Skip to content
Company logo
  • Home
  • Articles
  • Projects
  • Build Logs
  • About
December 27, 2021
Articles/Projects

Designing the Onyx V1.0 Motherboard

Sometime back, I built a CNC machine based on Nikodem Bartnik’s Dremel CNC. It was an easy build, however, I felt the electronics used in the project, were a bit obsolete. The Arduino UNO and...
February 2, 2021
Articles/Build Logs

3DP- Part 2 Visual Build Log

During the pandemic, I decided to build myself a 3D printer to add another dimension to DIY projects. As for this post, here are some pictures I clicked along the way. I built this printer...
January 10, 2021
Build Logs

3DP Part 1- Building a 3D printer at home ?

The pandemic has given me plenty of time to work on projects I’ve been procrastinating for ages. Sometime back, I happened to bump into the idea of making a 3D printer after a late-night marathon...
August 3, 2020
Articles/Build Logs/Projects

CuriousPedal – Programmable Guitar Fx ! (Quick Report- Prototype 1) (in progress)

  Introduction   A conventional guitar pedal is a device that tweaks/modifies the sound from an electric guitar by adding effects such as echo, delay, distortion, etc to the original signal. There are several ways...
June 4, 2020
Projects

Simple 555 based Tremolo Effect Schematic

As of now here’s a quick schematic for the video shared on Reddit (post embedded below!). I will re-wrote this post in detail when I have time.   Reduce the value of C1 for faster...
May 18, 2020
Articles/Projects

15 Watt Guitar Amplifier using the TPA3118 Module

Recently, my Roland-cube amplifier decided to stop working amidst the pandemic. So I put together a simple amplifier to continue playing guitar during the lockdown.  Loosely speaking, every guitar amplifier has three stages- A preamplifier...
February 16, 2020
Articles

Reading between the lines- Zoom G1Xon Guitar Pedal Oscilloscope Plots

Lately, I’ve been working on a programmable guitar pedal, which involves electronic-tweaking of sound signals produced by a guitar. This time, I chose a rather more engineering-oriented approach involving a bit of research and data collection...
sound, wave, waveform-1837427.jpg
December 12, 2019
Articles

How are capacitors used to filter noise? [A unique explanation]

If you have worked with guitar pedals and audio circuits in general, you may already know how capacitors are used as low/high pass filters. While designing non-distortion guitar pedals (tremolo, reverb, delay, etc.), a designer...
guitar, pedal, electric-1595862.jpg
December 7, 2019
Articles

Distortion Pedal Electronics (Explained for beginners!)

If you are into DIY guitar pedals and want to start designing your own effects, this article might help you open a few doors. I write this article as an EE student who earlier struggled...
January 13, 2018
Articles

Unconventional Pedal Enclosures

If you’re looking for ideas/inspiration for a unique enclosure for your project, you’ve come to the right place! Ideas and pictures on this page are contributed mainly by members of DIY guitar stompboxes groups and...

Posts navigation

1 2 Next
©CuriousMotor-2021 Made with ❤️