Background I wanted a new project with a little more of a Eurorack focus after a couple keyboard projects and updates. I hadn’t designed a Eurorack module so far in 2024, and I find it pretty enjoyable to get involved in all parts of the design process. From understanding the circuit, the components and sub-sections, …
Author archives: Moses Hoyt
Printing Litl keyboard cases
Background I saw some really neat well designed 3d printed keyboard cases recently at an event that I went to. These cases were not the typical boxy tray-like monstrosities that you see all over the place, but instead they were intricate multi-part, somewhat organic looking and really nicely finished. Unlike most of my previous 3d …
CYOA Ortho Keyboard
Choose Your Own Adventure (or CYOA) Ortho is a keyboard that I designed and released recently under a CERN Open Hardware license. It is a simple Pro Micro compatible ortho PCB that you can freely adjust to your preferences by snapping off rows or columns to make your perfect Ortho board. The board is a …
Altoid Tin Music
I remember reading a long time ago about how Altoid tins make great little project cases for small electronic projects and I never got around to trying it out. So having a couple of hours on my hands and an Altoid tin in my hands I decided to give it a go. I’ve been playing …
PCB Design
I kind of made a New Year’s resolution in 2023 to get better, get more familiar with and ultimately relearn electronics, especially analogue electronics. I had done a lot of this before in university, but time spent not using any of these skills, nor thinking about these kind of challenges has a way of making …
Lagom 65% keyboard
After the success and launch of the Litl keyboard I wanted to try something a little more mainstream and potentially a little more challenging to design. Most people are familiar with a 65% layout with number keys and an arrow cluster, so that’s what I aimed for here. As before I wanted to keep similar …
Eurorack Power supply
I want to understand more about synthesisers and analogue electronics. Yes, technically I had studied a lot of it at university but I had also forgotten much of it, and when studying it then it wasn’t perhaps as practical and hands on as I wanted it to be. A way of doing this was to …