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Tom Whitwell @tomwhitwell ?

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  • Thumbnail Lured by the siren song of modular synthesis and DIY electronics, but not sure how to navigate the piles of requisite knowledge – or uncertain what the trip down this rabbit hole might have in store? For years, Tom Whitwell’s Music Thing was a beloved daily read, as that site and this one were among the early [...]

  • Can’t believe I’ve made it to CDM!  Two sites have really helped me out:  http://www.beavisaudio.com/ Is a phenomenal resource – explains all the simple stuff that everyone else takes for granted, like how to wire up power, how switches & pots work. His ‘Beavis Box’ is a great prototyping platform (i.e. a breadboard and a [...]

  • Tom Whitwell started the forum topic The audio demo thread in the group AvatarMeeBlip:   1 year, 3 months ago · View

    Got my meeblip running, super simple and easy. As I seem to be collecting small quirky desktop synths, here’s a very quick audio comparison between the Meeblip (all digital), the MFB Synth II (all analog) and the Shruthi-1 (digital osc, analog filter). A bit unfair, as I’d spent just 15 minutes getting the hang of [...]

  • Tom Whitwell posted on the forum topic FM Depth Issue in the group AvatarMeeBlip:   1 year, 3 months ago · View

    Sorry, was just about to correct thAt – uk distributor is oomlout http://www.oomlout.co.uk/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=223 for £15 

  • Tom Whitwell posted on the forum topic FM Depth Issue in the group AvatarMeeBlip:   1 year, 3 months ago · View

    …. Firmware upgrades ;) does anyone know of a european supplier of the programmer?

    I bought the Adafruit USBtinyISP kit – shipping to uk was pretty quick and it’s an easy build. Needed it to fix an arduino, not sure it would work the other way 

  • Tom Whitwell posted on the forum topic Power Supply in the group AvatarMeeBlip:   1 year, 3 months ago · View

    Geek note re: PSU polarity. If it was 9v centre Neg then it would work nicely with stomp box power supplies and – extrapolating somewhat – contain more mojo and hence sound better.  More seriously, if I want to add the 9v input to the easy build kit, what do I need ? The socket, [...]