Bring out yer Diptrace

Further to hand-soldering...

I did that a couple years ago while building a boost for a friend.
Kept my eyes on the prize and reached over with peripheral vision and grabbed the soldering iron like the purple-shirted lady...
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Unlike her, however, I didn't manage to get the iron over to what I was working on.


SHO did hurt.


Lurking mode re-engaged, back to your regular-scheduled Diptrace-trip flip fantasia — Biddy bibby bop...
 
Robert said:
Mine was designed for using the PCB pin version of the rotary but I've just made an alternate that should fit the solder lugs... Or, you could probably clip the eyelets off each pin.

I have one of the switches on the way to verify.
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yeah, clipping the eyelets seems like it would work fine— the ‘legs’ of the eyelets are pretty long, so even after clipping they’d be plenty long enough to get thru a board.
 
Bricksnbeatles said:
yeah, clipping the eyelets seems like it would work fine— the ‘legs’ of the eyelets are pretty long, so even after clipping they’d be plenty long enough to get thru a board.
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Yep, I think so. Tayda only has the 1P12T with solder lugs. Mouser as the version with PCB pins but the shaft is a lot longer.
 
I was thinking of revising my ancient variable high pass filter/one band parametric EQ board that I've used in several amp and preamp builds. And what do you know, I had already mostly done that last year and promptly forgot all about it. The old one was all through-hole and measured about 4.5 by 2.5 inches. This one is 2.5" x 1.6" and offers many more opamp options since SOIC-8 opamps are pretty much the thing these days. One notable feature is that it doesn't need to use any dual log or antilog pots, unlike the vast majority of HPFs and PEQs.

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And then I'm wrapping up a DC-DC converter daughter board so I can use the new board in pedal builds without needing a non standard power supply. 9V in, +/- 15V out at >60mA:

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Bricksnbeatles said:
I missed the post where you previously mentioned this board, but just wanna say that looks fantastic! Never heard of that circuit before, but your praise makes me think I better breadboard it up!
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Breadboarding it is apparently easier lmao, I can’t figure out why the board isn’t working
 
I have a good friend that bugs me consistently to build things for him, and one he's asked about for a year or so has been a tube-driven FV-1 platform. So I buckled and threw it together. The weird looking pads down near the bottom are for "solder blob" jumpers, I wanted to try those out. If you connect the bottom left one it operates in true bypass, if you leave that open and jumper the other two it operates in buffered bypass so you can get tails out of delay repeats. Theoretically, anyway.

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Some recent layouts :) schmidt trigger fuzz from an 80s magazine, jen hf ring mod, and clean octave blend

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ooh and these showed up from oshpark, which are just little vactrol to dip-4 boards to theoretically make socketing easier. unfortunately I have not found an easy way to solder header pins onto the outer pads

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Have any of my fellow 'tracers worked out how to use the Spice simulation capability inside Diptrace? I get tired of how clunky LTSpice is for laying out components. I realise it probably has limited functions but thought it might be a timesaver to use instead of rebuilding each circuit in LTSpice - if it can give me the information I want.
 
Quick vent: The UI for Diptrace is such crap on MacOS. It straight up looks like its out of 1998, and it's way more difficult to navigate than the Windows version. Doesn't help that component previews in the schematic capture program are terrible. It'll be quite a while before I can get my desktop running diptrace again, but it's also frustrating not being able to use it on the go at all. Anyone have suggestions for a free PCB cad that actually works on Mac in the meantime? I have a pcb I want to lay out and get ordered ASAP, and diptrace is not being a friend in that matter.
 
Agreed @Bricksnbeatles
I think mine is better since upgrading to the hobbyist version if you haven’t done that already. I’m too committed to diptrace now to want to learn another CAD system.
I find with mine that it often freezes and I need to save a project regularly just in case I have to reload it. At least it’s free.
 
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