Recent content by pricklyrobot

Dang! There’s a pot equivalent to ‘extension ring overdose’!! Who knew? 🤷‍♀️

If you boil the pots in a little salted water and get the legs al dente first, they’re much easier to maneuver! ;)

I do it all the time. Just chop the legs off a little bit back from where they 90. And use the little holes that are already there. * some pots the holes are a little tight to easily slide a wire in. In that case I use one ‘leg’ of a set of pointy tweezers to gently widen them.

+1 I’ve ordered from Tayda here and there over the years. They do sometimes have something I can’t find anywhere else, and the prices and quality have always been fine. But I find their interface slow and painful. Mouser is quick once you figure out which filters you actually need to fill in...

Yeah, this just solves a “max vs. optimal range” issue, it won’t do anything for a general lack of accuracy.

Assuming a regular multimeter is less accurate as you approach the extremes of its range, maybe checking your small caps in parallel with a bigger one (and then doing the requisite subtracting) would give a more reliable result? 🤷‍♀️

Could you also put another pot (either internal trim, or regular style mounted on the side if you want to re-tweak) in series with the treadle pot to fine tune the range? Some expression pedals have this.

Spongebob had a rough night in Tijuana! 😬

I’m picturing something with a potato…🤔

I’ve amassed a few meters over the years, the one I use most often these days for pedal stuff is this little pocket one: https://www.adafruit.com/product/850?srsltid=AfmBOoqCA8TS-j_eDuSK3YJRcBF0q-iTCo_UV7rvUuGhH8W_PytCCI83 Reads Capacitance and Hz, which you definitely may want once in a while...

The good thing about switches is they don’t require any electrical knowledge or theory to figure out. If you don’t already have one, get a multimeter with ‘continuity mode’, sit down with your switches, see what connects to what in which toggle position, make notes/diagrams. It may be an...

I like the DecoColor paint markers. I haven’t used them specifically for decorating enclosures, but I have used them on metal numerous times with good, durable results. Also, most other paint markers I’ve used over the years tend to dry/clog up if you don’t use them really regularly. The...

I made this contraption: https://forum.pedalpcb.com/threads/homemade-%E2%80%9Ctool%E2%80%9D-sanding-ironing-board.28042/ Initially for sanding, but it’s handy for drilling too. I’m hand drilling (no place in my small, garage-less house I could reasonably set up a drill press), but I’d...

This is something that hasn’t totally happened for me just from looking at regular schematics. I definitely prefer the Electrosmash style ones with the different circuit chunks marked out: Wish there was a big repository of those somewhere.

Yeah Chip Quik is magical! I’ve bought generic knock-off brands (Indium/Bismuth solder is what you’re looking for) off of EBay for a little less than genuine Chip Quik, and they worked fine. Especially useful if you need to get a many-legged IC off a board without killing it.