A very personal birthday gift

[Hogharry]

Pork Barrel with added level control. A couple of years ago I started a tradition of building pedals for my son an Christmas and birthday gifts and this was one of his requests. He is currently studying for his Master's Degree in Theoretical Physics. The abstract looking graphic is in fact the output of a programme that he wrote in a computer language called Python. He says it's "a simulation of the diffraction of light through a Gaussian aperture." Fair enough. I just thought it looked nice. The top is finished with Envitotex - Marauder style.

[cooder]

Very nice and I can see the Gaussian rays beaming all the way across y6to this side of the planet.... well done!

[jimilee]

You must be too proud!

[RobA]

It looks great and it's a combination of one of my favorite pedals and programming languages.

[bcalla]

I agree, it looks very nice.  I'm impressed he has time to play music while studying for his Master's Degree in Theoretical Physics.

[m-Kresol]

Cool stuff. I approve of the science

[Leevibe]

Great job, and what an amazing thing to be able to share this with your son. He's going to love it.

[Hogharry]

I agree, it looks very nice.  I'm impressed he has time to play music while studying for his Master's Degree in Theoretical Physics.

It goes in phases: at the moment he's overloaded with study deadlines, so he just plays for short periods when he gets a chance (no time at all last week), on the other hand he gets long breaks at Christmas/Easter/Summer and plays a lot when he's home. He's lucky enough to have a big room in the house he shares - it needs to be with a rack of 5 guitars, Blackstar amp etc. etc. Oh and lots of books.

You must be too proud!

Yes indeed! In fact he was very ill and had to stay on an extra year at school, so I'm proud of him for getting to Uni at all. I don't think many people could have overcome the obstacles that he did.

It looks great and it's a combination of one of my favorite pedals and programming languages.

I don't really know anything about the programming but it's impressive the way Python can be used to set up a "virtual experiment" that allows them to alter parameters as if they were in the lab. When I read the reports he writes I can follow the science but I gave up trying to follow the maths a long time ago...