I'm irrationally excited about two of my more niche hobbies ('puters/OSS and guitar) colliding. I've built several PedalPCB [1] and BYOC [2] pedal kits and used Tayda pre-drilled enclosures as Linus is apparently planning on as well. I've been using Fractal stuff live since before it was cool but there's something intangibly awesome about slamming the front end of an old AB763 circuit with a homemade dirtbox.

[1] https://www.pedalpcb.com/

[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20240719020900/https://buildyour... (Sadly defunct as of 6 months ago, RIP)

Glad to see I'm not alone. The fuzz face clone from tonepad was my first project. It's really satisfying to create stuff using a tool you've created.

KiCad gains celebrity user :) Congratulations KiCad! The team has really been doing a fantastic job the last few years, I'm consistently impressed at how much new stuff they implement. It seems every few months there is a new major version.

I've done that (pedal kits) 5 years ago when I was taking a break. I'm now a proud owner of a drawer of pedals I don't use, since I have gone digital since then (Neural DSP Quad Cortex).

I guess it fits with the tradition of metal bands up in the north.

Finns never beating the doom metal allegations.

> I've never done analog circuits in my life. But hey, I also don't play guitar, so when it doesn't work, it doesn't really matter.

Makes pedals but doesn't play guitar :( My image of Linus playing dad rock to destress is shattered.

At release he (in)famously described Linux as "just a hobby" that "won't be big and professional," so I strongly suspect there's a bit of cheeky / self-referential Torvalsian understatement going on here.

So take comfort: Linus probably is the dad rocker type, he's just also a Finnish dad rocker type. :D

https://fossbytes.com/linus-torvaldss-famous-email-first-lin...

Software is nice, but you never get the high of pressing the button on the PCB/3d print you designed.

Everyone seems to be moving to AI safe artisan jobs ;-)

Tone, is in the hands. gadgets are great and all, but dig in, play more, listen more, keep your guitar out and in hands reach, and vastly more important than any other technical feature is to have a guitar that fits YOUR hand, scale length, neck width, and shape add up or subtract from your ability to grab, hold on ,and wring the thing ,out linus is aparently, offering pedals, as some sort of prise or award