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PO-80 Record Factory

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Re: PO-80 Record Factory

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It's a shame he doesn't do many BOLTRs anymore. His output slowly petered out during COVID.

I think he got enough patreon types that he basically moved all his effort over there. He bought a CNC machine for the channel and then focused on the people who gave him the money for it.

Yea, that CNC machine kind of killed the YouTube channel IMHO

Re: PO-80 Record Factory

#92
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It looks like it has countersunk screw holes, so that would usually be done on a CNC punch: http://www.vandf.co.uk/tooling/what-is-cnc-punching/ (amazing machines) It also looks powder-coated... when you consider their likely volumes $195 is not unreasonable once you take into account development costs, setup costs and overheads.

Not discounting the coolness of CNC punching whatsoever, but the reasonableness of $195 is way off, even if they are manufacturing in low volumes domestically. Parts like this should ideally be manufactured via stamping, which would also produce any countersinks needed. Even better would be to have them cut and bent in a progressive die (also a super cool manufacturing process!) and would have all cuts and features d…

Totally agree, they're getting these for a few bucks a part,maybe 10 bucks total for the kit. If they're paying any more they should not be.

Re: PO-80 Record Factory

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post #27

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It looks like it has countersunk screw holes, so that would usually be done on a CNC punch: http://www.vandf.co.uk/tooling/what-is-cnc-punching/ (amazing machines) It also looks powder-coated... when you consider their likely volumes $195 is not unreasonable once you take into account development costs, setup costs and overheads.

Not discounting the coolness of CNC punching whatsoever, but the reasonableness of $195 is way off, even if they are manufacturing in low volumes domestically. Parts like this should ideally be manufactured via stamping, which would also produce any countersinks needed. Even better would be to have them cut and bent in a progressive die (also a super cool manufacturing process!) and would have all cuts and features d…

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Re: PO-80 Record Factory

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Yeah but the manga version is 6.6GB

Okay, now I'm curious, link to the manga version?

This manga is part of the variety art works series which transcribes (transdraws?) important literary works for younger japanese who might not have the understanding yet to read them in their orig. translation.

You can find a list of series here: https://myanimelist.net/people/21441/Variety_Art_Works

Edit: This is the same series that includes mein kampf and capital, both which have had many panels screenshotted you can find around the net circulating (f.e. if you'we ever met a mangaised Marx, or some weird collection of nazi's illustrated they are quite common tropes)

Re: PO-80 Record Factory

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> I'm not creative/musical/rich enough to justify buying an OP-1. If I ever was, though... Digitone/Digitakt/Syntakt are much better at high but still lower than OP-1 price while still being very playable On the entirely other side, Korg Volcas are pretty cheap and fun little devices, few other companies also make similarly priced and sized ones. And lastly, cheap midi keyboard and just software synths are cheapest o…

I think the Korg Minilogue xd is the best synth for the price. I also have several pocket operators, an Elektron Model:Samples (eh), and I’m borrowing my friend’s Volca Modular (which is pretty sweet).

If you need/want something all in one with keyboard yeah that's a decent choice. Throw some drums (I got TR-6S) and it's all you need really. They also have wavestate and opsix in similar price range. Funnily enough those two are powered by raspberry Pi CM

Microfreak is kinda cool and almost half the price of that but it's keyboard is both advantage and disadvantage.

Yamaha's reface series is also kinda interesting.

I wish some company would just release a midi keyboard with some knobs, buttons and screens and rpi socket, I feel like a lot of cool stuff could happen if all of the effort was focused on one hardware platform. There are a bunch of "a rpi doing music things" out there but mostly incompatible with eachother...

Re: PO-80 Record Factory

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No, Benn Jordan got into that a while back. It's not the listening part, it's the manufacturing that isn't 'green', though I'm not sure quite how the math works: for instance, whether they're counting the trucking of boxes of vinyl circles all over the place rather than just uploading bits locally. Some of that would apply to CDs, too, but CDs are about as relevant as vinyl records are.

> it's the manufacturing that isn't 'green' If this is really the case then it probably doesn't belong in this thread about a usb-powered (!!) "factory".

But the vinyl blanks for this device have to be manufactured, with similar processes to the vinyl for professional releases. Also, cleaning the disk after you cut it, hoovering up the swarf etc. is surely more energy efficient when done in bulk in a factory? Factories use more energy than a home device, but when divided by the number of units produced?
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