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So I was just about to order the amazing beavis board. Then I found out they are not for sale at this time, arghhh oh well. It looked like the perfect solution for me. So I was wondering if ya'll have any detailed instructions on building a similar breakout box. I can see pretty clearly from his diagram what to get, but putting it all together is where I am kinda stuck. I basically just want to hook up my chapman Stick (guitaresque) into my breadboard. Any help on how to get a guitar type signal into the board would be quite helpful. Thanks much for the help.
Are you familiar with using a normal breadboard at all? If not, there's plenty of info at beavis and other places that can be posted if need-be. You may have seen this already, it's fairly easy to follow. The terminal strip on the right side needs to correspond with the breadboard itself...grnd,v+,in,out, etc
Basic parts rundown: Enclosure, (2)1/4" jacks, 3pdt switch, breadboard Potentiometer, 2.1mm power jack, terminal strip base board to attach everything to, (2) LEDs, (2) drop down resistors,
mcmelectronics has em in 24 guege. I also need to step my breadboard game up. I was almost gonna buy a beavis board but I want 4 jacks and its gonna be way cheaper to build it.
I want a beavis board too, i can build my own, but i feel the parts/projects/info and whatnot are what makes it the most useful to me, and probably most valuable. id rather wait till they go on sale again
Ok, so I am starting to build the beavis breakout box. Seems ok so far. Is there an alternative to the 3pdt switch? I wonder if a few spst switches combined could do the trick? I don't really know why I need a pedal switch anyways since I am just testing stuff out. Beavis said the switch doesn't switch the fx on or off anyway, but forgive my newbie ignorance here.Kinda weird I know. Also, I don't want to run it off a power supply so I want to skip the 2.1 jack if possible. I was thinking I could go direct from a 9 volt somehow? With an adaptor or something. Has anybody done something similar? Any suggestions will be great! I just really want to get my chapman Stick into the breadboard, arghhh! I have that radioshack electronic kit I'm sure ya'll know about. So that is what im using, dont make fun of me Im just starting haha! http://www.radioshack.com/product/index.jsp?productId=3814337#
Oceans wrote: Also, I don't want to run it off a power supply so I want to skip the 2.1 jack if possible. I was thinking I could go direct from a 9 volt somehow? With an adaptor or something
You could put a 9v battery clip/holder on the base board everything will be sitting on, and then run a battery-to-male jack cable. I think that's how the beavis board i really set up anyway.
Thanks ya'll. I am just working off battery power cause I am a beginner and afraid of getting shocked! So, I have all the parts ready to rock exept the 3pdt switch, its crazy that the ol radio shack didn't have em. Is there any alternative to that switch? Even if its a wonky cheepy workaround. Just wanna get started by getting my 1/4" audio cable into the board.
Do you have any other simple ways to get the guitar signal audio into the board? I'm pretty close here...
Okay, So I have some old pedals I can take apart for the switches. However, I think they are all dpdt with 3 points to solder to. I may be way off mark here but could I just combine 3 dpdt switches to equal the 9 solder points required for the 3pdt switch? I realize it would be kinda rediculous to have 3 switches but I am trying to salvage parts and just get it working. Forgive my ignorance, I appreciate ya'll bearing with me here.
Oh, and I just got the circuit bending book by Reed Ghazala. That is a well written book for peeps like me(uber newbie). I was hoping there was some details in there on getting an 1/8" or 1/4" audio input into ze breadboard. I bet Its something way easier than I am thinking haha.
By the way doxalamine succinate is the devil. NyQuil hangover is so wicked. I mean it knocks you out for sleep just fine but fracks you up the next day so BAD. Funny that stuff is legal, just a brutal chemical.
robotrip is dangerous. a friend of mine went walking through peoples yards for 8 hours and he eventually walked home when he came out of it. he said people were yelling "get off my lawn" etc..
you do not need the switch at all just wire the jacks to the terminal strip. it will be always on. the only reason a stomp switch has 9 points is one row is just for the LED.
Good lord, that would be amazing! THanks for the tip. Just to be clear tho, I wonder if you could tell me which color coded wire goes where on the terminal strip? (from the beavis picture diagram)
So, I think I am just skipping the two "sw" ports on the terminal strip. And that I am wiring the tip and sleeve to the "in and out".
just wire the in to the tip of the in jack. the out to the tip of the out jack. you wont need the switch, the switch led, or the led resistor. that other spst switch is optional too. if it was me I would put a dpdt in there as it might be more usefull. you never know what your gonna be making.
oh well. It looked like the perfect solution for me. So I was wondering if ya'll have any detailed instructions on building a similar breakout box. I can see pretty clearly from his diagram what to get, but putting it all together is where I am kinda stuck. I basically just want to hook up my chapman Stick (guitaresque) into my breadboard. Any help on how to get a guitar type signal into the board would be quite helpful. Thanks much for the help.
