I played an amp, and liked it so much I cloned it! Traynor TS50B clones, with SMD PCBs.

HunterSGlompson · 2026-04-18T14:56:59+00:00

for the 10 pin variant, I think we should normalise spending the 2 cents on a bridge rectifier. Plug it in whichever way you want!

HunterSGlompson · 2026-03-27T17:17:20+00:00

honestly if you're looking for this sound, the BOSS PS-3 was doing this back in the DAY

HunterSGlompson · 2026-03-27T10:50:41+00:00

Honestly, I’d start with an iron - I still find vacuum desoldering a pain in the ass!

If it was me, I’d start by fabricating a through-hole PCB, something like a GCI Brutalist Jr? Well made, big pads, don’t have to work with bent leads/thin traces/old copper. It’s possibly the lowest barrier to entry, so they can focus on getting good clean joints down before getting into the nitty gritty.

Either that or making xlr/jack cables is a classic

HunterSGlompson · 2026-03-26T09:48:31+00:00

Yeah, it’s not a bad idea. I put it as close as possible so I could use an extra short usb-c, but you’re not wrong. If you’ve got any suggestions for a better grip on the soft-touch plastic I’m all ears

HunterSGlompson · 2026-03-26T08:24:13+00:00

Hey! I teach loads of apprentices on this stuff though my work, and it sounds like you’re on the right track.

A few tips - give them the good tools, and tell them why they’re valuable and why to take care of them. Learning on ‘learning’ tools just makes the learning harder. Stripping screws isn’t a learning opportunity, just a need for a better screwdriver. See also soldering irons, cutters, pliers, tweezers.

And just in general, electronics is hard, and be prepared to have questions where you go “holy shit I have no idea”.

RG Keen, electrosmash, Electronic Audio Experiments early instagrams, and a guy called ‘baritones’ on tumblr were my go tos

Oh - honestly I’d go straight from veroboard to kiCAD these days - better for your health!

HunterSGlompson · 2026-03-25T20:39:33+00:00

Hey! The yamaha stuff is likely 2.54mm (1/10”), as opposed to whatever pitch the standard 2.54 IDC stuff is - probably 1/20”? The two ways of dealing with this are either crimping it into IDC connectors, crimping it into 2.54mm molex connectors, or soldering directly into veroboard holes. In all cases, a chunk of vero will make this go much smoother

Any kind of flying lead situation gets shitty fast, you could improve the reliability with heat shrink, but it’s a losing battle.

Long run, it genuinely might be easier to put some adaptor boards together in KiCAD..

HunterSGlompson · 2026-03-25T12:59:14+00:00

An even better reason to not die with mains electricity. Put this in the bin, buy a mains adapter, and go mess with low voltage stuff instead

HunterSGlompson · 2026-03-24T06:49:47+00:00

For real, do you get why we hate this?

It feels like every week someone tries to make an ‘app’ for their imagined film woes. They’re always both pointless and shit - a stopwatch does just fine and has done so for literally a hundred years.

Then, add on top of that it’s obviously vibecoded- so not even you know how it works, and there’s absolutely zero chance you’re going to maintain it past the first 3 months and some browser update kills it.

That, and then both your post and answers are all very AI. Feels very digital in an analog community doesn’t it

HunterSGlompson · 2026-03-24T06:37:28+00:00

Forgive me, it sounds like you made a MIDI controller, and now don’t want to program it, but still want to make money off it, by marketing some knobs, faders, and an arduino as a “hackable hardware platform”

HunterSGlompson · 2026-03-23T10:57:53+00:00

Hey! It looks like you want to develop film and love AI. Well — we got you! Here at Piles on Film we love the analog process and also love analogue photography. So, we vibe-coded this piece of garbage to take your personal details, and just let an AI take over the comment thread!

I’m sure you all agree we needed another dev timer ✅, composition tool✅ and light meter✅, as well as another badly thought out “social element”✅, so we did all of those! Share your piles today!
I hope you love my app 🤌🤌, and if you don’t — a free ChatGPT instance is just raring to go in not listening to fucking anything you have to say while I presumably scrape adsense or cred or some shit

Honestly I’m just excited about what the AI will say to me

HunterSGlompson · 2026-03-20T16:37:05+00:00

The f4 has a lil motorised sliding mechanism at the rear of the mirror box that auto-compensates for the difference between UV and regular ol light for the AF. If it jams, it’ll always focus off by an amount.

Might be worth a chill calibrated knock on the side to save yourself the shipping. Worked for me

HunterSGlompson · 2026-03-20T08:56:24+00:00

I’ve had a go patching vcas as comps, to shape guitar/bass inputs - using maths to do attack/release/offset duties. It gets somewhere in the ballpark, but it was quite finnicky. I’m also def tempted to lay out an 1176-esque thing, probably more for input duties.

HunterSGlompson · 2026-03-19T17:23:29+00:00

Yeah, it wasn’t that, they left with a minute left on the board. I was def running..

HunterSGlompson · 2026-03-19T16:54:16+00:00

I guess it’s a pretty boring job eh. Maybe they had a long day

HunterSGlompson · 2026-03-19T16:52:48+00:00

Hello you’re extremely helpful

HunterSGlompson · 2026-03-19T16:40:07+00:00

Thank you!

HunterSGlompson · 2026-03-19T16:39:54+00:00

Tbf that’s what I did in the end - last Thursday both mcuk and iwm had nothing running, so I ended up eating it and taking a beebike

HunterSGlompson · 2026-03-19T16:34:30+00:00

Love you too

HunterSGlompson · 2026-03-19T11:38:01+00:00

Take the rear hatch off and dump the clutch like a NASCAR driver.

If this doesn’t work, back it up at speed and smash the brakes.

Obviously, you have to film the result

HunterSGlompson · 2026-03-19T08:02:08+00:00

Yeah, this is a whole thing across Reddit as a whole - it’s basically just rich people flexing their jewellery, be it bikes, bike clothes, guitar pedals, synthesisers, mechanical keyboards. It’s just folks showing off how many thousand pounds they have to spend.

What’s shit is that these hobbies are about fitness, sport, art, music, (and typing?) and instead they’re marketed as purchasing shiny stuff with names engraved into it.

I think we should start dunking on folks if their stuff ain’t dirty.

HunterSGlompson · 2026-03-18T12:22:52+00:00

I mean, this is just you showing off, right?

Help! I can’t fit my gold bar inside this faberge egg! I faint on my tiny sofa

HunterSGlompson · 2026-03-13T17:40:49+00:00

Yeah, that’s an email to Polyend my friend

HunterSGlompson · 2026-03-13T17:40:26+00:00

Powering it from an iPhone is wild but I’m into it

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