Here are resources that we think you may find valuable in your SynthDIY journey.

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Book Recommendations

• Do Nothing: How To Break Away From Overworking, Overdoing, and Underliving by Celeste Headlee

• Circuit-Bending: Build Your Own Alien Instruments (ExtremeTech) by Reed Ghazala

• Handmade Electronic Music by Nicholas Collins

• Make: Electronics: Learning by Discovery: A hands-on primer for the new electronics enthusiast by Charles Platt

• Make: Electronic Music from Scratch: A Beginner’s Guide to Homegrown Audio Gizmos by Kirk Pearson

• Other books, articles, and papers collected in our clectric.diy Zotero Library

YouTube Channels

• Synthux Academy

• Flux Bench

• Predictable Designs

Documentation

We offer repos with documentation that has been augmented by the clectric.diy Community:

• AE-Docs Repo for AE Modular.
• Daisy-Docs Repo for daisy.audio.
• STM32-Docs Repo for STMicroelectronics.

KiCad Library

We offer a KiCad Library called clectric-diy.pretty with resources from all of our projects.

Synths

• Stylophone GENX-2 Portable Analogue Synthesizer

• Korg Volca Modular Micro Semi-modular Synthesizer

• AE Modular format modules and other gear from:

  • Tangible Waves,
  • Wonkystuff,
  • BF Synth,
  • Kyaa,
  • and many others.

Software

• Raycast: launcher, window manager, ai, etc.

Test Equipment

• A USB C microphone and headphone splitter like this or this.

Fuel

• Coffee from Jittery Joe’s or your favorite local roaster.