What’s on *YOUR* workbench?

[Feral Feline]

Why you bringing up the mining level? Took me forever, to do the level and get rid of the bad dreams.

Now I'm not going to sleep tonight.



Really though, the pressure at the end of the game, the final challenge — seemed harder and more stressful than other games.
I wasn't a big gamer, but Dark Forces ticked all the boxes for me.

THIS SOB ​

I should check out Dark Forces Remaster, just discovered it looking for the graphics in my previous post.

Right on! Gotta play that.




WHAT'S ON MY WORKBENCH!?!

Sadly, still just my computer — juggling tidying up some more switcher diagrams, finishing some circuit-traces, trying to make a TL074 perf layout work — I'm ready to throw in the towel and ditch the entire layout and start from scratch using 2 x TL072.

 

[JTEX]

Doing this took every bit of soldering skill I got. A good old friend needed help fixing some weird device. It involved soldering a connector onto a tiny flex ribbon that's really not made to solder anything on, but to go between two boards. It's super-duper melty plastic on both sides of the copper traces, you don't even have one second to solder before you melt a hole right through. Thankfully he gave me a ribbon and connector to practice on, which I promptly borked, but the practice helped. Second one turned out alright:

 

[drgonzo1969]

Doing this took every bit of soldering skill I got. A good old friend needed help fixing some weird device. It involved soldering a connector onto a tiny flex ribbon that's really not made to solder anything on, but to go between two boards. It's super-duper melty plastic on both sides of the copper traces, you don't even have one second to solder before you melt a hole right through. Thankfully he gave me a ribbon and connector to practice on, which I promptly borked, but the practice helped. Second one turned out alright:

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Damn! That’s impressive. I got a headache just looking at that. Haha! Nice work!

 

[Mentaltossflycoon]

Doing this took every bit of soldering skill I got. A good old friend needed help fixing some weird device. It involved soldering a connector onto a tiny flex ribbon that's really not made to solder anything on, but to go between two boards. It's super-duper melty plastic on both sides of the copper traces, you don't even have one second to solder before you melt a hole right through. Thankfully he gave me a ribbon and connector to practice on, which I promptly borked, but the practice helped. Second one turned out alright:

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This is how I feel while looking at that close up.

 

[JTEX]

Damn! That’s impressive. I got a headache just looking at that. Haha! Nice work!

Thanks. I just had to do it for my friend. I pretty much owe my career to him. He hired me for my first job in Canada, at Le Studio. I was a new immigrant, barely a few months off the plane, and nobody thought I had any chance to break into the very closed sound recording business - much less to work for a really famous studio. Years later, he ended up working for what is now my employer and he did it again! He let me know that there was a job opening and he endorsed me. I'm still there, 20+ years later. What a guy! One of the two smartest people I know, the other being George Massenburg.

 

[jessenator]

"I'm saaaaad that I'm bodging"

One of those"good enough for rock n roll" builds. It's my own layout so nobody to blame but myself. Forgot to mirror the drill template.

 

[JohnnyCreepy]

Had a pick-what-you-want-for-free tour to my friends home where his brother stashing little drawer of leftover components from past job.

Saddly NPNs and PNPs were all Si. Theres still tens of cmos and other ICs for me to salvage.

Spoiler

what can I build of these

 

[DGWVI]

Just about to come off the bench, get gussied up and demo'd


Fired right up, and sounds great without having touched any of the trimmers

 

[Feral Feline]

Doing this took every bit of soldering skill I got. A good old friend needed help fixing some weird device. It involved soldering a connector onto a tiny flex ribbon that's really not made to solder anything on, but to go between two boards. It's super-duper melty plastic on both sides of the copper traces, you don't even have one second to solder before you melt a hole right through. Thankfully he gave me a ribbon and connector to practice on, which I promptly borked, but the practice helped. Second one turned out alright:

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[Guilherme Collateral]

Zonkin’ around

 

[Paradox916]

Another ridiculous idea coming together.

 

[Nostradoomus]

Just swag. I’ll send a bunch to anyone who promises to slap em on a cop car or cybertruck. Worldwide offer, no charge.

 

[gonzo]

I would, but never seen a cyber truck here in Japan.

 

[Nostradoomus]

blessings on japan

I'm in a small town on vancouver island, canada. There's one around. I make it a point to point and laugh as much as possible every time I see it.

 

[giovanni]

I have seen a few cyber trucks here in Brooklyn. Every time I see one I scream. My wife is not amused by that. I do worry that if I touched one to put a sticker on my hand would catch fire.

 

[JohnnyCreepy]

Brutalist jr on a stripboard. It’s a tight fit to this re-used enclosure which had Joyo OCD clone pcb before.

 

[temol]

Arachnid in 0603 with two switchable EPROMs on a daughterboard. Still thinking about external switch..

 

[jwin615]

Arachnid in 0603 with two switchable EPROMs on a daughterboard. Still thinking about external switch..

Super clean design
Dig it.

 

[KR Sound]

The local shop has started sending repairs my way. So far, it’s a couple loose jacks and scratchy pots. Or maybe the owners had shitty cables.

 

[KR Sound]

Anyone familiar with this Iron Ether? It’s an FV1 envelope filter. Guess I’ll start tracing it and see what’s up- it just has a bunch of hiss right now.