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Coffee is for cloners.

The Atari 2600 rides again. The joystick/footswitch is really the cherry on top. Is the red button functional?

Here is the underside

Looks like there might be a solder bridge between R2 and the resistor next to it.

He's was my favorite Bond and had the coolest hair ever in Medicine Man. He will be missed. RIP

You didn't expect Mr. Bond to die? RIP

I just love these ship-in-a-bottle builds.

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Watched the first part, looking forward to watching the rest. Really liked the explanation of how different ways of connecting the backplate result in different patterns.

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How close are the smd 2n5457?
Do I need to match them?
Are they that good?

I took 2 MMBF5457s off a reel, put them in a Phase 45, and had phasing. Still looking for a sensible process for matching the thousand (minus the two) JFETs left on the reel.

Well, that's one vote for the year-end contest locked in. Certainly in the topsy-turvy world of rock and roll, having a good solid piece of extreme modulation in your pedal chain is quite often useful.

I've found I actually quite enjoy the challenge of hand-soldering SMD parts. Will have to give that chisel tip a go for sure. Here's one I prepared earlier, with a SOT-23 JFET. I have a handful of through-hole JFETs saved for a rainy day but all my own designs/layouts will use SMD JFETs from now on. This one's the Echoplex preamp - see https://github.com/rockola/pimentero - getting 3 PCBs flown in all the way from California for $1.80 is quite nice.

Paisley FTW. Here's a work in progress of mine.

Here are a few I've shared a bill with. I doubt I would have discovered any of them otherwise.

Centrozoon (& Markus Reuter)
[youtube width=400]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEa45IMt5u8[/youtube]
[youtube width=400]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXwoo2Gzl-s[/youtube]

Broadside Electric (shot with a potato)
[youtube width=400]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyrulQOC82g[/youtube]

Jim Wright
[youtube width=400]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tcasl41V2nA[/youtube]

Daniel Schell & Karo
[youtube width=400]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kh4EJVIeCe8[/youtube]

Jesús Auñón
[youtube width=400]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnbR2nOproE[/youtube]

Great haul of mushrooms! Do you have go far to search them out or is it pretty much backyard hunting?

We've got a cabin about 1 h west of Helsinki in the middle of the forest. No running water, solar panels only, but also no neighbors. That haul was the result of a 3 h walk in the forest.

What meals have you planned to use them up in and what type(s) of mushrooms are they besides the few chanterelles you mentioned?

At this time of the year there's mainly funnel chanterelles (Craterellus tubaeformis). There's a few hedgehog mushrooms (Hydnum repandum) in the basket but the season for those is all but over. I was quite disappointed that this year was not good for gypsy mushrooms (Cortinarius caperatus) which are normally quite abundant and just about my favourite mushroom. King bolete (Boletus edulis) is not revered for nothing though. A few weeks ago there were plenty of woolly milkcaps (Lactarius torminosus), they make a nice cream sauce with onion. The funnel chanterelles go in a dehydrator for future use in soups and as a spice in meatballs.

My friend gave out some sulfur shelf mushrooms to us over the weekend, unfortunately they were about 2-3 days past their prime. And I didn't find any boletes this year.

Fresh mushrooms should be handled like fresh fish, they will go off easily, some species easier than others. Apparently this year has been very good for boletes around here, I've found some, but not in great numbers.

I was so sad, I normally go up on my local mountain to raid a couple chanterelle groves I've found, but my mountain was on fire this year at peak picking time. Granted, we'd had a dry as hell summer, so it's unlikely the harvest would've been spectacular, but I always enjoyed the hike either way.

(And though the fire would likely be spectacular for morel hunting, we have way too many false morels locally for me to ever really be comfortable picking them up here, and I have a graduate degree in mycology!)

There's a handful of chanterelles in that basket, but at this time of the year you can't take two steps in a forest without hitting a funnel chanterelle patch. Found a few Hydnum repandums as well.

False morel (Gyromitra esculenta) is considered a delicacy around here. Boiling them 2-3 times for 5-10 minutes, throwing the water away each time and rinsing with fresh water in between, gets rid of practically all the gyromitrine. There's usually one or two growing at our cabin in May (sadly not this year though) for that singular false morel meal of the year. According to some sources gyromitrine accumulates in the body, so it's definitely best enjoyed well in moderation.

True morels (Morchella elata) are around too but I've only ever seen one, on the side of the busiest stretch of road in the country.

I guess I'll be having shrooms tonight.

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Lovetone, or Parasit Studio. None of that bread & butter stuff for me, please. I will have some cheese with my meatballs though, thank you.