[HN Gopher] Erica Synths DIY Prototyping Breadboard
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Erica Synths DIY Prototyping Breadboard
Author : glitcher
Score : 58 points
Date : 2024-06-14 16:26 UTC (4 days ago)
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| byyoung3 wrote:
| honestly breadboards with a power supply built in is genius. Usb
| hub would be good too
| pbronez wrote:
| There's a kickstarter going for a fancy breadboard that adds a
| USB power supply. It also has some programmable routing
| features. I'm watching it but haven't backed yet.
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| https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/sandwizz/the-sandwizz-b...
| duskwuff wrote:
| That looks more like it's trying to do some sort of fancy
| software-controlled "breadboard" with internal routing. Neat
| concept, but it's going to be fairly expensive and fragile.
| I'm also concerned by the lack of discussion of parasitics.
| stiiv wrote:
| fwiw Global Specialties has been making "protoboards" like this
| for decades. They're pretty expensive, though.
| kalupa wrote:
| for when your synth isn't modular enough
| proee wrote:
| I'm surprised electronic breadboards have not changed for over 50
| years.
|
| Nothing worse than spending an hour debugging a circuit only to
| find the breadboard connection is bad. Lots of students in
| digital logic class can attest to this.
| DominoTree wrote:
| FWIW, they cost a bit more than the generics, but I've always
| had good luck with the BusBoard breadboards in particular
| cjk2 wrote:
| They're bloody awful and should be taken outside and shot. Even
| the expensive 3M ones. First they are unreliable and wear out.
| Secondly they melt when you inevitably screw up. Thirdly there
| isn't a ground plane so it's basically a nice board of little
| capacitors and inductors to argue with.
|
| For the last 35 years both professionally and as a hobbyist
| I've just soldered stuff to bits of copper clad board. On one-
| off items like test rigs etc, these are then screwed to the
| inside of the lid of a Hammond box.
|
| Also see AN47-26 "breadboarding techniques"
| https://www.analog.com/media/en/technical-documentation/appl...
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| (check Appendix F in particular)
| m463 wrote:
| You got me curious, and I wondered what alternatives could be.
|
| I found this interesting stack overflow answer:
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| https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/3206/best-so...
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| unfortunately the question was closed: Closed.
| This question is opinion-based. It is not currently accepting
| answers.
|
| Annoying that stack overflow specifically shuts this stuff
| down.
|
| Shutting down discussion makes it seem like a self-serving
| answer mill instead of a community.
| proee wrote:
| This is a nice idea from that discussion, using machined
| header pins.
|
| https://makezine.com/article/technology/if-breadboards-
| break...
| joemi wrote:
| I'm totally fine with that kind of question being closed
| because of that -- that's not what that site is for. It's
| supposed to be an answer mill... that's _exactly_ what the
| site is for.
| friggeri wrote:
| Moritz Klein is the reason I got into synths, his YouTube
| videos[0] are a really accessible intro. I'm super excited for
| this, we need more accessible prototyping platforms/tools. I
| ended up going down that rabbit hole myself a few months ago and
| built this[1] but it would be a pain to commercialize.
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| [0] https://youtube.com/@moritzklein0
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| [1]
| https://old.reddit.com/r/synthdiy/comments/14roaib/synth_bre...
| elric wrote:
| Moritz Klein, the designer of this project, is a genius when it
| comes to analog circuitry. He's been making simple DIY synth kits
| (with Erica Synths) for a good while now. They're all amazing.
| They come with manuals that are much more enlightening than most
| electronics textbooks. They're fun to build. And they sound
| pretty great.
| joemi wrote:
| Moritz Klein is a pretty great explainer of DIY electronics for
| synths. All his work with Erica Synths, including this
| breadboard, is such a welcome (and needed) addition, especially
| since the videos and manuals are all loaded with info and
| available to everyone, whether they've bought a DIY module from
| Erica or not. Props to both Moritz and Erica Synths for doing it
| like this.
|
| As to this breadboard, there have been a few synth- (or even
| modular synth-) focused breadboards created over the years (such
| as the one Bastl/Casper released a few years back), but this
| seems like a particularly well-designed one. I quite like the
| modular interfacing section (with its adapter PCBs) near to
| bottom -- that's a nice way to handle adding more controls
| easily/modularly.
| chaosprint wrote:
| I have every Moritz Klein module and highly recommend it
| tempoponet wrote:
| Bastl had a similar product called the OMSYNTH. They demoed a
| eurorack upgrade several years ago but never released it.
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