#fv-1

Etched with NaOH, the pattern is a spiral made out of Octagons because Octagons.

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[Alex Lynham] has been creating digital guitar pedals for a while and after releasing the Atom Smasher, a glitchy lo-fi digital delay pedal, he had people start asking him how he designed digital effects pedals rather than analog effects. In fact, he had enough interest, that he wrote an article on it. The article starts with some background on [Alex], the pedals he’s built and why he chose not to work on pedals full-time. Eventually, the article gets to the how [Alex] designed the Atom Smasher. He starts by describing the chip he used, the same one that many hobbyists, …read more http://pje.fyi/PZCtmW

A few days ago this fell into my possession. This is a development board for the Spin Semiconductor FV-1. It’s labelled as a reverb DSP chip but it can do quite  a lot more. Had a few attempts at programming it and have come up with a stutter/freeze pedal so there’s a lot to exploit here. Got a few boards to develop around it, such as a mixer to blend the clean signal in as well as some external controls and other modifying pots.