{"id":6389,"date":"2004-06-24T21:43:00","date_gmt":"2004-06-25T01:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2004\/06\/24\/6389\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T11:32:37","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T15:32:37","slug":"6389","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2004\/06\/24\/6389\/","title":{"rendered":"!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nuxx.net\/albums\/paia_fatman\/DCP_1551.sized.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nuxx.net\/albums\/paia_fatman\/DCP_1551.sized.jpg\"><\/a><br \/>Click for more&#8230;<\/center><\/p>\n<p>Well, it&#8217;s finally done. I got the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paia.com\/fatman.htm\">PAiA FatMan<\/a> finished. yay! It turns out that the problems with it were related to a bad EPROM, the bit that holds the program for the MIDI to CV conversion. I got a replacement chip, and everything was (eventually) good. There were only a few additional bumps, namely the replacement chip having it&#8217;s pins <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nuxx.net\/gallery\/paia_fatman\/DCP_1547\">bent as hell<\/a>. Fortunately it made it here, as the package it was in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nuxx.net\/gallery\/paia_fatman\/DCP_1546\">hadn&#8217;t been sealed<\/a>. But, it&#8217;s here, assembled, and all is good. Take a look at just over a page of wonderful construction pictures <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nuxx.net\/gallery\/paia_fatman\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Or, there&#8217;s a few treats for you to listen to. Namely&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&middot; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nuxx.net\/files\/fatman_jam.mp3\">PAiA FatMan Filter Jam<\/a> (Just some random filter masturbation&#8230;)<br \/>\n&middot; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nuxx.net\/files\/SMB2_fatman.mp3\">Eric playing the Super Mario Brothers 2 Theme Song<\/a><\/p>\n<p>So, yeah. It&#8217;s done. I&#8217;m all happy about it and stuff. Now, as long as it gets good use and happy tunes are made with it, well, woo!<\/p>\n<p>Also, it makes a surprising variety of sounds. You can tune it all different, have the two oscillators offset by all sorts of nifty amounts, all sorts of neat wacky filter goodness, etc.<\/p>\n<p>Now, time for Luna! Woo!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Click for more&#8230; Well, it&#8217;s finally done. I got the PAiA FatMan finished. yay! It turns out that the problems with it were related to a bad EPROM, the bit that holds the program for the MIDI to CV conversion. I got a replacement chip, and everything was (eventually) good. There were only a few\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,11,34,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electronics","category-making-things","category-moved-from-livejournal","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6389"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15241,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6389\/revisions\/15241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}