Things are progressing slowly. I am currently quite busy with work and searching for a new apartment and preparing for moving so I haven’t relly had the time/energy to do any soldering for a while. I finished the Rim Shot section a couple of weeks ago but I actually forgot to upload the video, but...
Guess I better get going sorting the rest of the components, working on the Rimshot section. Instead of sorting to baggies I decided to just tape the components to a piece of paper (using paper tape). Saw someone suggest it on a forum and it actually feels much more organized. Will waste less plastic also....
As you may have noticed (if someone is actually watching!) I managed to put the switch in the Low Tom section on the wrong side of the board. Don’t understand how I could miss that, but shit happens I guess. Decided to spend some time on the new year to resolve this issue.
Didn’t feel like reworking the switch mounted on the wrong side of the PCB in the Low Tom section. Will do that another day! I continued with the High Tom, no big suprises here either but once again I seem to be getting sloppier with the solder so I had to use both solder wick...
While soldering the Mid Tom section today I noticed that I had messed up in last month when soldering the Low Tom. For some reason I mounted the switch on the wrong side of the board. It is very obvious when you see it but I cannot tell why I didn’t see it at the...
Finally I got the missing components for the snare drum of the Yocto. I had previously received some caps which had incorrect values, not sure if it was my mistake or if it was an error when packing the order. Doesn’t really matter! Now I have a nice assortment of hundreds of caps which should...
UPDATE 2016-12-17: I just noticed that I’ve soldered the switch on the wrong side of the PCB. I must not have been thinking… Sorry about that! 🙂 I finished the Low Tom section today. Should have built the Snare Drum but I am still missing some capacitors as my component order had been messed up...
Decided to experiment using multiple cameras to make it a bit easier to see things. Video in post! Started with the bass drum section but realized when mounting the capacitors that I seem to have sorted 1.5nF (152) capacitors instead of 15nF (153). Couldn’t find any 15nF in my stash either so I had to...
Finally back to soldering. For some reason I have had a hard time getting started with the accent section but today I got started after being sick with a fever and bored out of my skull 🙂 No drama here, everything went smoothly as far as I can tell. Click for video!
