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Bloody
Mar 3, 2013

cool so im thinking then:

first stage is something resembling a unity gain instrumentation amplifier with its inputs AC coupled with a half-supply virtual ground
second stage is a volume control circuit so the pot in the feedback loop of an inverting amplifier
third stage is the single-ended to differential circuit that i have now, outputs ac coupled to the inputs of the power amplifier
is it necessary to ac couple the first/second/third stages to each other with their own virtual grounds? my gut says yes because the second stage has gain so weird poo poo will happen otherwise

any value in sticking some input filtering in along the way?

Bloody fucked around with this message at 22:15 on Mar 20, 2017

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Bloody
Mar 3, 2013

okay i've reworked my front stage to be:
diff to SE around a 1/2 supply common mode
SE goes into the volume pot
SE to diff around a 1/2 supply common mode

idk if im going to put any capacitance to ground at the input nodes. might shunt some really high noise crap, i guess? starting to seem unnecessary.


i turned the crank on the output filter design appnote and some sims and have come up with 10 uH inductors and 0.33 uF caps, which i've swapped to some bigass film caps. the part datasheet has (and i copied) that 1nF shunt and 10nF/3.3ohm shunt on the output but i don't entirely understand what those are for and nothing really talks about them. are they there to further shunt the high frequency content of the PWM?

Bloody
Mar 3, 2013

i think my schematic is complete and i've got a preliminary layout routed and im probably not building this board because it's 4 layers and ~36 square inches which is gonna be ludicrously expensive anywhere (eg oshpark would be 360 dollars for 3) plus a ~$100/board bom plus chassis power supply lmao

i did make a sweet timelapse of the process tho and i only forgot to record a few bits https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tsnFSZMZUY

without the top ground plane poured it looks like:


(this is not what i would call a final layout but its most of the way there)

Bloody fucked around with this message at 07:05 on Mar 25, 2017

Bloody
Mar 3, 2013

it looks like if i bit the bullet and went to a two sided design i could probably cram this in 12 square inches which is a more tolerable price point hmm

it'd be a pain in the rear end to assemble

Bloody
Mar 3, 2013

microcontrollers are cool and good and cheap and easy

Bloody
Mar 3, 2013

unpacked robinhood posted:

tbh it was on a microcontroller forum and it was kinda my fault

i was out of pins to have the SV position hooked to the mcu so I went "well if it's not SB and SJ I'll just assume it's SV :downs:"
which is pretty good on paper until the logic crashes went it was fed a short SV when switching between the two other positions.
now i have an idiot method to decide if a position is "for real" (compare the code for the current position with the previous one a bunch of times)

it works fine now and I'm only using a small cool rear end attiny

e: also looking for advice to run 5v logic from a car. a 7805 with a diode somewhere and caps on the side ? isn't it going to heat a lot ? (expectation: the car should not catch fire)

whats the power draw of your circuit (ballpark)? if its mostly just the microcontroller, then its probably like a few milliwatts (milliamps). then the efficiency penalty of your linear regulator is basically just (output voltage)/(input voltage) and then well if your load is a few milliwatts you're probably just fine

Bloody
Mar 3, 2013

ya so its gonna burn like a few milliwatts at an LDO, no problem

Bloody
Mar 3, 2013

manhattan construction owns

Bloody
Mar 3, 2013

install diptrace

Bloody
Mar 3, 2013

the pin number limitation is total pin count. my tpa3251 board posted earlier is right under the limit

2 routing layers, but you can have planes, so you can do four layer boards. i believe you can shape route the planes although i haven't tried

also, the restrictions in general are not super robustly implemented. i've accidentally wound up with >300 pin boards in the free version that were still routable and modifiable and stuff. no idea how :iiam:

Bloody
Mar 3, 2013

i plop down the ground symbol from the symbols library (or w/e its called) then just copy-paste it around :v:

it is definitely not a replacement for the enterprise grade tools but its pdeece as an eagle alternative imo

Bloody
Mar 3, 2013

it is not saying "219 yospos bitch", voted 1

Bloody
Mar 3, 2013

wow that post is a blast from the past

Bloody
Mar 3, 2013

does it require a higher supply voltage? the class D amp i was makin with that ti part earlier itt took like a 36 or 48 or something volt supply

Bloody
Mar 3, 2013

ya pc power supplies are weird and fickle beasts

Bloody
Mar 3, 2013

https://obsproject.com/

Bloody
Mar 3, 2013

lol if you dont just buy aoyue crap

Bloody
Mar 3, 2013

flakeloaf posted:

i'm refurbing a pinball machine alone with no experience; is that the sort of thing that goes here

:ohdear: i can barely solder

what am i doing

you are in the right place

how to solder: use a lot of flux

Bloody
Mar 3, 2013

i like the liquid flux (i think its 97? partially activated? idk) in lil bottles with a needle dispenser

Bloody
Mar 3, 2013

no its probably toxic op

Bloody
Mar 3, 2013


I don't get it

Bloody
Mar 3, 2013

Who's Dan Carlin is he that comedian that died

Bloody
Mar 3, 2013

Mister Sinewave posted:

I had no idea who Dan Carlin was but could still appreciate ART, man

I am incapable of appreciating art that's 45 minutes on YouTube

Bloody
Mar 3, 2013

hand soldering a 44 qfp is not too bad just use lots of Flux and some tape as a third hand

Bloody
Mar 3, 2013

I didn't watch the thing it seemed creepy

Bloody
Mar 3, 2013

just dump it through a lil IIR filter

Bloody
Mar 3, 2013

every dma is broken at least a little

Bloody
Mar 3, 2013

Spatial posted:

i got to know the M4's DSP instructions and made the core of the mixer in assembly.

> Channel mixed in 1856 cycles (14.5 cycles/sample).

maybe i can afford reverb after all :mrgw:

sweet

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Bloody
Mar 3, 2013

haveblue posted:

sweet find. a few years ago my former neighbor threw out 3 really old macs- an se, a plus, and one other which might have been an original classic. I could only take one with me so I went with the SE for the most iconic case. it was 100% dead so I ripped all the original parts out and bashed it into a little home management/kitchen assistant thing



it runs ubuntu on an atom ITX board. the screen is a touch panel epoxied over the CRT hole. the floppy slot was expanded to 5.25" and now leads to a slot-loading DVD drive. The HD activity light is now the business end of a CueCat barcode scanner mounted in a custom cradle I'm actually quite proud of, it's made of soft packing material so just pushing a scanned item against the case gets a good read

after finishing the hardware I lost interest in the software side of the project and at this point it hasn't been plugged in in years and I don't know where its USB wifi dongle is. still like it as a slightly weird piece of decor that just gets weirder if anyone who knows about old computers takes a closer look

old computers are literal garbage. this is an excellent repurposing of one

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