{"id":1587,"date":"2010-09-25T13:35:40","date_gmt":"2010-09-25T21:35:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/25\/weapon-of-choice"},"modified":"2010-09-25T13:35:40","modified_gmt":"2010-09-25T21:35:40","slug":"weapon-of-choice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/25\/weapon-of-choice","title":{"rendered":"Weapon of Choice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I finished my x0xb0x today. Yes, it sounds like a 303.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Finished x0xB0x by Adam Schabtach, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/studionebula\/5024198242\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Finished x0xB0x\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4130\/5024198242_226711f864.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Altogether it&#8217;s a pretty easy kit to build, although it does have a lot of parts. Building it reminded me how much more labor-intensive working with through-hole parts is compared to building something with SMT. I did make one change: I bought some longer LED standoffs because the 0.25&#8243; standoffs that come with the kit position the LEDs almost flush with the panel, and I personally don&#8217;t like the way that looks. I also bought some nicer-looking knobs but they turned out to not work because their D-shaft orientation is opposite that of the x0xb0x&#8217;s pots. (Is there a convention for such things? One would think so.)<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve gone through only a small part of its features but so far it works the way it&#8217;s supposed to. I was somewhat startled to discover how badly it bogs down as you turn the Tempo knob. I suppose I could download the source code and try to fix it, but, well, there are things I&#8217;d rather do&#8211;like just using the thing, for example.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I finished my x0xb0x today. Yes, it sounds like a 303. Altogether it&#8217;s a pretty easy kit to build, although it does have a lot of parts. Building it reminded me how much more labor-intensive working with through-hole parts is compared to building something with SMT. I did make one change: I bought some longer&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/25\/weapon-of-choice\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Weapon of Choice<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-studio-nebula","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1587\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}