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I bought a Baby Einstein Magic Touch Guitar for a friend’s daughter a couple of years ago, and while it was okay as a toy, it was disappointing as a musical instrument because the chords it plays are badly chosen. It’s basically impossible to play along with most songs.
I’ve had the back burnered idea to buy another and improve it; maybe I will now, following a variation on your approach.
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Good parenting is doing things the hard way. So why not go all in with a full set of acoustic drums?
Do you have $800? I'm trying to get my daughter a full set of acoustic drums (though odds are her brother will use them more even though he plays clarinet and she does percussion). I've seen full sets for as little as $30 - but it doesn't take much checking to realize they are not worth it even at that price. Good sets quickly cost more, but $800 is a good starting point for a set that isn't unusable.
Maybe try Facebook Marketplace, Craigslist, etc. because drum sets take up space quality drum sets and other large instruments are often priced where moving the gear is part of the payment.
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[context: I have eBay’d a couple of Pocket Operators because I was curious and the price was low enough I knew I could at least break even reselling on Reverb even after fees and shipping…This is how I rationalize my gas.] Maybe buy one and if it is not for you be ok reselling it at a loss…framing it as renting an instrument helps me. The Pocket Operators are musical and inexpensive for musical instruments. Like any…
The pocket operators have kind of 'grown up' and now they are doing a larger format thingie that is kinda like a pocket operator: https://teenage.engineering/products/ep I especially like the bardcore one: https://teenage.engineering/products/ep-1320
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If I may submit an extremely pedantic music nerd bug report: at 46s in the video demo (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qboig3a0YS0&t=46s), the display should read Bb instead of A#, as the key of C minor is written with flats :)
(The precise rule is that a diatonic scale must use each letter name for exactly one note, e.g. you can't have both G and G# in the same key, and you can't skip B. This has many important properties that make music easier to read and reason about, such as allowing written music to specify "all the E's, A's, and B's are flat" once at the start of the piece instead of having to clutter the page with redundant sharps or flats everywhere.)
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They -are- decent modular chunks. They have a bit of opinion pushing you in certain directions as far as sound goes. Each one does a pretty limited set of things and combining them can be annoying. But you get a lot for the money you spend on them.
combining them can be annoying The strong design opinions about how the Pocket Operators interact with other musical gear are a big part of why I haven’t had high enthusiasm for using the small PO’s when I’ve had small PO’s. For me, Volca’s are a similar ecosystem but to a lesser extent…maybe because the Monotrons sit lower in Korg’s product portfolio while the PO’s are rock bottom of TE’s product line.
What an awesome project. It looks fabulous! Reminds me of the Dato Duo I have. The "Dato Duo" is also a synth aimed at kids. It allows 2 kids to play together. it is made by a Dutch company called Dato ( https://dato.mu ). Their latest musical invention the "Dato Drum" had a successful Kickstarter and is shipping now. This drum machine allows even more kids to play together. PS: As the owner of a Dato Duo I can share…
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As a hobbyist, I have had a good experience using EasyEDA [0]. It's free to use, with the caveat that you are pretty locked in to their PCB ordering service from China. However, pricing is crazy good, like Regarding your mental model, it's more like a 2-step process. First, you draw the netlist, which is the electrical circuit diagram. It's this stage you ensure there are no short-circuits, etc. Then in the second st…
Does EasyEDA not allow you to download gerber files anymore? Gerbers are universal and you'd be able to send them to any fab you wanted. Obviously EasyEDA being sponsored by JLC means they make it easy to order through JLC.
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