Despite my previous misadventures in DIY electronics projects, I asked for another electronic-music kit to build myself a toy... and Santa brought it for Christmas!
It is called the "Thingamakit" by Bleep Labs. It's actually discontinued, but the new Thingamagoop 2 is not as cool-looking, only has one LED, and has some good new features, but they are not ones that I would use. Plus it's more expensive. So this was a no-brainer.
I have yet to start working on the beast, due to a plethora of projects, but I have my fingers crossed that it will be a lot of fun. Right now it's just a lot of... pieces.
I'm not too worried about the soldering and such (much less ambitious than the Theremax was), and it's nice that it includes the case, all parts, and even a variety of stickers to decorate it with. But here are the parts that bother me:
1) Every picture and video I have seen of it includes one green and one blue LEDacle (these are the little tentacle-antennae thing that shine the light into its "eyes"); however, my kit came with an orange one and a red one. What's up with that? I'm actually going to write to them and see if I can get blue and green, because red and orange are not nearly as cute and are not my style.
2) The case is just a metallic stomp-box type enclosure. I will have to measure and drill holes straight into this metal box. That is more than a little nerve-wracking.
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