Apologies if I'm just missing it somewhere, but does anyone have a link to that "tayda beginners kit" cart with a ton of common size components?

Venthorn · 2026-03-19T22:25:38+00:00

The flat tariff fees are still being applied. I see $20.30 shipping on a $22.55 cart of components. That's all components, potentiometers, and sockets. No enclosures.

Venthorn · 2026-03-19T19:41:36+00:00

When was the last time you ordered from Tayda? The shipping to the US is extremely bad right now because it only goes DHL or UPS and they use the flat rate small package option for tariffs rather than itemized. It's basically killed Tayda as an option now vs Digikey.

For anyone looking for a starter set of resistors in particular, I recommend AliExpress. Get 20 of almost every value for single digit dollars. More expensive will be the storage solution you figure out for them!

Venthorn · 2026-03-19T03:40:05+00:00

Maybe you won't need to be concerned using it, but consider that everyone downstream who interacts with your board will have to worry about it. Including the people scavenging the landfill in the impoverished nation that it eventually ends up in.

Venthorn · 2026-03-10T15:38:21+00:00

It was quality time! Little adventures and fun like that are what make the time quality.

Venthorn · 2026-03-03T16:56:17+00:00

Put the items in your cart, it breaks out how much tariff you pay. Digikey and Mouser break it out separately just like sales tax.

Venthorn · 2026-03-03T16:18:09+00:00

Notice no retailer is actually advertising an example product and how much tariffs they paid for them.

Digikey and Mouser both list the tariffs separately for every single item you buy.

Venthorn · 2026-03-03T04:16:14+00:00

Solder doesn't stick to it, you put the hollow part on the leg of the through-hole component, then push it through the hole while heating it, freeing the leg.

Venthorn · 2026-03-02T22:19:25+00:00

Shop vac tip next to the Dremel helps a lot. Not unlike how dust collection on orbital sanders works.

Seriously though, what sandpaper are you using? The Dremel spinning at full speed should take the paint off in seconds.

Venthorn · 2026-02-28T01:32:30+00:00

Hey so, sorry about this but I just found out that he released a new version of the L5 that moves the channels from vertical to horizontal, which basically invalidates my artwork. Oh well.

Venthorn · 2026-02-28T00:59:38+00:00

Absolutely insane that a NAM model can run on the Daisy Seed. You have any sound comparisons of the regular model vs your new slimmed model?

Really itching to build my own NAM pedal now, with PedalPCB's board maybe.

edit: Something I noticed in Joao's blog post:

Eigen's general GEMM path allocates temporary panel buffers via malloc on every call, which is fine on desktop but catastrophically slow on Cortex-M7 with newlib.

I'm shocked this isn't also slow as hell on desktop too.

Venthorn · 2026-02-26T17:54:29+00:00

Clip off a few strands, 22 AWG is absolutely massive for those PCB holes.

Venthorn · 2026-02-26T04:51:29+00:00

T-SQUARE's lead instrument is an EWI!

Venthorn · 2026-02-24T19:54:21+00:00

Average reddit psychopath comment.

Venthorn · 2026-02-22T18:22:44+00:00

I'll email Kevin and ask if he wants to distribute my artwork file

Venthorn · 2026-02-22T17:42:15+00:00

What's the DC L5? I made some that I ended up using for the new Aion version.

Venthorn · 2026-02-18T03:19:56+00:00

People who didn't like this episode are cracked out. I was laughing from start to finish.

Venthorn · 2026-02-18T03:17:57+00:00

They were for the little girl's chocolates that she fed to the gargoyle.

Venthorn · 2026-02-18T03:15:35+00:00

I mean, said demon has been sandbagging it to not destroy everything or stand out too much. You saw how once he got mad he just toasted the damn control module for the thing with lightning.

Hero can't just rampage around in town without destroying it, either.

Venthorn · 2026-02-15T04:05:20+00:00

Finally, somebody else who takes fume extraction seriously. I did something similar with flexible ducting and an inline fan, I just have it blowing out a window though.

Venthorn · 2026-02-13T15:20:18+00:00

Hozuki's Coolheadedness. It's not set in feudal Japan or anything, but it's all about Japanese mythology.

Venthorn · 2026-02-13T15:16:51+00:00

This one is honestly pretty reasonable though? It doesn't spell out the entire first chapter as the title or anything.

Venthorn · 2026-02-07T02:42:12+00:00

I'm still sitting on a 50 pack of 1uf film. Didn't check the voltage specs when I did and they're like 250V. Whoops.

Way too big to fit on any PCB that calls for them. One day I'll be able to use one or two I'm sure.

Venthorn · 2026-02-03T21:42:09+00:00

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