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!
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…
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…
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.
