• weeknotes #8: real things

  Feb 15, 2022

  i went bouldering

  first time in six months; second time since march, twenty-twenty.

  everything hurts.

  that was sunday.

  i uh. i did a v4 grade? which was surprising. there’s a large hole in one of my climbing shoes and i bought some replacements, except there are two types of climbing shoes:

  • cute ones
  • ones that fit

  and, fuck everything

  i made a synthesiser, for my dad

  well okay so i made one in december for him for christmas. it was built on stripboard in an altoids tin, and looked like this:

  

  it’s somewhere in a Hermes depot, or a ditch.

  so i started again (this is your strength)

  i designed a circuit board for the thing:

  

  and got it printed by a company in Shenzhen. because it turns out you can just, do that. and it’s just a bit of soldering, and troubleshooting, and working out the headphone amp you added never would have worked because of something something capacitance something phase inversion. and now it looks like this, which is a real thing, that i made, i can design and make real things:

  

  designed and hand built in Nunhead and Greenwich™

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