[sdiy] FPE prices = HOLY SMOKES

[Dave Leith]

Hi Aaron

Check out this thread by fonik (Matthias Herrmann) about the infilling
<http://electro-music.com/forum/viewtopic.php?highlight=fill+stik&t=19065>

His site has lots of useful construction techniques http://www.modular.fonik.de

Cheers Dave

Personally I use laser engraving and do an entire panel width at one
time. It's about $80 Canadian per 8.75 by 17 inch panel
<http://minimalist.davidleith.com/DeitzModSynth2.html>



On 7/4/09, Aaron Lanterman <lanterma at ece.gatech.edu> wrote:
> I finally got around to hitting the little "$" symbol. Goodness gracious!
>
>  Preamp & envelope detector panel: $41.23
>  Lowpass gate panel: $51.69 (and the Easel has two of these)
>  Envelope generator panel $58.08
>  Pulser & inverter panel: $72.65
>
>  That's $265 in front panel stuff, and I still haven't done front panel
> layouts for the balanced modulator and the timbre circuit. And I've only
> barely started on the PCB layouts for the random generator and the
> sequencer, and I haven't started the oscillators yet. So that's another 6
> more panels, eventually.
>
>  I may have to rethink this...
>
>  The infill is around $15 each. Maybe I should give up on doing the blue
> infill on aluminum, and just go for a painted panel of some color with the
> raw stuff underneath.
>
>  Or maybe I should try doing the infill myself - someone in an e-mail to me
> mentioned something about a lacquer pen or brush or something like that, but
> I can't seem to find that e-mail now.
>
>  Or maybe I should just have FPE do the drilling, and I should try the
> lazertran thing.
>
>  Or maybe I should think about all the time I'll spend screwing up the
> lazertran (and come to think of it I don't have a color printer), and save
> up and go for FPE and just have them do it right.
>
>  - Aaron
>
>
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