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Dang! I would at least do the gallon jug thing and then cross my fingers and hope for the best. I had considered the DIY route as well but Tobasco and Franks Red Hot are good enough for me from the store. Plus my kids always buy me hot sauce samplers so I'm always trying something new. Here's something to try 10-15 arbol, 5 guajillo, and 1 ancho peppers - all dried (you can re hydrate or simmer for longer) 2 garlic cloves 1/2 tsps of cumin, pepper, oregano 1 Tbsp of salt - (Salt and vinegar are key to a Tapatio clone) 3/4 - 1 cup vinegar Water to balance the solution so it barely covers the ingredients. However, you should have much more vinegar than water. Simmer for a LONG time. 15-30 mins. Blend and run through a mesh to pick up any dried bits of pepper.

let me know if you need anything. I may have the parts if anything is unavailable. I squirelled away some of these devices. I have 1 TKD board and 3 Alpha's if anyone needs a board. I might be able to part with a TKD pot if needed

awesome

I'll have to look. I might have some boards laying around if that helps

It looks neat, I like it. Still gotta build the Iron Pre kit from diyaudio but what's another preamp. I think I have the transistors too

The PCM58 and 63 are next. I've got some 63-K's so we'll see if they're any better. The output stages on those will be EUVL's designs. Those get a bit more complicated as you need four separate supplies for the output stage. Some are using batteries, I may go that route. We'll see... For now it sounds really good. I just fired it up and will let it sit running for 7 hours or so and give it a listen

I went with https://gabster.ca/Gabster-TD1/ You need one for stereo, two for balanced. I also have a set of ryanj's board but haven't built it yet You need -5, +5 , and +15V supplies and some way to feed it a PCM signal. I chose https://iancanada.ca/products/9-i2s-to-pcm-converter-board-v2-0 I fed that board right from my PC with an I2S bridge but any USB to I2S solution should work. You can take it up a notch and build an I2S streamer from that iancanada site. I will go that route once I put together the final config. I'll give you a hand if you want to give it a shot

The first completed DIY project in 3 years and in my new workshop lives! It's a battery powered Philips TDA1541A based stereo DAC, About 18 months ago I needed something to kick start me back into DIY after breaking down my old setup and moving to Florida. So I built a 10'x11' room in one of the garage bays and proceeded to slowly unpack. I ran across a few threads about the TDA1541 and became curious. This is what I settled on for the first try. It's on a test board I put together so I could mess with different power supplies and experiment with controlling relays to turn the power on and off. It's sounds surprisingly good! Very easy to listen to, the vocals are up front and full of details. It's only been running for about an hour so the highs are a little bright but we'll see what happens after a few days. I'm also feeding it an I2S signal from a PCIE to I2S bridge that's running off the switcher in the PC so I'm hoping a better PSU for the bridge will add further improvements. I have what I need for a balanced setup and then two chips paralleled in a balanced config so that along with a display for the Arduino are coming. Let the flames begin!

RIP Darth

No dice on the finished product. The template for the countertop was wrong so it went back. The toe kicks also need to be increased in height a bit as the floor sloped about a half inch too much and you would've seen the white of the base in a few spots. Hopefully Monday.

Here's where it's at now... Toe kick, drawer fronts, doors, and hardware tomorrow. Countertop as well

Yep, it's a complete U shape now with corner cabinets. I never updated the drawing. My son wound up doing it in the CAD software they use for the cabinets. It'll be used to assemble all the DIY electronics and work from during the day. I still have 2.5 garage bays just in case I work on anything that's too big for that room. The last bit will be to install an A/C drop and vent. Since it's summer in FL the HVAC guys are hoppin it'll probably have to wait until next month but I'll get there. The countertop will be on tomorrow.

BIg update with pics tonight... They're installing the cabinets today! In the last year it was: Framed out Electrical and network were run insulated, drywalled, and painted Mini soho network rack installed and all business class devices installed. 2.5G wired and Wi-Fi 6e (3 hardwired ceiling pucks) My son got a job at a cabinet company of all places so he had them build the cabinets and match them to the ones that are throughout the new house (wife insisted). I can finally start working on projects again after a 2 year hiatus! My first order of business is building a DAC, I sold mine and am down to a chord mojo.

So I want to make a simple box and then add a square hole in to that's 3 mm smaller all the way around. I can't figure how to align those objects, group them and then center the object on the table. Any thoughts?