MOTM

Hey all!  

I just finished my MOTM-ized BZ2300, the Blacet Binary Zone.  I must
say, this is quite the toy!  You can make nice little portamento or
trill events, divide a frequency by up to six octaves, and many other
fun count-by and divide-by tricks.  My favorite so far is to clock
this module with noise and set the divide controls to lower settings.
 With a little lag added, this make your notes sound like their
produced by some mutant jello.  Fine business, indeed, John Blacet! 

While drilling my Stooge panel, however, I failed to notice that the
hole marker labelled "clock" was really for an LED.  I drilled it for
an output jack!  I *did* notice that the LED used the same buffer as
the intended clock outputs, so now I have two full-width clock pulse
outputs.  In the near future, I'll add a 4017 wired to divide by an
odd number at this output-perhaps with a slew-to give me an
"anti-clock" output.  

For those concerned- why, yes I have plugged jello into an amplifier.
 The less said about this, the better...

Chub-all wiggly

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: osthelder <osthelder@...>
> I just finished my MOTM-ized BZ2300, the Blacet Binary Zone.  I must say,
this is quite the toy!

I'm looking forward to building on myself.  I'm still drilling panels for
everyone else right now.

> While drilling my Stooge panel, however, I failed to notice that the hole
marker labelled "clock" was really for an LED.  I drilled it for an output
jack!

HA !!  Don't think you are the first one to make that kind of mistake.  One
of the things I do to avoid that when drilling Stooge panels is to drill all
holes the same size up to the point when each one quites getting drilled.
Once I get to 1/4", I cover the switches with tap.  Once I get done with
5/16, I cover the LEDs with tape before I move onto the 3/8.

I *did* notice that the LED used the same buffer as the intended clock
outputs, so now I have two full-width clock pulse
outputs.

Good recovery.  :)
Larry