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Here's another one I've been working on I bought this and the Special Sacue almost a year ago. I completed the Sauce a few months ago but I wasn't feeling this one at the time so I put it off. Inspiration finally striked (strook?) and I ended up with this enclosure. When I was building it...

It depends on the brightness of the light bulb and the sensitivity of the LDR's, and how they interact with each other. The reflective box preserves the available light so the LDR's can react to it more easily, but depending on the spec of the LDR, this may not be what you want. You could try to...

Oh wait you're asking a different question than the one I answered! You're seeing the strip being lighter in shade than the surrounding enclosure because it is very slightly opaque compared to the rest of the enclosure which has no film on it. A clear coat may disguise this or may not. I'd bet...

You could try to put a couple clear coats on, and then lightly sand the edges of the film strip so they don't stick up higher than the surrounding surface, then do another couple coats of clear once the surface is level. What catches your eye is light reflecting off sudden changes in elevation...

Mouser lists the tariff amount of each item and has such a wide selection it's worth the time it takes to scroll thru until you find a part that doesn't have tariff, even if the sale price is slightly higher. Also pay attention to the qty prices as it's often cheaper to buy 10 of something than 4

Yeah it's annoying that there isn't a one stop shop place for parts. Add to that the likelihood to forget certain parts or accidentally order the wrong spec and you'll be paying for shipping again. What I do is build up the board with what I have in stock and then make a list of what I need to...

Those dummy knob inserts are a good idea. What I do currently is put the board together including pots, install it with knobs, place tape underneath the knobs to form my margins, and take it all back apart like an idiot. So you write a word down on another pedal and that's how you know the...

I think I see. It looks like you have an articulating arm attached to your table that you attach a plate to locate the lower edge of the stencil? And then you can move it and set it up for the different rows of knobs/switches? When I freehand my lettering it's quite difficult as the marker...

I'm thinking of purchasing one of these sets from ebay. I do handwritten labels as well and I'd like for them to be a bit more repeatable. What kind of fixture are you using to hold the pedal in place while the letter transfer set does its thing?

Here's my Levitation build. I've had this PCB for almost two years and it's finally boxed up! I made a Spirit Echo (or whatever its called) as one of my first pedals. This circuit is meant to be an evolution of that idea with more controls. I like that it has the short/long toggle switch, and...

Today I thought "wouldn't it be nice to just design a layout for my knobs and stuff on a computer program and send it to a CNC so I can change layouts around as I wish rather than wasting time on templates, or even worse, spending what seems like an hour drilling out each enclosure checking each...

On the LMS board, across the top IJ is Input jack, the lead coming from the input I is In, which goes to the IN on the PPCB board, the one on the far left V+ is just a positive voltage source, which is usually the same as SW on the PPCB board G is ground O is Out from the PPCB board OJ goes to...

Exactly, four points of contact per pin instead of 2

Take it apart all the way and soak it in Evaporust for 24 hours, then rinse it with water. Repeat if it doesn't take all the rust off. Then pour the Evaporust back in its bucket as its reusable. You can find this product at places like Harbor freight and home depot

I just went to the art store and bought a few tubes of Liquitex acrylic paint. I spent some time learning about color theory to figure out what shades might work well with each other. Every color leans toward another and that's how you can tell whether they will blend nicely. For example there...

I use the machined ones and have never had that issue. I've seen lots of people with IC connectivity problems using the other type of socket.

I always socket IC's now, after having to remove too many of them. In my case I'm trying to preserve both the chip and the board so the socket makes that 100% easier

I'm in the northeast part of the United States. We get 6 months of freezing temps and then 5 months of hot humidity with two weeks of nice weather on each side. I wish we had a store like that, but everything is big box these days. Yup they are acrylics in various colors brushed onto each...

This year I've been doing mainly outdoor projects - making a new workbench and storage setup in the garage, car projects, cutting up a drum kit. Today I needed to clean up out there so I could make room for phase 2 of the new storage setup, but I took one step outside and about faced right back...

yeah its easy - just pretend they are two separate pedals, but instead of wiring up the audio jacks that would go between them, just run a wire from the OUT of one footswitch to the IN of the other. Wire the 9v plug to both boards by twisting the two pos wires coming from each board together...