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After considering it for ages I finally dared to mod my volca beat and solder a capacitor on the (in)famous C78 solder point, to fix the snare sound.

The solder pads are REALLY tiny and solding smd stuff is WAAAAY outside my comfort-zone, but it was totaly worth it. The snare sounds a lot more 808-ty and I really like it.

Unfortunately I forgot to shorten the wires on the capacitor as you can see in the photo, so I used a bit of tape to prevent the wires from shorting something on the board (and I will absolutely not unsolder and resolder it :-) )

A detailed description how to mod the volca beat can be found on hackaday at

https://hackaday.io/project/9863-korg-volca-beats-2-standart-mods

I build a small scratchingpost from scratch (sorry could not resist :-) ) to prevent my cats from scratching on my chair. I used scrap materials I had lying around and it only took me a view minutes.

These are the materials I used:

• a piece of wood for the base (I used the remains of an old cat-tree)
• a cardboard can (from müsli, potatochips, ...)
• a screw, a washer and a nut
• a sisal-clothsline
• some doublesided stickytape
• small rubberfeed

For my Day 29 project of 30DaysOfCreativity I wanted to make something I never made before - so I decided to sew a T-Shirt.

Since I had no clue how to do it, I made a plan

This plan turned out to be a bit naive (very soon) - so I tried another aproach involiving scissors and a sewing machine.

I'm still quite sure not to turn into a tailor any time soon, but the result is far better than anything I hoped for

I got an archos101 recently, but couldn't find a case for it. Mom to the rescue! My mom doesn't only weave - she also sews very well. So she made me a custom case for my tablet :-) Here is a little gallery of my tablet case in the making

I am currently attending a course in "Austrian Signing Language", so i made a notepad to draw the signs without having to draw the body and the head again and again (note: most programmers are lazy)

get the pdf here, print some copies and cut them in half. if you want you can also glue them together on the top.

i release this graphics as freeware, but it would be nice if you drop me a note if you use them.