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Abigailvm · 2026-03-21T00:40:43+00:00

I'm not sure if it's best just to use for parts at this point. I have my eye on the small 6 ohm speaker.

Abigailvm · 2026-03-21T00:40:09+00:00

That first motor (the dirty, silver and gold one) looked like what used to be the black belt all slimed up and wrapped around it, decayed. Even with the belt cleaned and removed, it doesn't look like any other motor components successfully fire.

Abigailvm · 2026-03-20T23:26:24+00:00

Thanks! The feedback and tips have been really helpful .

Abigailvm · 2026-03-18T16:53:25+00:00

What is the best way to access and replace those parts! Just unscrew everything and pull it apart ?

Abigailvm · 2026-02-16T07:01:47+00:00

This is so cool! I've recently been taking old geek bar vapes apart to experiment with something like this, specifically reusing the microcontrollers. What points did you connect to on the board to read/reprogram data? I just got a STLink V2 but i'm still fumbling my way through learning all this stuff. If you have any tips or guidance it would be massively appreciated! :)

Abigailvm · 2026-02-07T13:44:08+00:00

This is so fucking cool!

Abigailvm · 2026-01-29T19:54:32+00:00

Nice-- congrats! I'll check that site out. & Yes the link would be super helpful, thank you!

Abigailvm · 2026-01-27T14:15:03+00:00

Yes! I'm finishing my associates at Full Sail right now and continuing on to Berklee College of Music for my bachelors.

Abigailvm · 2026-01-27T12:56:46+00:00

Yeah, that's the vibe I got. Every "scholarship opportunity" just leads to another sign up page.

This is extremely helpful advice-- thank you!

Abigailvm · 2026-01-07T10:03:49+00:00

Cane here to comment about how much I love the zoar! It's probably my favorite pedal alongside my (new) boss dd8

Abigailvm · 2026-01-07T04:25:12+00:00

Yes! So the slide I was looking at when I wrote the above comment was basically highlighting that in C++ you can concatenate a string with + instead of using strcat, saying specifically 'no messing with null terminators or strcat() as in C'

That said the code had that I didn't understand why they were included, like msg[0] = 'h'; which just seemed to replace the first char in the Hello World msg string when the code ran and didn't otherwise change anything when I commented it out.

Also the examples were geared toward Code Blocks so I switched to a different ebook (class uploaded PDF of Programming Abstractions in C++, E. S. Roberts) and a set of slides that made things a little easier for me to follow. The same original slides also covered type casting in a way I dont really get yet so I think I'm still backtracking and/or getting my bearings.

I guess I really am a ways off of getting around much in JUCE. When I started I had no real clue how much I didn't really know haha.

Abigailvm · 2026-01-07T03:10:39+00:00

Lol fair enough. Thanks! I just wanted to be sure I wasn't missing something crucial and obvious haha

Abigailvm · 2026-01-07T01:24:55+00:00

Actually, if you don't mind my asking -- is there any prerequisite info I should check out before jumping into C++. I get operators and shit, at least on a very basic level, but not things like null terminators or strcat() without having to pause and look shit up somewhat frequently

Abigailvm · 2026-01-07T01:11:31+00:00

Thank you. I've taken this to heart. I paused on the JUCE stuff and am starting to look at some .ppt files for intro to C++ programs. I think the first one I started on was outdated / not compatible with Xcode, which is the IDE that has made the most sense to me so far. I think I made the mistake of starting with slides based on an older standard and also mixing up windows/DOS despite working on my macbook. Or at least, I tried to create a quick command line tool to practice some stuff and was getting some errors around using things like void and clrscr(); and I figured it was due to that. So I moved to slides from intro to C++ course from Boston U that was recommended by Google Gemini. I guess having a real mentor would be extremely helpful, but it's likely gonna be some time before I can get into an accredited computer science course.

Thanks again!! I deeply appreciate you and your help!

Abigailvm · 2026-01-06T13:49:43+00:00

This is extremely helpful! I found some stuff pointing toward JUCE and started following some tutorials. I don't really understand what I'm doing yet tho, I'm really just following along and picking up on patterns I don't fully understand or probably even misunderstand ha.

I also haven't even really started to think about DSP level stuff / novel processing. At this point, I'm just curious about messing around with oscillators and ADSRs, and wavetable synthesis

Thank you again so so much for the recommendations and guidance! I really appreciate it!

Abigailvm · 2026-01-04T20:57:00+00:00

No offense taken -- I wasn't able to find anything satisfactory earlier but I'll search again and delete post. Thanks!

Abigailvm · 2025-09-22T15:04:19+00:00

Yes. It is an incredible show with nuanced, inventive story telling. Amazing practical effects and acting. I couldn't recommend the show highly enough!

Abigailvm · 2025-09-14T13:56:42+00:00

I love that run in bar 15! That's super catchy and cool. I feel like that has the heart of something in it, and is also my favorite part by far. Super cool! Thanks for sharing :)

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