{"id":67002,"date":"2020-03-02T22:01:38","date_gmt":"2020-03-03T06:01:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ponoko.com\/blog\/?p=67002"},"modified":"2020-03-03T09:43:38","modified_gmt":"2020-03-03T17:43:38","slug":"circuit-happy-missing-link-analog-clock-generator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ponoko.com\/blog\/maker-success-stories\/circuit-happy-missing-link-analog-clock-generator\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting A Product To Market Quickly Using Laser Cut Parts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ponoko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Circuit-Happy-1-The-Missing-Link.jpg\" alt=\"Circuit Happy 1 - The Missing Link\" class=\"wp-image-66997\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ponoko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Circuit-Happy-1-The-Missing-Link.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.ponoko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Circuit-Happy-1-The-Missing-Link-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How Ed Guild Built The Missing Link Synchronizing Clock In Just Three Months<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>For musicians, one of the most important fundamentals to master is being able to keep time and establish rhythm, which becomes more and more important as the number of musicians playing together increases. That\u2019s why bands have drummers and orchestras have conductors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt is thanks to time that we can make sense of music, and if we didn\u2019t organize it in some fashion (rhythm), all we would hear would be a random collection of sounds,\u201d&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nyensembleclasses.com\/improving-your-time-and-rhythm\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">says Paolo Lattanzi<\/a>, ensemble instructor and the director at NY Ensemble Classes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For electronic musicians, being in sync is especially important to avoid sounding like this random collection of sounds. However, being in sync is often easier said than done\u2014a predicament that&nbsp;Ed Guild, who has&nbsp;DJ\u2019d, VJ\u2019d and performed with bands since 2001, has experienced first-hand time and again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhen multiple electronic musicians get together to jam, there\u2019s often this big discussion on how to sync everybody up in order to get everyone playing in time with each other,\u201d he explains. \u201cSequencers need a shared clock source in order to play in time together, kind of like a pianist and a violinist listening to the same metronome or conductor to keep in time with each other.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Makes sense. But the challenge is that electronic music setups are quite unique with each musician configuring theirs in slightly different ways. \u201cThere\u2019s usually some negotiation on who will have to compromise their setup to share clock signals,\u201d Ed continues. \u201cAnd then, usually one sad person gets left out because they ran out of long cables to stretch over to their setup.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jam sessions are supposed to be fun, not a drag, which got Ed thinking. As the old adage suggests, \u201cNecessity is the mother of invention,\u201d and Ed saw an opportunity to fix the sync problem so that everyone could be making sweet music together in no time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Introducing The Missing Link<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>What was missing was a universal clock of sorts that all the musicians could easily access.&nbsp;Say hello to&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"http:\/\/circuithappy.com\/themissinglink\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Missing Link<\/a>, an analog clock generator for synchronizing modular synths, drum machines and other electronic noise makers.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"680\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ponoko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Circuit-Happy-2-The-Missing-Link-Front-With-MIDI-1024x680.jpg\" alt=\"Circuit Happy 2 - The Missing Link Front With MIDI\" class=\"wp-image-66998\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ponoko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Circuit-Happy-2-The-Missing-Link-Front-With-MIDI-1024x680.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.ponoko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Circuit-Happy-2-The-Missing-Link-Front-With-MIDI-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ponoko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Circuit-Happy-2-The-Missing-Link-Front-With-MIDI-768x510.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ponoko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Circuit-Happy-2-The-Missing-Link-Front-With-MIDI-1536x1020.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.ponoko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Circuit-Happy-2-The-Missing-Link-Front-With-MIDI-2048x1360.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWith The Missing Link, if each person has one in their setup, then you just connect to the same WiFi network and everyone is synchronized. No negotiations needed!\u201d Ed says. \u201cAnd if one person decides to pack up and go, they won\u2019t disrupt the rest of the players.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"680\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ponoko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Circuit-Happy-3-The-Missing-Link-Rear-With-MIDI-1024x680.jpg\" alt=\"Circuit Happy 3 - The Missing Link Rear With MIDI\" class=\"wp-image-66999\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ponoko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Circuit-Happy-3-The-Missing-Link-Rear-With-MIDI-1024x680.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.ponoko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Circuit-Happy-3-The-Missing-Link-Rear-With-MIDI-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ponoko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Circuit-Happy-3-The-Missing-Link-Rear-With-MIDI-768x510.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ponoko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Circuit-Happy-3-The-Missing-Link-Rear-With-MIDI-1536x1020.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.ponoko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Circuit-Happy-3-The-Missing-Link-Rear-With-MIDI-2048x1360.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the things that makes The Missing Link special is that it supports Ableton Link. \u201cTo sync things, you usually must have lots of cables and adapters, but Ableton Link is an API for synchronizing musical applications over a local area network,\u201d Ed explains. \u201cIt really makes it much easier to quickly jam out with your friends.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ed and a buddy designed and developed The Missing Link around the Raspberry Pi Zero W small board computer that runs a flavor of Linux. \u201cIt\u2019s a pretty small but powerful computer that also supports WiFi that is FCC and CE certified,\u201d he says. \u201cThe RPi Zero W is soldered directly to a PCB (printed circuit board) that holds all of the user interface widgets and the output jacks.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ponoko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Circuit-Happy-4-The-Missing-Link-PCB-Production-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Circuit Happy 4 - The Missing Link PCB Production\" class=\"wp-image-67000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ponoko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Circuit-Happy-4-The-Missing-Link-PCB-Production-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.ponoko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Circuit-Happy-4-The-Missing-Link-PCB-Production-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ponoko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Circuit-Happy-4-The-Missing-Link-PCB-Production-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ponoko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Circuit-Happy-4-The-Missing-Link-PCB-Production.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Designing Electronics Enclosures<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>While Ed spends his days surrounded by high tech digital components, when it comes to designing his next build, he goes old school.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhen I\u2019m honing in on a design idea, I always use a notepad and pencil to sketch out how I think it should work,\u201d he says. \u201cI try not to think about the underlying implementation so I don\u2019t limit myself. Once the sketch is complete, I bring it in to Adobe Illustrator to draw the ideas to scale. Next, I print out the faceplate design to see if the ergonomics make sense and the sizing works (e.g. buttons aren\u2019t too close together). From there, it\u2019s easy to convert that drawing to a layout for&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ponoko.com\/laser-cutting\" target=\"_blank\">laser cutting<\/a>&nbsp;with Ponoko. I can also use this same drawing to map out where my UI widgets will be placed on the PCB that will sit underneath the faceplate.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the case of The Missing Link, once Ed created the initial case design, it was time to select a manufacturing method and begin prototyping.&nbsp;\u201cMaking an extruded metal case seemed out of my price range and would require larger batch sizes to become affordable, plus a metal case would have less accessibility. Thus, I chose to laser cut my cases in acrylic because it was affordable for short runs (20-30 boxes per production run) and Ponoko has a&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ponoko.com\/materials\" target=\"_blank\">wide palette<\/a>&nbsp;of colors and textures to choose from.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ponoko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Circuit-Happy-5-The-Missing-Link-Bronze-Mirror-Acrylic-1024x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"Circuit Happy 5 - The Missing Link Bronze Mirror Acrylic\" class=\"wp-image-67011\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ponoko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Circuit-Happy-5-The-Missing-Link-Bronze-Mirror-Acrylic-1024x1024.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.ponoko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Circuit-Happy-5-The-Missing-Link-Bronze-Mirror-Acrylic-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.ponoko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Circuit-Happy-5-The-Missing-Link-Bronze-Mirror-Acrylic-768x768.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.ponoko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Circuit-Happy-5-The-Missing-Link-Bronze-Mirror-Acrylic-1536x1536.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/www.ponoko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Circuit-Happy-5-The-Missing-Link-Bronze-Mirror-Acrylic-2048x2048.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>While black acrylic is a favorite for many hardware engineers, Ed decided to go a different direction for the faceplate and used&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ponoko.com\/materials\/bronze-mirror-acrylic\" target=\"_blank\">bronze mirror acrylic<\/a>.&nbsp;\u201cI love the bronze mirror acrylic because you can etch away the back coating to reveal translucent windows that light up beautifully,\u201d Ed says. \u201cThe result is a dazzling display shining up through a perfectly smooth faceplate. It looks very distinctive compared to the black metal boxes these types of utility devices usually come in.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Working With Ponoko<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>As mentioned above, Ed originally looked at metal case manufacturers when considering different production options.&nbsp;\u201cBut it seemed so much more involved and intimidating to get a quote for your job,\u201d he says. \u201cConversely, I was impressed to see how Ponoko worked. I simply uploaded my file, chose the material and received a detailed view of the costs (cut time, shipping, job priority). Plus, I didn\u2019t have to look any further once I saw all the available materials. I made a test design to try out the Ponoko service and was quite pleased with the whole process.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Having the ability to quickly iterate prototypes also helped Ed bring his product to market quickly. \u201cThe amazing thing with getting my cases produced via laser cut acrylic is that the prototype design IS the final design if it\u2019s good to go,\u201d he says. \u201cI don\u2019t have another step to produce the case in another material. I think I went through three iterations that I cut in acrylic before I landed on my final design. It took about three months to hone in on the design while I was juggling PCB design as well.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What one piece of advice does Ed have for other makers? \u201cDon\u2019t be afraid to try out a few materials before you settle on one,\u201d he says. \u201cI happened upon the mirror finish acrylics on a lark when I was first testing out the Ponoko service. I didn\u2019t intend to make my box with a bronze mirror acrylic; I was just curious what it looked like in real life so I did a test cut on it. But when I saw the output, I realized this was exactly what I was going to use. I think a lot of my customers are drawn to my product not only for its feature set, but also how it looks. It is quite unique.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>To learn more about The Missing Link and keep up with all of Ed\u2019s endeavors, visit&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/circuithappy.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">Circuit Happy<\/a>&nbsp;and follow him on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/circuit_happy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How Ed Guild Built The Missing Link Synchronizing Clock In Just Three Months<\/p>\n<p>For musicians, one of the most important fundamentals to master is being able to keep time and establish rhythm, which becomes more and more important as the number of musicians playing together increases. 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