great to hear. your design inspired me. don’t be afraid to go to a bigger box either.
the esp32 is an awesome bit of kit, they may be a chinese company but they hired a world class hacker ages back and they did some incredible things. (like, made an ESP emulate a Mac… must finid a pic)
@dathey That’s super cool! I love seeing all the cool stuff people are doing here! I unfortunately haven’t been able to push the project forward much recently. I have a half finished next iteration of the hardware that makes it easier to do things like this where it’s not expecting all the jacks to be PCB mounted. One day I’ll get around to making that board a reality. Also, appreciate anyone sending pull requests for fixes or features to the git hub!
@kshep thanks for designing the pedal. I’m having some fun making it! I got 5 PCBs assembled, so might be thinking of selling some of the board soon (from the UK).
One issue I’m getting right now, is that after getting a Tayda enclosure (for the 125b), with the drill template, it doesn’t appear to be aligning correctly for the power and midi - I’m wondering if it’s been adjusted for the alpha pots?
Awesome, glad you are having fun with it! The Tayda enclosure template should match the latest designs with the Alpha pots. How far off is it? Sometimes the tolerances are a bit wonky with Tayda.
It seems quite far off to be honest (bear in mind I haven’t finished soldering everything on yet…). Do the Bourns pots take up less space between the pcb and the enclosure? I might be able to get a few as they are in stock here.
The holes in mine look positioned quite a bit differently… I think in this case either you used the wrong template or tayda goofed… Those holes should be basically centered I think looking at my pic and the template I used… I would get the file out probably…
@Burpydave Yeah, that doesn’t look right at all on the placement of the holes. As @xconverge mentioned those midi holes should be close to centered vertically. I checked my build the hardware pages and they are up to date. This should be the correct template: Tayda Electronics Drill
ah, that is different than the template I used for some reason… the y-pos for the holes in side b are -3.5 instead of 0.5 in the one you just linked @kshep. Is that the old template that I used then?
Yeah, that’s the older style one. I looked through my GitHub page instructions to see if I linked to the old one somewhere, but they all seem to be pointing to the correct one. So if anyone finds an old link, let me know and I’ll update it.
ok, thanks for the info - I’m going to purchase some Bourns pots so I don’t waste the enclosure - I’ll probably make another one anyway, so not to worry.
That will probably work, not sure which encoder you are using, but you might need to get the shorter version shaft too. The reason I originally switched to the Alpha pots is that the Bournes ones were getting hard to source and were backordered everywhere for almost 6mo. You also have to be careful to electrically isolate the bournes ones from the PCB (since they sit flush) The pins from the other side touch the bottom of the pots and cause an electrical short.
Sure happy to help, Eigen and eurorack are submodules, you have to update them through a git submodule command. Glad the effects suite is working. On the midi one, what exactly happens or doesn’t happen? I recommend using the command line to upload rather than the web tool, I’ve learned that the web tool uses an outdated version of the software, I don’t think Electrosmith keeps it up to date. Also make sure you’re loading it to flash memory, different from the effects suite which is loaded to SRAM. Hope that helps!