made by a actual human Zola 2026-05-27T00:00:00+00:00 https://veradec.xyz/atom.xml 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. --> 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> 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>