[sdiy] how to best learn the trade

[anthony]

Yeah Ken's site is a great place for beginners and, indeed, people of all 
skill levels.

Ray Wilson's Music from Outer Space site is a great one too:

http://www.musicfromouterspace.com/

Juergen Haible has some great advanced projects and there are a good deal of 
small circuit ideas there too:

http://home.debitel.net/user/jhaible/hj.html

This is by no means an exhaustive list of all of the cool pages that people 
on this list have, but Ken Stone's and Ray Wilson's are two really great 
ones to start from.

It could be good to cut your teeth on some guitar stompboxes first as well. 
I think tonepad.com is one of the best:

http://tonepad.com/

General Guitar Gadgets is a great one too:

http://www.generalguitargadgets.com/

Small Bear is a great online store and they have some projects too:

http://www.smallbearelec.com/home.html

Super place. But again - not an exhaustive list by any means.

Some day you'll want the page with all of the Buchla schematics:

http://rubidium.dyndns.org/~magnus/synths/companies/buchla/

or this... one is a mirror I think. I dunno which:

http://home.swipnet.se/cfmd/synths/companies/buchla/

Anyway, get comfortable reading schematics before you learn a whole new way 
to look at them. Actually it's not THAT bad... Buchlas circuits are 
ingenious. I'd love to build many many of them. What I wouldn't do to have 
an actual module (well nothing contrary to my faith...).

Happy soldering,
Anthony


> i'm only one or two steps on from where you are, but i learned what little 
> i know from studying the schematics at Ken Stone's website 
> http://cgs.synth.net . i'm a software engineer by trade, so CMOS circuits 
> made sense after a little while as they're basically just logic, but the 
> nuances of analogue circuits still largely escape me.
>
> in any case, you'll find opamps all over the place and you could do worse 
> than studying common applications of them.
>
> things gradually fall into place, and the wonder of discovery is amazing 
> in the electronics world.
>
> btw when converting schematics to board layouts, lay things out on paper 
> or in software first. that way you can screw up without it costing you 
> lots of desoldering time :-)
>
> have fun, and please ask questions.
>
>
>
>
>>Thanks for everyone who responded to my previous post in regards to
>>manufacturing front panels.
>>
>>Now I want to ask you all about what are the best resources for
>>someone who doesn't quite know how to read a schematic, but can build
>>a well instructed kit no problem. I want to be able to perform
>>modifications to some of my kits,  (fatman and x0xb0x), and in the
>>future, build some of my own devices.
>>
>>Questions like, how to take a schematic and make a board from it, etc...
>>
>>Thanks in advance
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