The Blacet mechanical scheme will work for the most mechanical formats (PC board 90
degrees from panel).
You can always mount the board parallel to the faceplate in a desktop design using longer
standoffs to the faceplate.
All packaging will be by the end user. I only see a PC board coming out of this. Hopefully a
group buy will make them available to the public for under $50. With publicly published
parts sources. You supply the solder.
If people do layouts for Schaefer panels, it will be nice if they share them with the group.
I'm still thinking "high school science fair project" (maybe with Dad's help?). It is a general
purpose processor board with voltage I/O, you could use it to control Christmas tree lights
around the house. We are just adding the tweaks so it fits perfectly with analog modulars.
The fact that it will be very fun for ALL modular guys is a bonus.
For a didactic object, the more immediate the reward, the better the learning potential.
What better "reward" for learning than to hear music you caused with your own
programming? And the worst punishment for failure is the music sounds strange, nothing
students would need therapy for.
I wish there was still an "all in one" synth chip so we could put a synth voice right on the
PC board. The Speakjet is an OK substitute (pitches are not very accurate).
--- In ComputerVoltageSources@yahoogroups.com, "Gary Chang" <gchang@...> wrote:
>
> "Grant Richter" <grichter@> wrote:
> >
> > I think we just plan to rotate the board.
> >
> > For Frac-Rac, the 4 inch is the vertcal dimension, for MOTM, the six
> inch is the vertical
> > dimension. This why no board mounted pots or jacks.
> >
>
> Grant,
>
> Regarding the pcb design and application, are you planning for a
> perpendicularly oriented pc (ala Blacet), or a parallel oriented pcb,
> (ala Wiard)?
>
> gary
>