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But I have 20 boards I wanna order now.

Hopefully the plugin is in place before any kind of Black Friday sale... :D

Birding (if you get a decent camera) is a lot like a combination of Pokemon Go and hunting, but also with an artistic angle.

Placed my JLC order this morning...

It goes without saying that I love the cardinal, even if it's a baseball thing. It was only after making about 10 bird pedals that I thought back to this sketch and was like "oh yeah, I guess this is me now."

My process is to draw the images in Photoshop. That usually takes a few hours - it's a combination of tracing, hand-drawing with a Wacom tablet, adding gradients, positioning, getting text colors right, etc. My goal is to have smooth or straight lines that are easy to vectorize. I flatten that...

This is a report for the Circulator, based on the EQD Grand Orbiter. I saw this recommended on a few "favorites" lists here on the forum, and I wanted to build a phaser so it was an easy selection. This is one of my favorite pedals and I'd recommend the build to anyone. Inspiration I settled...

Paragon Mini into Chop Shop is my go-to overdrive tone right now. Sounds amazing; the only problem is that the Paragon alone suddenly sounds meh when you turn off the Chop Shop!

@Brett - here's what it looks like close up - it seems to meet the exclusion requirements, it's just hard to see in the zoomed out screenshot. Your broader point is correct, I could make better use of the space... I got tired of moving the larger blocks of components around every time I...

This is a report for the Cannon Fodder MkII, based on the Caroline Wave Cannon MkII. I built it because it seems to be a fairly popular and well-regarded distortion/fuzz pedal that I'd seen mentioned in a few places. Inspiration I was kinda struggling with this for a while. A lot of the...

Oh wow, I hadn't considered that. Mind blown! I suppose that guidance only applies for when lug 2 and only one of the other lugs are populated, since basically the only important thing is that the two traces should be connected somehow when the switch is flipped

Wow, this is some great feedback! @jessenator - You know, it didn't occur to me until you marked up the layout that it would be a lot easier to keep things aligned by drawing some helper lines in an unused layer in the editor itself! Good call, moved these caps a bit further from other...

Wondering if I can get some more feedback (just some basic feedback, doesn't need to be in-depth). These layouts aren't done (I need to add to polish a little and add labels, but the DRC passes). They're on the more complicated side for me. I've now done ~10 overdrives to various stages of...

Its pretty easy, especially for smaller circuits. It feels somewhere between a mildly pleasant chore (copying schematic) and a game (layout). I think between watching videos to learn KiCad and then trying a basic circuit it took me about 4 hours of time. Really helps that ordering 3 different...

@jwin615, @spi - Thanks for the outline and links. @Feral Feline - Wow, your repsonse is amazing, and very helpful! The Big Muff tone circuit is a great distillation of what I was looking for. I think I'll need to read your response a few times...

Well, I had my first batch of PCBs arrive yesterday: the pcb I'd posted before, my own footswitch daughterboards, and a board with the Dyl-Ei Fuzz Apprentice. I quickly threw together one of each, and put the Dyl-Ei in a box. Everything worked! And it all sounds good! Thanks @Brett, again, for...

I like #3, #1 and #2 are a little plain. The white knobs look better to me with this print. The white knobs in the box look a little like cassette tape.

I haven't been able to find a good explanation of why capacitors act only on certain frequencies. I'll read something like "change C3 to 22nf and you'll get more bass". Does it work the same for caps on the audio path and to ground (I feel like I've seen similar guidance for both)? Is it the...

@MichaelW's post convinced me to add it to my wishlist, and this only solidified that decision!

This is a report for the Abyss, based on EQD's The Depths. I saw this recommended in a few places and I've been going through a bunch of EQD pedals, and I hadn't built an optical vibrato. Inspiration With a name like "Abyss" or "The Depths" I wanted a bird that could go deep. Penguins are the...