I still remember back in 1984, when talking about the same-titled Orwell novel, pundits were confidently declaring that such a surveillance state couldn't happen simply due to the sheer manpower required to monitor everyone in real-time.
"...growing demand for cloud services and for artificial intelligence literacy programs..." -- Artificial intelligence literacy? What does that even mean?
Dear #synthdiy Mastodon: I have an NLC Squid Axon with a burnt component (I’m guessing a capacitor from the shape). I really want to get this fixed, but have never picked up a soldering iron.
Is it doable for me to fix this myself given my lack of electronics experience? What’s the minimum I would need to know?
I’d like to be able to attain a sufficient skill set to repair my modules, but not sure what the most efficient way to go about that.
This is a 10R resistor which gave up its life to save the rest of the module. It was there exactly for when someone got their stripe the wrong way round.
How do I know? I looked at the NLC build guide for the squid axon.
Normally this task is undertaken by a diode, btw.
Should be straightforward to repair.
The difficult bit is desoldering it without ending up with a blocked hole. (Lol).
Fwiw I taught myself to solder this year, and if a shaky handed old git like me can do it, anyone can.
I use a miniware ts101 iron. Make sure you've got good light and a magnifier. Practice first. (you can buy practice kits on eBay).
Buy yourself a basic set of decent tools too.
The ai synthesis guy has a nice page on DIY, with suggestions for a base toolset https://aisynthesis.com/how-to-get-started-in-synth-diy/
Going through some old drives, found an unreleased Morcheeba remix we did as The Soundmakers, also The Crown Jewels parts 1 and 2, The Wreckshop plus some very
y old Assembly Worker beats (my old alias).