Mounting a Smapler v0002 step by step

A Smapler is a circuit dedicated to the production of generative sound created by David Cuartielles and Ino Schlaucher from BlushingBoy.org. The Smapler v0002 -aka Singapore edition- is nothing but an Arduino shield to be used for playing funky stereo sounds.

As an extra add-on the Smapler v0002 circuit includes a PS2 connector for you to recycle any kind of PS2 keyboard or mouse as an interface to Arduino.

This Instructable is a guide on how to mount the Smapler v0002 step by step. The circuit comes as a DIY kit that requires between 20 and 50 minutes of your time to mount, depending on your skills.

The design is open source (CC-SA-NC), you can download the schematic, board file, and BOM from here, if you are interested in the original eagle files, you should visit BlushingBoy.org

Step 1 Gear

The tools needed to mount the Smapler are the classic ones for soldering and cutting wires. I am using RoHS soldering tin, a metallic "sponge" to clean the soldering tip, a nice and powerful JBC 26W soldering pen and -just in case- some desoldering bride.

I designed the pads to be extra-wide, what makes soldering very easy. This also makes the PCB more robust to desolder components with the bride.

Comments

[apophene]

Great build guide for the SMAPLER; thanks. Could you maybe add some usage notes about how to work with it, or (even better) some Arduino code? I have to confess, I'm not entirely sure what the little beastie does, even after visiting the BlushingBoy site. Maybe that's a whole other Instructable!

[dcuartielles]

Hej, I made some notes and code examples that you can find at http://blushingboy.net/p/SNDlib/ I will be making a new instructable with some of that code soon ;-)

Thanks for your interest!

[ZrvZ]

nice instructable. :-)