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Nice "Rocky Horror" reference on the main board. 

I like delay + reverb, or if you have a huge box, do those two plus a trem.

That looks fantastic, and that is hilarious.

Thanks!

I need to do another adjustment to the PCB and when I get those in hand I'll send you one (with a programmed chip).

After much mucking around with the TAPLFO chip, I wanted to use it with the audio portion of my near-ancient Shoot The Moon tremolo (itself derived from the Tremulus Lune). I pared down the waveform options to just 4 (of 8 in the original code). Works and sounds great. I gave this one to my guitar teacher.

I laser cut/etched a face plate from 1/16" basswood ply and stained it. Then did some fine sanding to smooth it out and pull back the color a bit.

Side note: I named it "¡Aveces!" because "sometimes there is sound, and sometimes there is not". Apparently I'm the only one that thinks this is funny. 

That's a fantastic idea! 

Just now noticing this. Holy shit, dude. I'm blown away by the engineering.

Nice. Big screen is not a bad thing.

Great build!

In my listening/testing experience, MosFET clipping (the kind with a series diode to force the fet to clip instead of the body diode) sounds a bit like LEDs but is a little bit more compressed.

Shit, just now seeing this. Hope your recovery is swift and full. Take it easy. Everybody can wait a little bit on their orders. You get better before you worry about anything else's hobby.

Happy Fathers Day to all my homies. 

Awesome stuff.
I've wondered how hard it would be to change to code to get one of those detent pots to work.

It actually works fine without a detent pot. Normal pot is okay, it's just that you have to pay attention to when the waveform changes by looking at the indicator LED. It sucks for all 8 waveforms, but if you have 5 or less, it's quite manageable. You could also use a rotary switch with some diodes to get the right voltages, or if you only want 2 or 3, you could use a simple toggle switch and diodes (or even just resistors). Again, that gets easier if you pare down the number of waveforms.

Awesome!

Looks nice! Do you have any projects in mind to use this as a platform for?

Thanks!

Yes, I have a tremolo and vibrato-phase-thing nearly complete. And I'm spitballing a filter effect and also want to use it as the modulation for a PT2399. Oh, and I want to do my own version of the 4MS Phaseur Fleur (6-stage optical).

I hesitate to call this a "dev" board because it's not really designed for rapidly testing code. It's really just for being able to diddle with the main parameters of the StompLFO from Electric Druid, which is a really cool LFO-on-a-chip with tap temp baked in. It's got 8 waveforms, including two that are pseudo-random. The code is open source, so you can modify it to suit your needs should you desire. That's beyond the scope of this post, but we could talk about that later if anyone is curious.



So this board has all the necessary components to get all the functionality out of the stock StompLFO code. And I also added a few things that make it easier to dial in and use it with some flexibility for breadboard projects or other types of circuit testing. I added two switches (using header pins and 2-pin mini jumpers) for 1) changing the microcontroller offset pin to either high or low state, and 2) bypassing or enabling a second set of LED pads that can be run off board to a breadboard or whatever. I also added a trimmer to set the minimum speed of the LFO because it can go slower than useful for some effects. Voltage regulator is also included to make it a self-sufficient package.

So that's what I've been goofing around with the last couple weeks (months, actually, if I'm being honest), among other things. I've also modified the code a bit so that the chip has only the waveforms I want and in the order I want in regards to the Wave pot sweep. Took a bit of monkeying around, but it's not real hard to do.

Also there's one other program above Eagle (don't recall the name) that has a five figure (top end) license fee, which is amazing, but maybe it's just that far ahead that Autodesk wants to cut its losses?

You might be talking about Altium. But I honestly don't think even Eagle's highest-priced option is in the same ballpark as Altium. Probably not the reason.

The likeliest reason is that they want you to migrate to Fusion360.