Runoffgroove Thunderbird: Jimmy Page's White Dragon Suit

[mcasemo]

I made some PCBs for the ROG Thunderbird, being legit and following Brian Tremblay's licensing agreement (think i might sell a few).  I tried to follow good layout technique, but to be honest, all i know is to try to keep the power separate from the signal, then after a while of routing, that is out the door (I think i ran the Vcc right under one of the voltage diodes). 

First build sounded amazing, but had a high pitch noise, and the white noise was too much.  Tried shielding and that did not work, finally figured out I have bad batch of LT1054's (ebay) (5 KHz switching freq) and once i found a good charge pump, it was much more quiet.    I'm going to avoid charge pumps for a while, struggling with bad ones in a few other builds (although TC1044SPCA's at mouser are like $1 right now).

Anyway, this thing sounds awesome, and super loud.   Octagon enclosure, water slide decal, graphic I got from a "one sixth warrior" forum, a guy in korea made a 1/6 scale jimmy page with this suit and I found his suit graphic.  I wish i could still find the photos of it, it was insane, little Jimmy with little LP and pedal.  I'm trying to pay him as well if I sell them, but he's not responding.

[matmosphere]

The pics aren't working, but it certainly sounds like a great build.

[mcasemo]

ah crap!   stupid google photos.  I hope it's working now.  I'm signed out of google and can see them.

[HamSandwich]

Nice! Cool design. But are you also going to pay Jimmy Page for using his name? 

Is the wiring complete? There's a jumper to that middle row, assuming you just haven't wired up the LED?

[jimilee]

That's fantastic looking.


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[Philthy]

cool

[stringsthings]

That's some incredible attention to detail.  Well done!

It is a very loud circuit.

[mcasemo]

Haha, i should try!   Yeah, I had not put in the led yet.

Nice! Cool design. But are you also going to pay Jimmy Page for using his name? 

Is the wiring complete? There's a jumper to that middle row, assuming you just haven't wired up the LED?

[tcpoint]

Juansolo did something cool with a noisegate on a thunderbird build.  The thunderbird is notoriously noisy.

[drsteel]

Wow! That's beautiful.

[TheDude]

Just loving the artwork here. Great job!!!

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