#protosynth

So hopefully the Kicad tutorials have helped a few people get started.  Since doing all that, we've been working on a couple of projects that have been in the long-term project list.

First, we've finally worked on the Duck Room!!  I think I might have mentioned that we put up hardwood walls to replace the 70's faux wood paneling that was there before.  And last night, we got a gallon of paint and decided to paint the rest of the walls!  Note, there's some awesome 10 dollar painting kit at Home Depot that'll cost you less than getting each piece by itself.  The paint was 25 bucks a gallon - pretty simple to get it all done.

So that's coming along.  We might even work on workbenches in that room since we know where the studs are.

And secondly, Whisker's been working on his breadboard synthesizer called ProtoSynth.  It got a lot of traffic, which is great, thanks to HackaDay picking it up.  A number of other synthesizer blogs also picked it up, so that's helped!  If anyone wants one, Whisker's willing to make it, but for a negotiable price :p.

So we've been busy, though the blog's been slow.  I've been trying to figure out what I want to learn next.  I do want to finish up the KiCad PCB I've been working on, but it seems like there is information I need to learn on wire traces in relation to current @_@.  A few tweets from eevblog seemed to suggest that that was an important detail to consider when making PCBs.

Oh and this Thursday is ZombieTech (as always), but this week we're talking to Earle Kyle, a SUPER accomplished engineer who worked on designing the hardware for the Apollo manned moon mission.  You know, the one with Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin.  Yeah.  That one.  We get to hear about his experience with that and what he's been working on.  Very inspiring to listen to!