! We might have to look into something like that later on. We have had a playing break for a long time while people build houses and raise babies :P. Now we're almost back, with a couple of new members. So it's still rusty - like in dirt brown colored rust! :P

I recently bought one from Voti:

http://www.voti.nl/shop/catalog.html It's the Wisp648 kit for 32,- euro's. It's a kit with usb but no target PIC socket but lose end cables. Succes

Guess i got lucky, i picked up a used Pickit2 on ebay awhile back.

I have an USB programmer that can do 452 but not 4685. I could send it to you if you didn't find an alternative allready. I built myself a Brenner 8 so I don't need it any more.

...gonna be nice to get some knowledge on that too. I just wish I could plug the probe in the back of my head and learn Jijitsu, but I guess that's not how things work hehe. Also working on some dmx->pwm(led and halogen) stuff. Interesting.

for me only a couple of 2SC1583 :)

I'm impressed by ebay sellers - emails about "item dispatched" during christmas. It's almost as I wish they took a couple of days off - almost :P

Try not to rush it. It is much harder to find and correct any errors than to double check everything during building.

Nopes, rushing isn't a good idea :). I just soldered a pic socket the the wrong way... not the biggest misstake, but certainly enough to slow down even more!

I soldered some resistor arrays the wrong way on my MB6582, that's worse.

You etch at home? or doubleside?

Irony!

Oh, your bankstick project gave me the idea! It was just a training project for me. Never really intended for release. Your bankstick looks awesome!

+1 :)

My computers complain when I mix up the Lion stick and the Win7 stick. Fascinating luxury problem :)

Rocking on SSD on my Mac (Crucial M4) and, yes indeed, it's amazing.

Bizarre but fun! You should build something to keep you from music making :p

I need a shack! Had a neighbour text me about the noise and it wasn't even loud. I hate living in a flat.....

Hehe. Some neighbours are worse than others. I don't mind a little life in my neighbourhood. And so does my neighbours. I often play loud music (el. guitar or making dance music) with windows open hehe. Gotta harden the neighbours a bit :D hehe.

Naiss!

Blue cloth is gonna be a while it seems :). This takes some time to finish :).

Ahh, more pics to come in a couple of moments :) Case model almost complete. Due to be finished tomorrow!

Thanks! I am also interested in the final result :) Hope it continues to look good ;)

Looks really nice this!

thanks swede ;)

midibox or throwing knifes? :D

I predict a mb6582 on my table in 2026 :P

Hmm, the good things take time.

LPC1769, 82c54 timers, AINSER, pots, encoders, LEDs. And moar.

mah gurl also haz volume spray, ok that was a really bad one *wanders off* :-)

Grrls and Brazilian wax FTW! *Quietly takes off to commit seppuku* :p

Yeah! All the Old Korg Logos and stickers is sanded off the case. Now I'm gonna paint it, get some new sticker on it, and there's the brand new expression pedal :D

Nice.. I've been thinking I need the same thing! I don't have enough motivation to exercise on my own.

great progress :)

thanks :) My motivation is really skyhigh, but it's easy in weak moments to again start fooling myself, so that's why I chose to organize it that way. :).