The Seven Year Project / Paint Pen Graphics

[Paul Marossy]

I am very happy, I got my Boss Slow Gear clone working after seven years have passed! Really love it, it suits my style very well. Anyway, I initially built it over seven years ago but never got it to work, was baffled. Every time I would go into my drawer of decommissioned circuit boards for something, I would see that in there and want to get it working because it's the only thing I never got to work from a verified PCB layout. So I discovered that I had one electrolytic cap in backwards and that was the problem. Feel dumb now, but the polarities on the PCB weren't marked and I just got that one wrong.

So I put the thing in a really old enclosure that I made for some of my first DIY projects. It's had at least four different things in it now.   As you can see, it's a very tight fit, but I like using the smallest possible enclosures and ditching the battery. The PCB is protected by a sheet of plastic very similar to what you find in a Boss pedal when you take off the bottom plate. Since I can't do graphics the way I used to and I've gotten more lazy/short on spare time, I decided to just do paint pen graphics on it. I kind of like the look of it, sort of artsy. I did several years of board drafting so I have fairly decent lettering abilities. Just an idea for others who might have pretty good handwriting abilities and want to do something besides whatever color with black lettering on it.

[midwayfair]

Congrats, man. It's a great feeling when something works after days fo trouble shooting. I can't imagine what a relief it is after seven years!  

p.s. Dig the gold sharpie on it.

[Paul Marossy]

Yeah, I didn't think about it much the last seven years, maybe like once or twice a year. Anyway, I used these gold paint pens that are at Michaels (craft store). I like the gold on black look, I also use it for the flyBOBs that I make for people.