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Tymkrs (The Toymakers)
- Rochester, United States
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Customer Reviews (8)
MIDI Out Interfect
April 8, 2014
When I saw the Tymkrs put out the MIDI Out board I immediately purchased a board. I was looking for one and I know the product line the tymkrs put out is quality and I've never had any issues with any of their products. The kit came and the board came with some nice mounting holes; another winner for sure.
Response from the Seller
April 8, 2014
Thanks Chas ^_^ Glad you liked it! Let us know when you have a project with it and we can post it up as additional documentation!
quick way to ditch the last stage of your audio project.
March 8, 2014
I have built a weather radio and instead of building my own protoboard with LM386 and speaker, etc... I decided to pick up two of these. One for the project and an extra just in case I liked it! ;) Note: they have directions on their website but I didn't follow them so my notes may have already been covered?
The board went together fine, I flipped my potentiometer to other side of the board (compared to their photo) from this photo because it fit better with the LM386 +8pin socket.. this worked out great. I also ditched the 1/4 jack and secretly hope they come out with a 1/8th (3.5mm) version of this board. I wired my circuit in directly to board. Finally, I noticed that if I used this amp on a 5V circuit that was powered by grounded mains (testing through a number of power supplies) the audio was scratchy; with the 9V battery *INCLUDED* (who does that anymore!?) the project worked great and sounded as you'd expect. I'll be adding these to my wishlist of project "helpers". Great product tymkrs!
The board went together fine, I flipped my potentiometer to other side of the board (compared to their photo) from this photo because it fit better with the LM386 +8pin socket.. this worked out great. I also ditched the 1/4 jack and secretly hope they come out with a 1/8th (3.5mm) version of this board. I wired my circuit in directly to board. Finally, I noticed that if I used this amp on a 5V circuit that was powered by grounded mains (testing through a number of power supplies) the audio was scratchy; with the 9V battery *INCLUDED* (who does that anymore!?) the project worked great and sounded as you'd expect. I'll be adding these to my wishlist of project "helpers". Great product tymkrs!
Response from the Seller
March 9, 2014
Good idea re: 3.5mm - I'll see what I can do :) Thanks for your review and hope it helps with your project!!
Have an electrical guitar? Want a fun little amp? Get this
Dec. 17, 2013
I've needed an amp for far too long, and that is when I found this little kit. It's pretty cool. Got it set up in a few minutes, connected a little speaker I had lying around from a kit bought who knows how long ago. Popped in the battery and it came right to life. Grabbed the guitar, and bam neat little amp. For a kids project, this is one of the best. Super easy to assemble, instructions are on the documentation link. Overall a fun project - the next step is getting a solid speaker to connect it to. Really want to hear this baby sing!
Response from the Seller
Dec. 18, 2013
Awesome! Glad assembly went well for you! Let us know when you have a recording of your guitar solo :D
Cool little amp project.
Nov. 18, 2013
Very easy to assemble and has a very crunchy sound when put through the proper speaker. Thanks for the great customer service.
Response from the Seller
Dec. 9, 2013
Awesome :) Glad you like it!!
PIC ASM Code Example
Nov. 16, 2013
I got this yesterday, works great and it's very noisy on transition. The only "wish list" item I would ask is that they made this .1"longer from header pins to header pins so it would fit across my dual 3M breadboard but it works fine with the support terminal dumped into one of the power buses.
I wrote some assembly code for the PIC 16F1509 (using TAUTIC's 20 pin development board). It dumps a 8 bit counter to PORTC ... you could easily drop this onto a DAC if you were looking for rotary encoder to voltage.. you'd have to stop the code at 0x00 and 0xFF so it doesn't roll over/under though.
The code is found at: http://iradan.com/?p=341
I wrote some assembly code for the PIC 16F1509 (using TAUTIC's 20 pin development board). It dumps a 8 bit counter to PORTC ... you could easily drop this onto a DAC if you were looking for rotary encoder to voltage.. you'd have to stop the code at 0x00 and 0xFF so it doesn't roll over/under though.
The code is found at: http://iradan.com/?p=341
Response from the Seller
Nov. 16, 2013
We'll check on why it's noisy, but glad you were able to write some PIC ASM for the kit! We'll add it to the kit site :)
Simple to solder up and use
Oct. 3, 2013
This was very simple to put together. It took make 15 minutes from opening the bag to completed assemble.
I wrote up a quick tutorial on using it with Arduino as well. http://www.millamilla.com/?p=129
I wrote up a quick tutorial on using it with Arduino as well. http://www.millamilla.com/?p=129
Response from the Seller
Oct. 4, 2013
Great! Glad it came together well! I'll be sure to include your tutorial and information on our site - thanks!
A fun project
Aug. 23, 2013
I'm a medical educator. I'm using it to give people a sense of the chaos associated with fib patterns as well as the beautiful synchronization of normal function.
On next revision it needs an on/off switch. The current button is so easily pushed that it is always getting activated inadvertently. I've kludged one with a small tab of plastic that I push between the battery and its contact when I want it to stay off.
On next revision it needs an on/off switch. The current button is so easily pushed that it is always getting activated inadvertently. I've kludged one with a small tab of plastic that I push between the battery and its contact when I want it to stay off.
Response from the Seller
Aug. 23, 2013
Thanks for the feedback. Yeah I've gotten in the habit of just taking out the battery, but a proper on off switch would probably be a good idea. Hopefully it's helped your patients understand what's going on a bit more!
Lacked documentation
July 25, 2013
I bought this item, but got it with no documentation. No datasheet, not even a pinout. Contacted the seller to get the missing info, turns out they don't have any info. This item may not be suitable for anyone below an advanced skill level.
Response from the Seller
July 26, 2013
This issue has been addressed - please let us know if you have any other questions!