The original stock wishbone board installed with the PSRAM mod version above it
Oh yeah ha. I should probably mention that.
The reason is it replaces the existing LED wishbone board that's already on there. They don't make reverse mount 1x1mm LEDs so have a separate board to light up the logo and nano header, and it catches the light that bounces back to light up the text.
The whole thing
If you preordered one of these, I should have them out todayish. Turns out they're easier to install than I thought, but I'll have a link to the instructions on the product page before they get to you.
shop.jumperless.org/products/ala...
Don't judge my soldering around the flash chip, I did this from arm's length through a camera
The ALASKAN BULL WORM! logo lit up
both sides of the wishbone replacement LED boards
1mm pogo pin making contact with a pad that is repurposed from being one of the arduino reset lines into the CS pin on the PSRAM
It still blows my mind you can get a 1mm working height pogo pin.
The ALASKAN BULL WORM! PSRAM Mod kits are in.
I was worried about the fit around that flash chip but the vibes-based clearance was so on point you could probably get away with just friction fitting them.
It definitely falls into the category of outsider art, given that I don’t own a synth and mostly listen to poorly recorded acoustic shit.
But if I do this right, it won’t really make any assumptions about anything so it won’t matter
Front render
Kicad screenshot with magnetometers highlighted
Power nets highlighted because it looks cool
Back render
Idk what to call it, it’s like a Matrix Mixer (but cooler because the backend is a Jumperless) with an insane array of 50 3-axis magnetometers so you can plug in knobs or springy door stoppers or Space Mice into the jacks and to control stuff. The functionality is kinda falling out of the design
KiCad screenshot showing the tracks
A 20HP eurorack module with a crazy number of RGBs, 60 jacks, and 5 knobs.
**Refuses to elaborate further (but mostly because I have no idea wtf this thing will actually do yet)**
Haha that's perfect, I just promised the people at the UPS Store my next package would have even more glitter on it.
And yes, I will load up the box with the gayest components I have laying around.
Btw if you preordered one of these, they'll be going out soon.
It took an extra week because I'm dumb and made that pogo pin hole with 0.002 mm of clearance.
shop.jumperless.org/products/ala...
The mouth and PSRAM chip
The full panel of 5
Oh also they work
"Welding sample" of a single Jumperless PSRAM Mod board
ALASKAN BULL WORM update:
They look sick af.
Well fuck, it's not like my shop is *organized* enough to just find things.
That looks sick!
Am I crossing a line if I told you I do every layer at a different wonky angle?
It's cool when someone says it looks cooler in person and then realizing I have one of those to look at in-personally
Yeah I like it too. I have no way to prove this, but I feel like it makes boards less sensitive to differences in "matte" black soldermask from run-to-run.
Elecrow telling me I made a hole too small.
I use @elecrow.bsky.social for any production stuff and I will shill them endlessly. They've saved me from my own stupidity quite a few times.
A panel of Alaskan Bull Worm PSRAM mod boards
A panel of Alaskan Bull Worm PSRAM mod boards, but the other side
I love how fabs have such low self-esteem.
They'll be like, "hey those silkscreen features are too tiny, our terrible process will turn them into mush" and you say "that's fine, just try your best" and then they fucking nail it every time.
Ooh that would be fun to make giant Multi Layer Fiberglass Capacitors like this.
Do you think they'd be able to parse a 3rd axis column in the position file?
omg it's soo expensive, like $1200 in setup fees. But if like 1000 people wanted a physical hardware shitpost it wouldn't be too bad
Kicad screenshot of the PCB
A random 555 circuit whose only purpose is to be a shitpost
This is my worst and favorite idea I've had in a while.
A 32 layer PCB built sideways with blind vias and fills for tracks
I finally found a use for 32 layer PCBs
I'm sorry I'm 20 minutes late to show you this very important information:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qO6...
reading jumperless docs, one of the most insane things i have ever seen
goatse hands on the Jumperless logo
I really need to stop reading peoples' comments, they keep giving me horrible ideas.
Please direct all blame for this one to @aryafairywren.bsky.social
Me being dumb and making the footprint exactly to the datasheet and not leaving room for through hole plating.
wtf, I still have 0.005 mm clearance!!1!
Goatse SMD footprint but with arcs and silkscreen cutout
I figure y'all would want this footprint so I'm making it worse before I put it up on GitHub
Goatse as a footprint
This is @joeycastillo.bsky.social's fault
