Recent content by finebyfine

There is, but the administrative costs of removing de minimis have been projected to be more than it would bring in - although the estimates I’ve seen are based on the 34% rate. But the obvious reason it’s being removed is for the chilling effect it’ll have on Chinese direct-to-consumer...

This is maybe the most politically tame thread on the entirety of the internet. We're literally discussing price increases from 2 of DIY pedals most dominant suppliers due to executive orders. No one has really thrown barbs, and it's obvious a lot of people are going out of their way not to.

With our turnouts, winners of US elections are only voted for by like 30% of the voting age eligible population.

I’ve stopped buying ICs from Tayda. LCSC has plenty of cheap options of industry standard op amps made by various chinese manufacturers but I implicitly trust them more because they aren’t pretending to be the original manufacturer. I’ve had no issues with them whatsoever. I’ve bought various...

This is a little thing to spread the legs of TO-92 transistors that I end up using all the time. https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5446312

Missed this reply somehow my bad but yup! I have an insane amount of 2.5mm and 7.5mm pitch 100nf ceramic caps on hand and want to use some of them up

Your regulator is laid out backwards as you suspected. The ST data sheets are so counterintuitive and I’ve made the same mistake before and still triple check when using them. Not only is the TO-92 oriented in the way opposite of what we usually see, it’s also upside down. I imagine that the...

I prefer lead free because I’m a big idiot and compulsively touch with my beard and touch my face even when soldering. I wouldn’t last long with leaded.

Check out LMR-100, it’s basically solid RG174 with an additional foil shield so easier to work with than a double braid shield. Never tried it myself but seems to fit the bill

I’ve never found it in consumer quantities - I forget if I found it in bulk - but I’ve spent many hours looking. Following this thread with cautious optimism!

Tindie might have some resources

Hoof tip all day every day. For years I only used a BC 2mm tip and it can do 99% of soldering jobs IMHO

Circuit board reverse engineering is a big industry with lots of water well treaded. I’m sure AI shit is being worked into it aspects of it but it’s an old enough industry to have existed without it. Most Chinese pedal manufacturers have full fledged R&D teams that use existing pedal designs as...

Looks like UV printing on a separate faceplate to me. As much as I love Tayda’s service, it kind of sells short the capabilities of the technology. Not complaining at the price though. Edit: just noticed the next. Gonna change my guess to laser engraved and then printed. Really curious to...

Working on an AD633 modulator with a raspberry pi pico controlled AD9833 DDS signal generator for the modulation. This is a rough draft bench top PCB for making sure everything works right and determining what features are useful to have in a pedal. If the phase control ends up being useless I...