stella amp

First off, I'm starting something new. I've arranged with a friend of mine to pre-build some Stella Amp kits! So for an extra assembly fee, you can get the board pre-soldered. All the wires and potentiometers and such are not soldered. If you want one of these you will still have to solder on the pots and the input jack and the like. If you are unsure of your soldering skills or if you just want to save yourself some time, you can pick one of these up.

ryugreen put up an awesome post-build (with pictures!) on the Stella Amp forum, go check it out!

Where the amp really shined for me was when I plugged in my korg synth. It's a batter poweredc portable synth, and combining the two gives me a great portability for an electronic instrument. It has plenty of volume and with the 6.5" two way i used, lots of bass and mids to help out with the range of the synth. Very impressed.

One thing I like about hand drills is that I can pause the action whenever I need to in order to take a picture:

This is one of the amps that I took with me to the Maker Faire.

Wow! I'm still amazed, and I'm not sure how to write about it. But it's been two weeks since the Minne Maker Faire and this post is getting long overdue!

My family and I are moving to a new place in a couple of weeks! It's exciting and stressful and too much work all at once but what can be done. The new place is awesome, we'll have a backyard for the kids, with a tree house and a slide, and the folks we are renting from seem great.

I gotta hand it to Fender, these new amplifier designs are amazing:

I wouldn't mind building one of those for myself.

Just posted a tutorial on how to mount the pots and the LED for a cigar box Stella amp build. Let me know what you think!

I just put up a quick page on how to mount a speaker to a cigar box if you are making a cigar box amplifier. All you need is a drill, a couple of bits, a screwdriver, and pliers.

But when I'm up visiting my mom for Thanksgiving, I can turn it up to 11: