Hi, you may recall that I wrote some time ago about this eChucK project that I dreamed up. It had some fits and stumbles at first, but now the concept is evolving into actual products. The first board didn't really work out for various reasons so I basically took a $130 hit and cut my losses, giving three boards out for free to people who might make use of them. Oh well, you win some you lose some. The second board is extremely simple. It is a little postage-stamp sized breakout board designed to hold one chip plus discreet parts and solid wire interconnect. We can make sound sculptures by connecting these populated boards with the wire and arranging them in 3D. I had 100 boards made for $225 and sold 42 of them so far for $2.50 each, a modest 10% markup due to it being a prototype and all that. I have ordered parts to build two types of sculptures: Chiphenge and Tie Fighter. Next on the horizon is a Karplus Strong board implemented as an analog circuit. Just yesterday I completed the prototype in breadboard form and I cannot express how satisfying it was to listen to guitar and percussion sounds, and it even does a pretty good motor cycle / chain saw sound, heh. I spent most of Sunday afternoon broadcasting test audio of it on my internet radio port to friends, who really enjoyed the variety of sounds that it makes. Next up: order parts then complete the board design. Finally, I have a Boolean Sequencer board, a song timer board, and a clock / battery board planned to round out the selection of ChucK-inspired eChucK DIY products. It is a lot of fun to put my engineering knowledge to good use for a change. Oh, one more thing. There is now an eChucK forum sitting right next to the ChucK forum on www.electro-music.com, so stop by and have a read if you like. That's all for now. Keep on ChucKin'. Les