[sdiy] First the Queen, now Harry...

[Peter Snow]

Hi Paul,

> thought Mark might have been going to lock you all in the basement until
> you fixed all his broken pedals!

We would have been locked up for quite a while in that case!
On a previous visit, Mark showed me a cardboard box he calls the "box of shame" which contains all
the projects he has built that did not get completed for whatever reason.  One that facinated me was
a circuit containing a couple of chips with no markings on them at all.  Turns out that Mark had
etched the PCB as a mirror image of what it should have been. Instead of trashing it, he simply bent
the legs of the ICs upwards and soldered in the chips up-side-down. So now the unmarked part of the
chip that normally faced down was face up! Maybe a good copy protection scheme?  To be fair, he has
many completed pedals that look and sound great.

> wish I hadn't been 8000 miles away ;(

Yea,  it's a pity, we had a great time. 

Cheers,

Peter