Stickman393
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I'm going straight to hell.
Are You Breadboard Baking Yet?
- Thread starter BuddytheReow
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fig
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No bezel (crappy phone cam), thats a 10mm LED. I guess they just add more acrylic or whatever the clear material is, around the diode.
fig
Village Idiot
That's awesome!
fig
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Nice! I only have the 90º wire former. I saw some nice 'uns over at Micro-Mark.
I just received a Tayda shipment of breadboards, components, wire, terminals, widgets, and whatnots.
So I will be baking soon. Much like the first time cooking a big holiday dinner, I found some recipes then I went to the store and bought a bunch of ingredients. Now it’s time to make some smoke, burn some things, mismatch some things, make something disgusting, and maybe accidentally make something nice.
On a serious note, I read this entire test kitchen forum and appreciate those who have posted and contributed.
So I will be baking soon. Much like the first time cooking a big holiday dinner, I found some recipes then I went to the store and bought a bunch of ingredients. Now it’s time to make some smoke, burn some things, mismatch some things, make something disgusting, and maybe accidentally make something nice.
On a serious note, I read this entire test kitchen forum and appreciate those who have posted and contributed.
BuddytheReow
Breadboard Baker
When you’re ready to go check out beavis audio’s breadboard projects. They will help you get an understanding of schematic to breadboard. http://beavisaudio.com/beavisboard/projects/
spi
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This weekend I got motivated to breadboard. I chose the COT50, since it's a simple Electra distortion and something I've been meaning to build for years. First I had to remove the parts I had left in the breadboard so long ago I don't even recall what circuit it was anymore--some Devi Ever fuzz that I never ended up building. In the COT50 I auditioned a few different transistors and diodes, as well as the Briggs mods. I'll probably box it up soon.
spi
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Haha, of course. Just visible in the right side is the dangling power lead, which I unhooked every time I swapped parts. Although I did touch a component while it was plugged in and got a radio station as clear as day... one of the joys of breadboarding.Nice! Don't forget to power that upper rail
bowanderror
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Haven't seen this before, but it looks handy! How many rotations do you usually give it?
Bricksnbeatles
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lil buddy arrived today. Dry fitted the hardware.
Edit: Just ordered some 9mm potentiometer breadboard adapters from Madbean since I won’t be able to use fuzz size pots for this like I can with my regular Protoboard (bc that has the 45° screw terminals). Just need to decide which values make most sense to solder to the adapters (I got 3 sets of them, for 15 total)— probably don’t need more than two of any one value since I don’t think 3 pots would fit on here at once, and anything bigger I’ll use my full size Protoboard for anyway.
Edit: Just ordered some 9mm potentiometer breadboard adapters from Madbean since I won’t be able to use fuzz size pots for this like I can with my regular Protoboard (bc that has the 45° screw terminals). Just need to decide which values make most sense to solder to the adapters (I got 3 sets of them, for 15 total)— probably don’t need more than two of any one value since I don’t think 3 pots would fit on here at once, and anything bigger I’ll use my full size Protoboard for anyway.
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Mcknib
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Just grip it tight with your pliers then just a couple of blasts with your drill, I just press the drill button on and off and let it spin for a couple of seconds
mdc
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I made the mistake of having a coffee at 3:30pm yesterday OOPSIE and thus stayed up until 1:30am last night pfaffing about with this vaguely TBMKIV derived thing on the breadboard:
FET preamp —> Si darlington —> fuzz knob —> Ge/Si ce/cc-cascade
Still tweaking the resistor values on the last stage, but I'm pretty stoked on how it's coming along. I have a few of those enormous gapco enclosures that are pre-stamped for 3-knobs so I might add either a bias or input cap blend? We'll see I guess?
Anyway!
Happy holidays if you swing that way, have a peaceful weekend if you don't.
FET preamp —> Si darlington —> fuzz knob —> Ge/Si ce/cc-cascade
Still tweaking the resistor values on the last stage, but I'm pretty stoked on how it's coming along. I have a few of those enormous gapco enclosures that are pre-stamped for 3-knobs so I might add either a bias or input cap blend? We'll see I guess?
Anyway!
Happy holidays if you swing that way, have a peaceful weekend if you don't.
BuddytheReow
Breadboard Baker
Dude, the patience needed to tape up and label each resistor. Hats off to you, good sir!I made the mistake of having a coffee at 3:30pm yesterday OOPSIE and thus stayed up until 1:30am last night pfaffing about with this vaguely TBMKIV derived thing on the breadboard:
FET preamp —> Si darlington —> fuzz knob —> Ge/Si ce/cc-cascade
Still tweaking the resistor values on the last stage, but I'm pretty stoked on how it's coming along. I have a few of those enormous gapco enclosures that are pre-stamped for 3-knobs so I might add either a bias or input cap blend? We'll see I guess?
Anyway!
Happy holidays if you swing that way, have a peaceful weekend if you don't.
Elijah-Baley
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On my breadboard there's today a TBA820M amp, schematic from the datasheet. There are two kind of schematic: one with the voltage on the speaker and one with the ground on the speaker.
I tried the one with the voltage on the speaker.
It sounds, but I have to talk about a weird things. Usually circuit like overdrive, fuzz, etc, worked fine, but this with this I got a sound with a bit of compressed sputtering distortion. And I remember I got about the same thing when I tried with the LM386 Smokey Amp on breadboard, that once on veroboard worked normally.
Could the breadboard work bad with amp?
I tried the one with the voltage on the speaker.
It sounds, but I have to talk about a weird things. Usually circuit like overdrive, fuzz, etc, worked fine, but this with this I got a sound with a bit of compressed sputtering distortion. And I remember I got about the same thing when I tried with the LM386 Smokey Amp on breadboard, that once on veroboard worked normally.
Could the breadboard work bad with amp?
mdc
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I gave up on using the label maker pretty quickly, it was mostly just the side effect of being excited about owning a label maker.
The handwritten ones do save me a lot of time though - I just have a sheet of small label tags handy and if I need a resistor that isn't already in the bag of breadboard resistors I just stick a label on it.
bowanderror
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I did this for a while too, but it was soooo much work. You may have better luck printing "Cable Wrap" style labels rather than "Cable Flag" style ones.
I now keep a little resistor color code reference taped to my monitor so I can check values at a glance. You'd be surprised how quickly you start to recognize common values!
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