Mo @mo@nitech.online

Have a Korg SQ-64 arriving in a couple of days. I have enjoyed using the SQ-1 with my #Eurorack gear but found the tiny little pots for the pitch voltage to be too fiddly for an optimal experience. I have a KeyStep Pro that is probably a better sequencer than the SQ-64 overall, but the keyboard gets me too tempted to think in terms of poly synths and lose the modular focus.

@joshua I probably don’t either 🙂 It was fun trying it though.

@joshua I’m 99.999% confident the polarity is good. All LEDs were oriented the same way and I double checked the position of the long leads for them all. Whereas my placement of the SMD resistors was particularly dodgy! That said, the resistor was probably only for managing the voltage across the LED itself, and there was nothing coming out of the jack.

The good thing about building the kit though is that you get all the schematics so it’s easy to narrow it down.

@MarkXA I’m paying two mortgages at the minute, but I suspect that I get a lot more benefit from those two places than you are from the three!

Tested it live in production (ie threw it into the rack rather than testing components/traces) and it all seems good except for the “1+2 4+7” jack. No LED or signal even if I’ve manually set all bits on the Turing Machine to on. Need to check the resistor I think.

@MarkXA I got my merit review details just before the holidays, and it sure makes the new year feel a little less daunting!

@Sloanysoft World Class Leaderboard and Rockstar Ate My Hamster! Two games I spent a lot of time playing!

Still not tested anything yet, but I’ll grab the schematic tomorrow and figure out the best way to test the components.

Feel like I need a double pronged soldering iron tip that I can apply to a blob on both pads at once so that I can put the component down a bit more symmetrically.

First foray into SMD components this evening. I still haven’t quite figured out my preferred technique. Currently using flux pen to prep the pads, then stick a solder blob on one pad and lightly tin the other pad. I then get the component (all resistors in this case) in the tweezers and heat the solder blob so that the component can be plopped into it. Heat still applied I push the other end of the component down onto the tinned pad then add a bit more solder to improve the joint.

@stuartgibson I’m anticipating a future in which there’s a giant floating patch of 3D printer “test runs” in the middle of the Atlantic.

@bigzaphod but you’re not getting quoted though, right? 🙂

@denis this is the way

For those who don’t celebrate #Christmas, I offer my thanks for your patience in listening to us go on about it. I hope I can be as respectful of your beliefs and/or traditions as you are of mine. Thank you.

Not going to mass. Could this day get any better?!

@seanddotmedotuk @OpinionatedGeek @BeebsyMcA

@seanddotmedotuk @OpinionatedGeek @BeebsyMcA if it wasn’t for fair employment stuff you could probably give them the job on the spot.

I’ve had people dive all the way down the OSI stack. I nearly proposed.

@seanddotmedotuk @OpinionatedGeek @BeebsyMcA moving into new house…
My housemates: “why does your computer have two network cards?”.
Me: “you’ll see… 😉”
Housemates:

@seanddotmedotuk @OpinionatedGeek @BeebsyMcA my favourite interview question (to ask) is “explain the process that occurs when you type a URL into your browser and hit the Enter/Return key”. So much scope for a deep dive.

Of course, a lot of our newer intakes are not used to typing in a URL and believe that the location field is just Google.

@OpinionatedGeek @seanddotmedotuk @BeebsyMcA I was only a DN@ customer from Lurgan so there was no NTL shenanigans for me. Though I did have ntlworld as an ISP in 1999-2001 and they had the 0800 number with 2 hour cutoff to allow other people to get connected. I had my Linux gateway connecting and as soon as the call dropped my script would redial immediately. Always on, except for redial time!