The new projects page has been uploaded, along with the release of the five newly manufactured boards. I've tweaked the page into more of a category style, which I think helps organize things a little better. Also, I've added "archive" downloads that contains many of the older versions of the projects.
The five new boards available are for the Slambox, EgoDriver, Serendipity, Sabertooth and the Darkside. Each project has a new document with both the layouts for the fabbed boards, and for the single sided design. So, now you only need one document. A couple of the single sided designs were tweaked in minor ways, too.
Please let me know if you find anything that's broken. I think I've got everything tested, but I've been at this for a couple of days, so yeah...I'm a little burned :)
http://www.madbeanpedals.com/projects/index.html
Love the new layout, my friend! Nice to have the pedals organized according to function. Well done!
Site's glitchy on my computer. I miss the old way.
Jacob
Jacob - what problems have you encountered? And, what browser are you using?
Very good Brian .. is much easier and orderly way ... congratulations .-
I notice that the document Sqweeker and Thumper does not have the pcb.
Cool.
Looks and works great in Firefox 3.6.9 and Opera 10.62.
And Safari 5 (on a mac). Much easier to find what you're looking for. Why is the thumper discontinued?
Thanks guys. I will get the remaining PCB artwork ASAP. I wasn't able to squeeze that in for today.
I discontinued the Thumper and Fallout only because I'm trying to get away from doing large, hand-made boards. In fact, this is the beginning of my transitioning out of hand-made stuff, altogether. It's time to grow the website and expand the horizon in terms of content. I want to have time to offer more ORIGINAL (and fun) projects that I hope will be innovative in some way. And also, I want to start working on the educational content, too. I have not been able to do these things due to the enormous amount of time it takes to make so many different boards. This week, I had my first day in 5 months with no outstanding orders....that's kinda stressful ;D
So, you can expect many more new projects released directly as fabbed boards, and many of the older projects to transition to that over time. The Thumper will live on in that I will get the Slow Loris (1/2 of the Thumper) manufactured soon. The Snarkdoodle, too (1/2 of the Fallout).
Ah, I'm running Safari 4 and it's not perfect.
Brian is become Francisco of North America.
Jacob
AWESOME! I have been checking everyday and I didn't realize I had to refresh to see the new page.
If I place an order of all fabbed boards do they ship out faster than the handmade boards?
Quote from: eniacmike on September 12, 2010, 10:16:25 AM
AWESOME! I have been checking everyday and I didn't realize I had to refresh to see the new page.
If I place an order of all fabbed boards do they ship out faster than the handmade boards?
Mike, thanks! And, yes. They ship as fast as I can put them in an envelope and print up some postage :)
Since I'm fairly caught up on orders everything will be shipping more quickly, as well.
Sorry, forgot to answer the first question. Mostly the images on the left dont look right. The images are all squished and oriented wrong. Maybe it's supposed to be like that, but I can read any of them other than compressor - I know what they are because I'm familiar with the projects.
I'm sorry, I don't want to criticise or anything, I just miss the old layout. It would be neat to be able to tell if it's new also, so perhaps a box on the left with the most recent additions would be nice. I only check it once in a while for new stuff, mostly I download the PDF for the projects I'm interested in and then work with those.
Jacob
Jacob,
Thanks. I see that there is a bit of an overlapping issue in IE which will need to be fixed. I'll see if I can preview in Safari somehow, too.
I'm running an older system too, with an earlier version of Safari - version 4. I don't know if that makes a difference at all. I've not found many websites that don't work right though...
Jacob
I have safari 5.02 for windows on this pc and it looks the same as the other browsers to me. It must display differently in the older version. I've seen that happen before.
Quote from: Haberdasher on September 12, 2010, 06:20:03 PM
I have safari 5.02 for windows on this pc and it looks the same as the other browsers to me. It must display differently in the older version. I've seen that happen before.
Very true. I'm more irritated by the so-called "big" websites that don't take the extra time to debug their pages for different browsers, i.e. major news networks, corporate websites, etc. But I also never fully understood why people don't get the latest version of their browser when it's fully available and out of beta... *shrug* Diff'rent strokes fer diff'rent folks, I s'pose!
Thanks for taking the time to make sure everyone has the best user experience possible on your site, Brian.
\m/ >.< \m/
I did some tweaking yesterday and was able to improve the display on IE7, but it's still not quite right (fine on 8 and FF3 though). But, I'm pretty sure I can fix it all now....I know what the issue is (IE7 doesn't like my div layers).
looks better to me. Not sure what its supposed to look like overall, but I can read the words boost, distortion , etc. before I couldnt.
Jacob
It could be that your browser was reading them from your cache. The little banners were flipped on their side, so my guess is your browser was loading the old images into the tables which made them get squashed.
I'm still tweaking...I'll get it as perfect as possible.
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I got my boards in today! I ordered on sunday night, and they shipped monday and arrived today.
egodriver, serendipity, and sabertooth.
The boards look incredible, really thick heavy sturdy feel, plated through hole, solder mask, silk screened with parts list. I like how all the polaritys are labeled on the electrolytics, and the lugs are numbered on the pots for off board hookup. These boards seem impossibly small (in a good way). I can only imagine these will be easier and faster to build up. I haven't gotten my parts in yet to build up but as soon as I do I can't wait to jump on these.
I might actually build up the sabertooth because I have the parts laying around, I kind of wanted to do some mods to make it like the mastotron with an impedence control and a input cap switch but I might just want to build it up regular, and do a second one like the mastotron.
Having trouble ordering more than one board off the site. When I click on the "Order" option for the first board I want, the shopping cart window opens as normal. When I go to order another board the paypal log-in screen replaces the shopping cart, but when I log in I'm just in my paypal account. No more shopping cart :( anyone else having this trouble?? Eager to get cracking on some more pedals :)
Are these new boards being fabbed at the same place that the Grunts were done?
Those are HANDS DOWN the most sturdy boards I have EVER used.
I built up the serendipity, it sounds fantastic. I used jrc4558d for the op amp, I tried the OP2604AP too and it sounded a little less noisier with the "voice" cranked. I don't know that it makes that big a difference though.