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“The first song I ever performed live was in fifth grade. I took my guitar to class and played the “Frito Bandito” song from a popular TV commercial. A girl in class started flirting with me. I didn’t know anything about girls, but I flirted back. Not long afterward I went on to play guitar at...
Adrian
Let me preface this review by getting the following out of the way: Yes, I could do all the things I’ll talk about on a laptop, tablet, or even a phone. Even on sale, it’s pricey. I could have bought a MIDI keyboard, audio interface, microphone, and a guitar amp (and let’s face it –...
acidbourbon
Motivation Guitar effect pedalboards … If this post is for you, I guess I don’t have to explain this concept in great detail here. Most of us have a USB power bank lying around somewhere that can charge your phone or wireless headphones, should you end up somewhere without access to a wall...
Martín Villalba
There is a recurring joke about how the longer you work as a programmer, the stronger the urge to quit the industry and go live in a farm. I'm not at that point yet but I do have a soft spot for making physical things with my own two hands that, no matter how crooked, I can hold proudly and say "I...
acidbourbon
Motivation This is a very short one – but I felt like sharing this with the world. I was playing around with the humble long-tailed pair transistor amplifier in LTSpice. I noticed something interesting – not only can it be used as a differential voltage amplifier, but it seems it can also be...
acidbourbon
Demo Video Introduction Earlier this year I wrote a post about how to build a simple shortwave receiver with nothing but widely available hobbyist electronics parts, i.e. 74HCxx ICs, standard transistors and op-amps. Half-jokingly I called it “a 74xx defined radio“. The heart of the...