First Pedal build

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First Pedal build

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Had a go at the classic LBP-1 (aka the Saltbooster).
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and the result is…




…it don’t work.

I did breadboard it before hand but in the process of doing the final layout I may have mixed up some resistors or flipped the transistor or made a bad solder joint.

I was overly ambitious to make my first one so tiny.

I’m going to start over later this week this time for a normal size enclosure.
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That's cool as hell, even though it didn't work. Next one, though!
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Yeah, I like the tiny format
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Dang, you could get that bad boy under a pickguard; BOOSTIN' FROM THE GROUND FLOOR, YER BABEY
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I’m hoping to get it into a brain implant before Elon gets his to market.
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Elon seems to be interested in SS amplification, though nobody told him that it stands for solid state
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