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Building the Yocto #12 – Soldering the High Tom

2016-12-28 Laban
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…
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Building the Yocto #11 – Soldering the Mid Tom

2016-12-18 Laban
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…
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Buildning the Yocto #10 – Soldering the Snare

2016-12-142016-12-17 Laban
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…
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Building the Yocto #9 – Soldering the Low Tom

2016-11-062018-06-11 Laban
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…
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Building the Yocto #8 – Soldering the Bass Drum section (Part 2)

2016-10-29 Laban
Found some 15nF caps so I could finish and test the bass drum section. Video after the link!  
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Building the Yocto #7 – Soldering the Bass Drum section (Part 1)

2016-10-182016-10-18 Laban
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…
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Building the Yocto #6 – Soldering the Accent Section

2016-10-152016-10-15 Laban
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!  
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Building the Yocto #5 – Soldering the Noise Section

2016-08-062016-08-06 Laban
Finished noise section with modifications
I have now finished building the noise section of the Yocto. Pretty straight forward to assemble, but I hade big problems calibrating the AC RMS output to 130mV as instructed in the build guide. After searching the E-Licktronick forum for help I tried some suggestions of switching some resistors to other values but to no…
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Building the Yocto #4 – Soldering the power supply

2016-07-26 Laban
I got tired of sorting all of the components for all of the modules so I decided to start building and testing the power supply. I seem to have been successful as all the voltages were correct. I decided to use an old power connector for a IDE harddrive to be able to disconnect the…
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Building the Yocto #3 – Still sorting components…

2016-07-142016-07-14 Laban
So there’s quite a lot of components to sort! I am figuring out that I am missing some parts also. I think it was a good idea to go through this before starting the build as it would have been quite frustrating finding out this while soldering.
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