Interesting. I'm looking at the pen from my ancient Graphire series right now (used a pair of flush diag cutters instead of pliers). What does that change? How far back down the line does that apply? (I don't have the problem that I know, just curious.)

@Chris first instrument I ever made (5 years ago, when I was 12) was a cigar box hurdy gurdy. Old bit of washing line for the string and a pencil for the axle. Never again :)

@Nyarlathotep Cheers!

I had a peek at you flickr, very nice work ! Very clear sound too. Congrats Mister !

I've wanted to build one for a couple of years. If I were to build one, it would be rather in the spirit of a cigar box guitar. I am not much of a luthiere.

@Jiri the more I read, the more I think that D* is not about decentralisation at all :(

@CowMan http://waterpigs.co.uk/cards/ @Chris no idea, I'm afraid, I've never added Piwik to a D* pod. Best bet is to ask a developer.

@Salk sorry for the delay, I didn't get notifications of your comments for some reason. Looks like a nice little circuit.

I live in a relatively high population area, and it still took me a 100 mile round trip to get mine (but that was over 6 years ago). Good luck with the ebaying.

Hello friends

Wow, you got me to a T and we haven't even met yet!

@goth1856 I made a location-neutral version specially for you to use ;)

Cheers — I'm not actually trying to bend it (more trying to avoid that!). I'm making a Hurdy Gurdy, and the aluminium shaft will stick out about 1cm from the end, so I want to avoid it bending. As soon as I can access a more powerful lathe, I'll make a stainless steel shaft, but for the moment ally'll have to do.

yea you can bend it with a hammer. If you want precice bends, I would suggest wraping one end in a thin cloth [to prevent marring, if you care about that], then put it in a vice and bend it.

Depending on what kind of alloy. Hammertaps for sure, only problem with Aluminium is that it gets harder when deformed, so do it right the first time.

Materials 2x 33 K resistors 2x100K resistors R2,R3_____68K 1/4W Resistors R4,R6 _____ 280K C1,C2,C6_________4µ7 25V Electrolytic Capacitors C3,C7___________22pF 50V Ceramic Capacitors "No los puse" C4,C5,C8_______220µF 25V Electrolytic Capacitors

IC1__________NE5532 Low noise Dual Op-amp

J1____________3.5mm Stereo Jack Socket

SW1____________SPST Slide or toggle switch

B1_______________9V PP3 Alkaline battery

Clip for PP3 Battery

hey, I've got a prototype for an audio amplifier with a NE5522 op-amp- here is the link. http://www.forosdeelectronica.com/f31/amplificador-auriculares-9v-instrumento-18231/ the final circuit is here: http://img209.imageshack.us/img209/5063/head9vawa.gif its in spanish but if you're interested we can chat about it. I made the protoboard and its pretty cool. You can add to the signal an audio input plus the signal from a electric guitar or bass.

bass, #audio, #amplifier, #headphones, #diy, #electronics

hey Im trying to add #piwik to my POD https://redblack.me and in the application.yml what should I put? where url I put my piwik site piwik.redblack.me and on the id I put 1 since is the only site I have..

no pictures or anything of these said niche ecards?!

Okay, I am posting. No what?

TBH I quite like it :) — if nothing else, the music is extremely successfully written, as it is highly catchy.