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Monthly Archives: December 2011

  • Living room window bench and bookcase update: cabinet doors!

    In every project, there comes a part you just dread doing. It's always the part you put off until the very end. When programming, maybe it's that exception logging, or security interface. With most house projects, it's painting. With carpentry/cabinetry, well, I hate building cabinet doors. There. I said it. I love woodworking, but BOY do I hate doors. I know the appropriate tricks...

  • MFOS Synth 5: Trimmers and some capacitors in place

    The next step was to solder yet more components to the board. I soldered the trimmer potentiometers as well as a number of the capacitors. Over the next several months I'll be building what is definitely my most complex electronics project to date: the MFOS (Music From Outer Space) Sound Lab Ultimate, Ultimate Expander and (if Santa brings one) Sound Lab Mini-Synth Mark II, lik...

  • MFOS Synth 4: Resistors all soldered

    Phew! The resistors are all soldered. The board has a few hundred of them, so there was quite a bit of soldering. Over the next several months I'll be building what is definitely my most complex electronics project to date: the MFOS (Music From Outer Space) Sound Lab Ultimate, Ultimate Expander and (if Santa brings one) Sound Lab Mini-Synth Mark II, likely all in the same home-m...

  • Slides and Code from my VSLive Silverlight 5, REST, WCF Web API, MVC talk

    This talk was an adaptation of two chapters from Silverlight 5 in Action. I started with a brief explanation of REST, and then explained the solution we were going to build during the session. The idea was to show how you can use REST in place of the heavier Soap approach in many cases, and make your services accessible to far more clients. I also showed how to share model objects bet...

  • Announcing the Release of Silverlight 5!

    Look what just came out, and well in time to beat the Christmas rush :) Yes, it's Silverlight 5. We had originally announced that Silverlight 5 would be out by the end of this year, and I'm glad to report that it has made it in in time to give everyone something interesting to play with over the holidays. My congratulations to the engineering, marketing, support, and documentation te...

  • MFOS Synth 3: Starting the Front Panel

    In this post, I'm starting to build the front panel for my MFOS Sound Lab Ultimate analog synthesizer. Over the next several months I'll be building what is definitely my most complex electronics project to date: the MFOS (Music From Outer Space) Sound Lab Ultimate, Ultimate Expander and (if Santa brings one) Sound Lab Mini-Synth Mark II, likely all in the same home-made wooden...

  • MFOS Synth 2: Some main synthesizer board work

    In this post, I'm starting to populate the main board for my MFOS Sound Lab Ultimate analog synthesizer. Over the next several months I'll be building what is definitely my most complex electronics project to date: the MFOS (Music From Outer Space) Sound Lab Ultimate, Ultimate Expander and (if Santa brings one) Sound Lab Mini-Synth Mark II, likely all in the same home-made wood...

  • WPF 4.5: Adding a delay to your binding updates to reduce noise

    A couple weekends back, I was giving a talk on the .NET Gadgeteer, and spoke about the support for Potentiometers. Unlike some of the other modules, a potentiometer (like the volume knob on a stereo) varies so much in use that you wouldn't want to raise an event for every little change. The solution in electronics is typically to poll the pot to find its current value. Similar situati...

  • MFOS Synth 1: Built the Power Supply

    Over the next several months (3? 6? 10?) I'll be building what is definitely my most complex electronics project to date: the MFOS (Music From Outer Space) Sound Lab Ultimate, Ultimate Expander and (if Santa brings one) Sound Lab Mini-Synth Mark II, likely all in the same home-made wooden case, side by side. The Ultimate and Expander are together a 3 oscillator monophonic true analo...