#diy synth

Painstakingly fix DRC errors and get hole alignment tweaked.

Add little hidden phrases for fun.

Forget to actually look at the input/output labels.

See, the city is having what they call the "Bright Parade", an evening parade downtown; the theme is meant to be lights and illuminated sculpture, with a focus on human- and electric-powered transportation. (I'm expecting lots of LED-spangled ebikes.) The makerspace I hang out at figured that it really sounds like we should have something in it to show off the kind of stuff we make — and I was invited to include my synth, both to add sound to the experience and as an example of said stuff.

So I've been going around in my head trying to come up with a "set" that I could play on the thing. The forgiving part is that this is, after all, a parade, so the basic brief is to sound interesting for the couple of minutes, max, it takes to go past any given observer. I think I can handle that.

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my embroidered Atari Punk Console, embroidered amp, and embroidered speaker are all functioning! My hope is to apply these techniques to a larger and more interesting project in terms of the circuitry, but I’m very happy with what I’ve done so far. Figuring out how to mount the components and do the soldering and even the circuit layout was a lot of work! One of my main motivations for doing this is to have all the traces and components clearly visible and readable on the front of the pieces, and I think I’ve achieved that well.