Archive for March, 2008
Sunday, March 23rd, 2008
... I'm surprised with what I'm able to do when I'm supposed to be doing homework.
Here's my latest project, it's less than 24 hours old =)
I've always wanted a looper effect, like the boss loopstation, mainly because the online demos were so neat. Being a bass player, I though it ...
Posted in diy, guitar effects, proof-of-concept | 7 Comments »
Monday, March 17th, 2008
...and why developing for Windows is not fun.
Behold, a one-click way to convert your videos to a format playable by your iPod!
[sic]
Well, here's my latest project. I've started it to provide my sister with a simple way to convert her videos, so that she could finally watch them on her ...
Posted in coding, ipod | No Comments »
Monday, March 10th, 2008
I have just received a push-pull potentiometer that I had bought on ebay. It's a hybrid between a potentiometer and a DPDT switch. It looks like this:
I installed it in my Fender Highway-1 Jazz Bass, in place of the regular tone potentiometer, and wired the switch part of it to ...
Posted in bass, diy | 5 Comments »
Saturday, March 8th, 2008
I've wanted to build this kind of effect for a long time. This was actually the reason I got my 4066 ICs half a year ago, when I visited my electronic components shop.
A Tremolo is an effect unit that modulates the amplitude of the guitar signal, usually in a triangular ...
Posted in diy, guitar effects, proof-of-concept | 10 Comments »
Thursday, March 6th, 2008
This is a short post with a simple fix for fellow math students how failed to install wxMaxima on Windows XP.
I had downloaded the maxima installer from sourceforge, and it already contained the wxMaxima frontend.
After installing to "C:\Program Files\Maxima-5.14.0" I tried to run wxMaxima but it failed to connect to ...
Posted in misc | 6 Comments »