Building a guitar compressor pedal - PCB

Jon is building an Orange Squeezer compressor pedal. It's based on the Dan Armstrong design. Here we begin the PCB etch process.

Tomas

PCBs

I forgot to video anything last week as I spent the last hour watching Joe's PCB etch at its leisurely pace in the tank. It was an exciting week as we learned that we received grant support from the Dublin - European City of Science 2012 committee towards organising the first ever Dublin Maker Faire with the great people at the Science Gallery (Ian, Alison) and David McKeown. We now have to get busy building an exhibit good enough to make the day itself.

Study week this week so a quiet time. After a while wrestling with third party libraries Anthea hacks together a basic theremin using the Kinect. This is a great start integrating it with Processing as we now can add in all sorts of combinations.

Tomas

John built at home a really nice distortion pedal. Nice finish. Great sound.

Tomas

Arduino beginnings

Mark and Danny - music tech students have just joined the club. They are building new spatial audio controllers starting with the Arduino.

Tomas

First meeting of the new term

Thanks everyone for turning up today. We had a great turnout and more to turn up next week when the real hacking begins! Remember to send me your emails!

Tomas

Welcome back!

Hi everyone,

We will be launching the NUIM Makers Club for the new academic year on the 14th October 2011. The venue is room 2.07 in the Engineering Building. This year's theme will be music and we will devote energy and effort into the development of new forms of musical creation, synthesis and performance. I am hoping that we can put on a live musical performance using our creations towards the end of the academic year. It should be a lot of fun. Come to Room 2.07 on the 14th October to learn more and enjoy a slice of pizza or two.