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Turning an Old Toy into an Eurorack Drum Module

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In this video I turn the circuit board from an old toy into an eurorack drum module.
Thanks to Spenny for letting me use some of his footage in the video!
Check out his KZread channel: ‪@SpennyDubz‬
For more projects like this check out my website: sandelinos.me
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  • @agentmith
    @agentmith Жыл бұрын

    This is exactly the kind of video I needed to see in order to wrap my head around a bunch of stalled projects. This is great, please do more videos! I’m curious about that DIY filter you have in the eurorack too.

  • @SandelinosDIY

    @SandelinosDIY

    Жыл бұрын

    The filter is my stripboard version of Kassutronics' KS-20 filter. If you want to build one you can find the stripboard layout on my website: sandelinos.com/diy/ks-20-filter

  • @Skootavision

    @Skootavision

    Жыл бұрын

    Same exactly!

  • @Beardqt

    @Beardqt

    6 ай бұрын

    @@Skootavision lol I keep seeing your username on every single video I end up on so we must be some sort of youtube twins, which is creepy so I'm gonna pretend it doesn't happen now

  • @oasntet
    @oasntet10 ай бұрын

    Very nice! I did a bunch of circuit-bending like a decade ago, and got into diy eurorack stuff this last year, and this seems like a very straightforward way to merge the two. A lot of devices have a playback speed resistor that can be replaced with a potentiometer, but if it's actually part of voltage divider it might be very easy to add CV. Even if not, a vactrol could do the job, too, if a little less cleanly. Those animal noises often get really interesting at low speeds.

  • @scruffycatstudios
    @scruffycatstudios3 ай бұрын

    Nicely done! Especially liked the work you did cutting everything down to what looks like 8HP? Brilliant!

  • @boriscat1999
    @boriscat1999 Жыл бұрын

    That Sony looks like it was a pretty cool toy back in the day. Your hack made for a very usable module, lofi drums and crazy sounds. Love it!

  • @MeeBilt
    @MeeBilt Жыл бұрын

    Great work and a really cool project! 😊👍

  • @dtharmo
    @dtharmo Жыл бұрын

    Wow great explanation, really enjoyed from start to end, you did some awesome job there!

  • @channelite
    @channelite Жыл бұрын

    Really cool to watch you build this. Awesome video!

  • @verdielg
    @verdielg Жыл бұрын

    This was awesome to watch and so cool. Wish I had your electronic smarts. Brilliant adaptation!

  • @PnPModular
    @PnPModular Жыл бұрын

    Excellent video love how you show the process for creating the schematic really useful!!

  • @distantcomets
    @distantcomets Жыл бұрын

    My god, that's badass! Congrats!

  • @Brumata
    @Brumata Жыл бұрын

    Great tutorial. Cool project! 👍

  • @lorencarlin2087
    @lorencarlin20878 ай бұрын

    Just, WOW! So much time and energy involved. While easily duplicated with readily available drum machines, I'm forever in awe of those who can create their own stuff. Kudos!

  • @richardf3327
    @richardf3327 Жыл бұрын

    Great video, thanks.

  • @HumbleInitiative
    @HumbleInitiative Жыл бұрын

    You’re a master at this!

  • @indigocotton4187
    @indigocotton4187 Жыл бұрын

    A real life wizard ! Very interesting to watch. 👍

  • @dillipphunbar7924
    @dillipphunbar7924 Жыл бұрын

    Cleverly done and demonstrated. subbed

  • @Soundbrigade
    @Soundbrigade Жыл бұрын

    So cool! There are tons of musical toys that should be able to modify and adjust to make into synth modules.

  • @benjiaomodular
    @benjiaomodular Жыл бұрын

    Very nice 👌

  • @MegaDbase
    @MegaDbase Жыл бұрын

    Great job

  • @glauciogv5225
    @glauciogv52253 ай бұрын

    Good job !

  • @KeritechElectronics
    @KeritechElectronics Жыл бұрын

    Look, mum! It meows! And no computer. Nice project :)

  • @ArtSproul

    @ArtSproul

    5 ай бұрын

    I see what you did there ;-)

  • @majordabalert
    @majordabalert Жыл бұрын

    So sick. Love the song at 20 mins too

  • @abominablemusic
    @abominablemusic Жыл бұрын

    your knowledge is impressive, nice one!

  • @AlexBarnDavis
    @AlexBarnDavis Жыл бұрын

    You got my sub. Keep this crazy shit coming. You have the funnies working for ya

  • @Gin-toki
    @Gin-toki Жыл бұрын

    Great little projekt and great execution! :) For drilling larger round holes in thin plates I can highly reccommend step drills, they leave almost perfectly round holes compared to regular twist drills which have a tendency to make tribular shaped holes aswell as grapping the thin sheet metal. Moreso when hand drilling those holes.

  • @SandelinosDIY

    @SandelinosDIY

    Жыл бұрын

    Thanks for the recommendation!

  • @MirlitronOne
    @MirlitronOne Жыл бұрын

    Love the animal noises option. Good job!

  • @outaspaceman
    @outaspaceman6 ай бұрын

    Thank you for doing the thinking bit on my next project, adding triggers to a novelty Calculator/DrumKit..🙏

  • @Justin-TPG
    @Justin-TPG Жыл бұрын

    I hoped you kept the most important feature and I was not disappointed

  • @synaesmedia
    @synaesmedia Жыл бұрын

    Very nicely explained

  • @luanaleobas5858
    @luanaleobas58586 ай бұрын

    This is geniusssss!!! 😭

  • @unsoundmethodology
    @unsoundmethodology Жыл бұрын

    Nice! I did this same thing a while back with one of those toy drum kits with the roll-up rubber pads, but mine is kind of a poorly documented hack. You've done a fantastic tutorial here.

  • @SandelinosDIY

    @SandelinosDIY

    Жыл бұрын

    That's awesome. Is this one yours? old.reddit.com/r/synthdiy/comments/zls7pw . Do you have a sound demo of it anywhere?

  • @unsoundmethodology

    @unsoundmethodology

    Жыл бұрын

    @@SandelinosDIY Yup, that's the one! I haven't actually recorded a demo for it - I should really do that.

  • @SandelinosDIY

    @SandelinosDIY

    Жыл бұрын

    @@unsoundmethodology I'd love to hear it

  • @tcdontplay4914
    @tcdontplay4914 Жыл бұрын

    love this! 🎉

  • @VagPoop_
    @VagPoop_ Жыл бұрын

    💅 fabulous

  • @Ouefdie
    @Ouefdie Жыл бұрын

    Oh, very nice i was just recently wondering how to trigger buttons with CV! Thank you for htis video!

  • @sub-jec-tiv
    @sub-jec-tiv Жыл бұрын

    You are a cool MF 🤘💖 . The sounds are perfect “low-fi 1990” drum sounds

  • @danielkibbee1907
    @danielkibbee1907 Жыл бұрын

    Really cool. Was so hoping you were gonna hit that switch after programming the drums...❤🔥❤️

  • @SkullDraizer
    @SkullDraizer Жыл бұрын

    I like the resistor insertion special effect.

  • @danieloberhoff1
    @danieloberhoff1 Жыл бұрын

    very cool 😀

  • @I_Stern
    @I_Stern Жыл бұрын

    Interesting Site you have. Will keep me busy for next couple of weeks. ❤️👍

  • @maxpatzelt8314
    @maxpatzelt8314 Жыл бұрын

    Love it

  • @ShaggyMummy
    @ShaggyMummy Жыл бұрын

    amazing

  • @flourfree2K
    @flourfree2K Жыл бұрын

    Now I need to find a Sony TCM 4040!

  • @fredscallietsoundman9701
    @fredscallietsoundman97014 ай бұрын

    Amazing module ! When do you start shipping them out ?

  • @justincatterall9597
    @justincatterall9597 Жыл бұрын

    Brilliant work. I wish I understood electronics better than I do; I'd love to have a go at something like this. Looking at the reverse of the original PCB, I bet that second IC has a lot more sounds on it than the 8 you're using... though I'm not sure how you'd get access to them.

  • @FrikiObsoleto
    @FrikiObsoleto7 ай бұрын

    32:42 a sampling mode very Jean Jacques Perrey.

  • @nelsoncolereis4058
    @nelsoncolereis4058 Жыл бұрын

    Nice! There might also be a resistor controlling the pitch on the circuit board. If you replace that for a pot you can also control the pitch of the drums/samples.

  • @SandelinosDIY

    @SandelinosDIY

    Жыл бұрын

    This board uses a crystal for the clock so there is no pitch resistor here. I do have some other toy PCBs that do have pitch resistors that I might feature in a future video though.

  • @peladofreak
    @peladofreak Жыл бұрын

    great video thanks, would be great to have a tutorial for begginers to know how to indetify the initals pins to run the extracted board, also i want to do the same with a casiotone mt-70 that i keept for a long time, and dont know how :/ thanks a lot again!

  • @iamsushi1056
    @iamsushi1056 Жыл бұрын

    Why not add in some transistors to make the animal/drum switch voltage controllable? Then you could use a 3 position switch for manual override drums/cv or gate signal controlled/manual override animal sounds.

  • @SandelinosDIY

    @SandelinosDIY

    Жыл бұрын

    This definitely would've been possible. I just didn't decide to do it because I didn't feel the need for it personally. BTW here's another way to do it without a 3-way switch with an XOR gate: url.sandelinos.com/animalinstswitch

  • @leveaudor8577
    @leveaudor85779 ай бұрын

    cyriak energies

  • @HenricWallmark
    @HenricWallmark6 ай бұрын

    Great! How come you didnt replace the toggle with cv changeable so you could flip between animal and drum on the fly?

  • @richardf3327
    @richardf3327 Жыл бұрын

    Can I ask - what soldering iron are you using (my next upgrade maybe. I'm using a TS100 atm

  • @barrycullen1032
    @barrycullen1032 Жыл бұрын

    Would this 'transistor trigger' approach work with a PNP if the IC chip wanted the pin to go high?

  • @SandelinosDIY

    @SandelinosDIY

    Жыл бұрын

    Yes but due to the nature of the PNP you'll have to add an inverting circuit in front of it. Here is the circuit I would use to trigger a toy that needs it's pins pulled up: url.sandelinos.com/invertedtoytrigger

  • @barrycullen1032

    @barrycullen1032

    Жыл бұрын

    @@SandelinosDIY thanks for sharing that. Very kind of you.

  • @gizzyrecords9194
    @gizzyrecords91947 ай бұрын

    What power supply are you using?

  • @rautshsale1948
    @rautshsale1948 Жыл бұрын

    btw, what's the case? how / out of what is it made? seems very rudimentary, but i like it a lot

  • @SandelinosDIY

    @SandelinosDIY

    Жыл бұрын

    It's built out of old Eurocard (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurocard_(printed_circuit_board) ) racks I got for cheap 2nd hand.

  • @cristianz8021
    @cristianz8021 Жыл бұрын

    ian curtis vibe

  • @iamsushi1056
    @iamsushi1056 Жыл бұрын

    I noticed you’re using trs patch cables, even though eurorack traditionally runs on ts jacks. Why?

  • @SandelinosDIY

    @SandelinosDIY

    Жыл бұрын

    I got a bunch of these TRS to serial cables(url.sandelinos.com/trsserial ) for free so I soldered patch cables out of them.

  • @TheGreatDP
    @TheGreatDP Жыл бұрын

    What was the circuit design software you used?

  • @SandelinosDIY

    @SandelinosDIY

    Жыл бұрын

    KiCad! It's awesome and it's free and open source.

  • @erickvond6825
    @erickvond6825 Жыл бұрын

    I think if it were me, I'd have simply recreated the circuit on the strip board.

  • @philip6252

    @philip6252

    4 күн бұрын

    Wasn’t you, though. Was it?

  • @erickvond6825

    @erickvond6825

    4 күн бұрын

    @@philip6252 You know what, your right. At least what I posted was constructive criticism. What a sad and shameful life you must live to have to go around pointing out everyone else's faults to make yourself feel better. Pitiful....

  • @switchon1325
    @switchon13255 ай бұрын

    lol, pitch mods now

  • @user-jb6mr7cw6k
    @user-jb6mr7cw6k7 ай бұрын

    nice nails

  • @apollorobb
    @apollorobb Жыл бұрын

    And next we paint our finger nails like our sister

  • @Mikere5
    @Mikere510 ай бұрын

    You are wearing fingernail polish ......hmmmm