It all started when I bumped into a rather unique hobby of building guitar effect pedals. In 2015, I found myself in a 20k+ member community of guitar pedal enthusiasts on Facebook. Being a teenager...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
This article is updated every week, with new ongoing developments in the project. If you like to open up old electronic appliances to see what’s inside, and salvage a few useful components, this article is...