We made our own Eurorack modules. From scratch! 

John Jameson - Me too me too!! Absolutely would be so insightful, helpful and BADASS... Do it do it do it do it

Same here. I think the circuit layout is the most interesting part.

Same here! 🤩

Kirill HA! The great Dremel mishap of early-2018. When a certain someone accidentally drilled a hole clean through his ESD mat (and workbench) whilst routing a hole. :)

That cumbersome jerk

I've had a recent mouse problem and my subconscious was evaluating that spot as a mouse or rat dropping.

Thanks for watching, Ben!

Thanks Prophei. And thanks for providing feedback during our various beta tests.

It seems like you’re well on your way. Keep going!

It can definitely be expensive if you just want to hire and engineer to deliver the design. What you might try is finding a good engineer and becoming co-owners in the business. That way you can really focus on product design/business/marketing etc. and let the other person focus on engineer/manufacturing/etc. It works well if you can find a good business partner.

Stencils usually get made by the PCB assembly house as part of the process and the house holds on to them in case you need to re-order parts. I had ones made for me so I could learn how to work with paste and reflow ovens. I got them from OSH Park in the US. There are places in China that will do it for cheaper.

Thanks Leo! i will see if i can manage to get a hold of them, in the meantime i will also hear your module (i'm just getting into modular bits and am quite lost..)

Thanks for watching!

Hey Steeve this is Teo from Strange Science. I've been using some eBay bought cheap-o dual-output power converters for the prototyping. For example, see www.ebay.com/itm/5V-6V-9V-10V-12V-15V-24V-Positive-Negative-DC-DC-Boost-Buck-Converter/183522672409?_trkparms=aid%3D222007%26algo%3DSIM.MBE%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D20131231084308%26meid%3Dd8157f02ff70434aadf124475b3fa813%26pid%3D100010%26rk%3D3%26rkt%3D12%26sd%3D113008071548%26itm%3D183522672409&_trksid=p2047675.c100010.m2109 Not exactly the one I was using but should do the trick. The output from these can be noisy and not very well regulated so you may want to follow these with positive and negative linear regulators.

Thanks for watching. We worked with a company called Shaeffer AG in Germany. Their US branch is called Front Panel Express. The quality of their work has always been excellent. Best of luck with your 500-series products!

@@LeoMakes i took a look at the website . I guess germany is the best choice since i live in the netherlands... thank you again for taking the time to reply.. 👍

Thanks for watching (and subscribing)!

Not true. Tons of through-hole boards use pick-and-place / reflow solder. DIP ICs and leaded resistors and capacitors usually can be inserted and soldered by machine. However, there's a few reasons why this board wouldn't. 1) the through-hole parts are very big so they're not compatible with pick-and-place. 2) The through-hole parts have plastic and would melt in a reflow. 3) There's very few through-hole parts so it's not worth the cost of setting up a 2nd through-hole process for the board. 4) If a board has both surface-mount and through-hole components, it gets much trickier so the flow for one doesn't mess up the parts from the other because of different reflow temperatures, etc. p.s. - back at a previous company I worked for, I used to love watching the pick-and-place machines. It's amazing how fast they go.

Yeah, great content, I've often wondered how these are mass produced. But also that cheesy music is over the top & out of place. I would think music created via these modules would be better marketing.

Look up wave soldering. Through hole doesn't necessarily have to be hand soldered, but it can be. Kind of depends on the volumes in question I'd imagine. For smaller runs like a lot of really boutique synth stuff, it might just be more worthwhile to have the boards made but assemble and solder them in house. /Rambleramble

@G Yes I got into it as the video evolved. I find beat oriented music to be too distracting in these kinds of informational videos so this was a nice fit. I think it is a good choice and a great way for this talented person to share another side of his creativity. Well done.

Dreux Donelan It’s pronounced ‘solder’ in the UK. It seems it’s only North America that say sodder

Dreux Donelan solder HAS an ‘L’, so should make annotations easier*... FWIW, I’m a yankee and I too pronounce the ‘L’ and appreciate it when others do as well. BUT I certainly don’t care at ALL when say it with the silent L... I’m pretty sure the OP knows what he’s doing and does not need to you to tell him how to pronounce a word he very clearly & obviously has a very solid understanding of and experience with... Not like he actually brought a *real product* to life from conception to incubation to realization or anything... Ohhh waitttt.... Sorry for being rude, but to someone who clearly knows what they’re doing, your comment can only be interpreted in a negative way or at the very ‘best’ be off-putting..

www.schaeffer-ag.de at the moment. May switch to their US subsidiary (frontpanelexpress.com) in future runs.

Ah... thought it might be FPE based on the engravings. They do great work. Just down the road from us in Seattle. Your panels look great!

uh what? lol

Magneto Cancels!

Thanks! We did our best to keep the depth down as much as possible but 62mm was the limit with all the electronics and layout that we wanted to use. It will fit many cases but, as you say, skiffs may not have enough clearance.

Yes! We design and manufacture our products in the US, where Strange Science Instruments is based. I'm not sure I understand your comment.