Been having far too much fun building and programming these pedals.

Reply to Been having far too much fun building and programming these pedals. on Sun, 04 Oct 2026 06:59:05 GMT

jwcph@helvede.net — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 06:59:05 GMT

@optilude Thank you, but that last paragraph, especially the phrase "program it" just does too much heavy lifting

The AI idea is out; even if I didn't disapprove of this area for 1000 ethical reasons, my approach to making is that I want to "know what's inside", to understand how it works - e.g. when I built that A/B pedal I re-constructed the entire circuit in a simulator app before doing a single solder... Here's the terrible, janky project https://makertube.net/w/ukvR6Z9kHwv3e9JkDkLRpX

Reply to Been having far too much fun building and programming these pedals. on Sun, 04 Oct 2026 06:38:26 GMT

optilude@techhub.social — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 06:38:26 GMT

@jwcph it’s less difficult than you may think.

Order the PCB from JLCPCB with the “gerber” files provided.

Order the enclosure and other bits from Tayda Electronics / Amazon.

Solder a handful of bits and assemble.

Install Daisy Seed (the brains of the whole thing) and program it over USB. With some AI coding tools (eg Claude Code or Github Copilot - paid tiers) you don’t need to know how to write DSP/audio code.

https://github.com/bkshepherd/DaisySeedProjects/blob/main/Software/GuitarPedal/USER_MANUAL_125B.md

Reply to Been having far too much fun building and programming these pedals. on Sat, 03 Oct 2026 20:54:21 GMT

jwcph@helvede.net — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 20:54:21 GMT

@optilude That is so cool! I'll probably never put in the time to learn how to do this, especially considering how much I struggled building a simple A/B switch but I'd pay good money to anyone who would put a reasonable facsimile of the Bertom Denoiser plugin inside a pedal...