ijustwannamakestuff

Just launched and with an introductory 20% off!

Happy New Year Baby! (via monkeysign123)

If I was the kind of person who could justify a budget for buying type-faces, I’d own this.

http://people.ee.duke.edu/~cec/final/node77.html

http://gilmore2.chem.northwestern.edu/projects/limiter_prj.htm

http://www.silonex.com/audiohm/limiter.html#

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operational_amplifier

http://www.datasheetpro.com/1009295_download_NE5532_datasheet.html

ampersandampersand:

Bell MT, Italic

I love ampersands. This old style in particular. I wont bore you with the history of ampersands. Not here. Not now.

The plan with the guitar is to make a semi-solid body to mount the piezos in and I’d really like to make the f-hole in the shape of an ampersand. I have a list of my favourites with the current blueprint for the guitar shape (work-in-progress) but this one’s just made top-of-my-list.

It’s beautifully elegant but also it’s one continous line so there are no cut outs to worry about.

Electronics

Courtesy of Make Magazine, this looks like it might be a great resource for a noob like me. I never got the opportunity to learn sciences or electronics at school so I’m working this stuff out as I go along, happily trying things until they work. Or don’t.

But blimey, if there isn’t a lot to learn.

I managed to get two piezos working on my guitar and tried it out on sunday, and it sounds great. I’ll be putting a write-up here soon in case anyone else has the same issues.

As for the in-ear-monitors, the preamp works great and last night I figured out how to get the limiter working which was pretty exciting. Again, write-up and images to follow.

guitar mk 1.0 from last week (via TheArtfulBadger)

This is the Flatbed pickup (the bridge) with a pot and a jack, before I had the bright idea of adding a second piezo under the neck.

I’ve been a big fan of pumpkin seeds since my brother introduced me to them when I was little.

It transpires that there are only two rules to making your own.

1. Scoop out the visceral, stringy innards of the pumpkin with all the seeds in it and put the disgusting pumpkin guts on the top shelf of your airing cupboard.

2. Don’t let your wife find it.

The effort of de-husking them is a bit much and I wonder how they do it on an industrial scale. The effort of being told off by your spouse however, makes the whole process pointless.

PS. Mel didn’t really mind, it did look a bit gross. But they really were way tasty.

As well as the guitar, the digital thermostat and the in-ear-monitors. I also like cured meats.

So this is interesting - Jack in the second post suggests putting the piezos in series rather than in parallel.