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Mostly today, with a little work yesterday, I built Claire a ballet barre for sheltered in place Zoom classes from the SF Ballet and her longstanding barre exercise place, The Daily Method.

Finally completed the dynahi. I really enjoyed this DIY processing. Based on previous experience, this time I spent more time on selecting parts and adjustment, also increased heat sink size, quiescent current increased to 75mA. The gain keeps the original design value (200K/10K) and there is no background noise even using high efficiency earphones. Thank you everyone for your experience and information on this thread.

We adopted a dog! Her name is Olive 🥰

Think I like trimmers. Instead of servos – miniature stepper motor driven trimmers controlled by Arduino?

We need wholesome content and what's more wholesome than a classy British gentleman restoring classic cars. One of my favorite new channels on the youtubes.

My strange obsession with live, improvised modular jungle persists. This was 100% modular, recorded straight from the rack, one take, so please excuse it being a little.. ruff 😎

Dammit Colin, you're too close! We're on such an "insanity on fast forward" schedule that memes I downloaded last week are now obsolete. Don't give this one too much thought. General Motors Le Sabre, circa 1951.

Did the diode across the board and found some discrepancies in the input pair. Replaced both critters and voila. Board is biasing normally, both LEDs are shining. 60mV of DC offset on both channels with inputs shorted. Will finish wiring inputs output while waiting for servo opamps.

I did, but had forgotten that he used to be PWEI, thank you for joining the dots! Also, I am reminded of this:

"I Still Play features eleven new solo piano compositions by John Adams, Laurie Anderson, Timo Andres, Louis Andriessen, Donnacha Dennehy, Philip Glass, Nico Muhly, Brad Mehldau, Steve Reich, Pat Metheny, and Randy Newman."

Thank you , I was happy with it too.. literally just a lunchtime patch and it all clicked into place. Old junglists never quite reform, it seems. Yep. That's a blown cap on a Eurorack power bus board. I had a cap pop on me, in an unpatched but powered rack. I pulled all the modules out, and nothing seems to have been damaged thank goodness (especially not my shiny new Disting EX module, which are hard to come by right now). It was a brand new case, too. I was a bit shaken by that. It's not like I was drawing much at all, either. That happened the day before. I transferred those modules to a spare skiff case I had kicking about, and felt like I should mark the lucky escape.

I'm listening a lot to Mammal Hands

Sounds like a battle between the Mechanical Engineer and the Electrical Engineer inside of all of us.

BDent has made a fortune out of me due to them stories.

If anyone wants to play the video game equivalent of comfort food, I can highly recommend VA-11 Hall-A: Cyberpunk Bartender Action. It's a short visual novel style game but with no dialogue options and gameplay is mostly limited to mixing drinks for customers (and trying to figure out the right drink when they make vague requests or order something different than what they really want), setting up a playlist on the jukebox, and decorating your apartment when you can afford to. Despite that, it's easily one of the best games I've played in recent years, with an array of memorable characters and stories that will have you bursting out laughing one minute, and feeling like you got sucker punched in the gut the next.

I've ridden in several 2CVs. I have a warm place in my heart for them. However, there is nothing elegant about a 2CV.

I would look at getting a refurbished iMac directly from Apple to save a bit of money. Most of the Macs in my office are refurbished and they run without issues – Apple gives you the same 1-year warranty (here in North America) as a new Mac and I believe you can get AppleCare (expensive) if you want an extended warranty. In my opinion, some of the current Apple computers are handicapped due to Apple's refresh cycle or the manufacturing constraints of their suppliers – e.g., the AMD Radeon Pro 570 and 580X are actually old product and quite a way behind the state of the art, especially at the prices Apple is charging. The Vega is an expensive option and at this point it is also an old architecture. The Radeon Pro 5300M and 5500M in the 16" MacBook Pro are two generations newer (going from AMD Polaris to Navi) and perform like you would expect midrange mobile graphic processors to do in 2020. Check out AMD's upcoming 5600M and 5700M's specs to see what the new iMac GPUs might look like: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radeon_RX_5000_series#Mobile Dell's new mass-market gaming laptop has the Radeon RX 5600M (6GB) and you can check out its performance (definitely behind the Nvidia 2060) here: https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/dell-g5-15-se-5505-amd-smartshift Perfectly adequate, but nothing revolutionary and running hot in a small enclosure. So, in my opinion, it would be a good idea to wait until the refresh, or buy a current or used iMac at a decent discount if possible, because they aren't worth what Apple is charging. Intel's current 10th-gen (Comet Lake) CPUs aren't a huge jump from 9th-gen, but Intel added more cores in the flagship CPUs and the Core i5-10600 has 12 threads rather than 6 because Intel brought hyperthreading back (your performance mileage may vary) as well as increased cache, going from 9MB to 12MB. There is a good chance that Apple will also include Wi-Fi 6, which will benefit you in the long run. Regarding heat – if the newer processors can get the work done faster, they'll spend less time at max power. If you're doing a long gaming session, however, you'd want minimal throttling and excellent heat management without too much noise – we'll have to see if the new iMacs can do that. I think they will definitely have a lot more graphic power than the current iMacs, but at a price. The other possibility is that Apple enlarges the display in the current 21" iMac chassis to the rumored 23", which might give you a middle ground choice. The 21" iMac has typically been a better value than the 27", but Apple has always handicapped it with lesser hardware. That being said, the 27" 5K displays in the current iMacs are fantastic and they do make the computers seem like a better deal compared to most PC monitors.

Now this is an odd one. David Dees, absolutely batshit insane conspiracy theorist and Photoshop artist died at 62. Dude was off his trolley by the standards of conspiracy theorists. He was imbalanced compared to the guy shouting on a street corner. He made Ted Kaczynski and Ben Garrison look like rational actors: https://www.ddees.com/ The art of Dees is so insane that it represents Poe's Law in full. ` Here's the thing: Dees' art actually was art. The dude had a great deal of technical skill and a distinctive style. His works are like a rabbit hole of carefully crafted insanity. You look too long and you can feel your own sanity wearing away.

I have never seen one in white. That is a super clean look.

That’s a beauty!

mono in mono... “there was music and wonderful roses...” The Beatles - With The Beatles

The soldering IS the fuse!

Also cheaper not to buy the fuse insert. Clearly saving the big bucks here...

Don't want to blow a fuse now, do you? those things are pricy...

It isn't clear if the various bits of the new case are electrically connected. Many case manufacturers powder coat or anodize all the parts, and leads to odd problems with ground continuity.

Very cool! I'm a real sucker for that kind of stuff. BTW, is that a blown cap on the board of the background image?

When I was building my KG T2, I bought C3675's from Nikko. There were actually sparks from the board. Testing one of the unused devices on the curve tracer revealed they broke down at half what they should. Collateral damage was extensive. The horror story is all buried deep in the T2 thread.

Here is another one. I know its different because the caps on top are different. And its 1oz copper.