From c5f7029fca64e3e5e401dc5c4f674086a89ac02a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: veradec Date: Sun, 25 Oct 2026 22:00:59 +0530 Subject: init: init blog --- public/atom.xml | 101 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 101 insertions(+) create mode 100644 public/atom.xml (limited to 'public/atom.xml') diff --git a/public/atom.xml b/public/atom.xml new file mode 100644 index 0000000..4a94639 --- /dev/null +++ b/public/atom.xml @@ -0,0 +1,101 @@ + + + Venkata Rao Dechiraju + made by a actual human + + + Zola + 2026-05-27T00:00:00+00:00 + https://veradec.xyz/atom.xml + + Making a Drum Sequencer + 2026-05-27T00:00:00+00:00 + 2026-05-27T00:00:00+00:00 + + + + + Unknown + + + + + + https://veradec.xyz/posts/drum-sequencer/ + + <p>I always looked at Teenage Engineering and thought it was pretty cool and given I have a sem break right now, I thought I can make one too. shouldn’t be hard right?<br /> +and after i started composing music, Techno was a genre I always wanted to try but i couldn’t, and then an idea popped up, maybe I can create a suite of instruments</p> +<blockquote> +<p>a Synth</p> +</blockquote> +<blockquote> +<p>a Drum Sequencer</p> +</blockquote> +<blockquote> +<p>a Vocoder</p> +</blockquote> +<p>and start making techno on them? Sounds nice innit?<br /> +<br></p> +<h1 id="the-design">The Design</h1> +<p>I wanted the design to look a little retro 80’s esque, and I wanted it to be little simpler (because I will have suite of appliances to generate different sounds, so would rather have one that is simple and does it job well) +and I drew a few sketches and ended with something that looks very nice</p> +<div style="display: flex; justify-content: center;"> + <img src="/dq_sketch.png" alt="Drum Sequencer Rough Sketch" style="transform: rotate(-90deg); width: 50%;" /> +</div> +<h1 id="the-prototyping">The Prototyping</h1> +<p>with the <em>beautifully</em> crafted picture in hand, now the plan is to prototype</p> +<p>I needed around 16 Buttons – which I am going to pull of some keyboards i archived (They paid off innit?).</p> +<p>I might need to get some more potentiometers and find a way to make a matrix the LEDs and Buttons, Once That is done, Getting the whole thing shouldn’t be that tough (atleast I hope it isn’t)</p> +<!-- -- 28 May 02:00 AM --> +<!-- I am about to order stuff from flyrobo and i found this website called [ifuturetech](https://ifuturetech.org) which i am really unsure is legitimate, but yes. I might order from it, the total cost excluding the MicroProcessor and the Speaker (which i might borrow from a friend for prototyping) come around to 616. --> +<!-- Including the speaker and the MCU let's call it a even 900? and then the chassis -- with a good cnc machine and alumium -- would roll everything up to a nice 1500 - 1700? That still is cheaper than Teenage Engineering or any SOTA, selling it for around 2400-2500 should make up some good profit. this is getting exciting. --> +<!-- I look forward to any outliers that would increase the cost by 10x -- i don't see a reason something like this would but yes. --> + + + + + About verade + 2026-05-24T00:00:00+00:00 + 2026-05-24T00:00:00+00:00 + + + + + Unknown + + + + + + https://veradec.xyz/about/ + + <p>I am Venkata Rao Dechiraju, A Low-Level Perfomance Developer based off 🇮🇳, I heavily fw Compilers, Motorsports and Low Level Programming.</p> +<p>You can find all the weird stuff i do on <a rel="noopener nofollow noreferrer external" target="_blank" href="https://github.com/veradec/">my github</a> (Even though I am trying to move to something like codeberg)</p> +<p>I hope you find yourself intriguied after reading through my posts – that’s the intention of the whole website.</p> +<p>(Just because I use em-dashes doesn’t mean it wasn’t written by LLMs, I find the concept of em-dashes rather convenient, and I find myself at positions against LLMs for menial tasks such as writing blog posts, so cheers!)</p> +<p>Contact:</p> +<p>Mail -&gt; venkatraodechiraju@gmail.com</p> + + + + + Hello, World + 2026-05-24T00:00:00+00:00 + 2026-05-24T00:00:00+00:00 + + + + + Unknown + + + + + + https://veradec.xyz/posts/hello/ + + <p>a (hopefully) final revamp of the website, given it’s not very ugly to look at now, maybe i’ll start writing more here? i ain’t sure about that and yes, i’ll be copying all the content from the previous website here, so i’ll not lose what was</p> + + + + -- cgit v1.2.3