This is a guide on the world of Ciat Lonbarde DIY for beginners, with a focus on Peter's paper circuits and other diy friendly projects


Resources:

My Rolz5 Build Process :) (see the process of making a cl rollz5 drum and drama machine!!)


Ciat Lonbarde
Paper Circuits
Lines Forum
Ciat Lonbarde Diy Fans Instagram (Great Inspo for Builds!)


Ciat-Lonbarde is a boutique audio equipment maker known for creating unique, experimental, and often whimsical electronic music instruments. Now based in Berlin, its founder, Peter Blasser, designs and hand-builds these instruments. Each device is a piece of audio art, crafted to inspire new approaches to sound synthesis and experimentation. Ciat-Lonbarde instruments are known for their organic, often unpredictable nature, resembling natural processes more than traditional electronic synths.


Peter's circuits are like ancient foreign ruins, with many cryptic symbols and strange geometries. A lot of his circuit designs are influenced by geography, sound in nature, touch, gesture, wind and everything in-between. The master legend demystifies his paper circuits, and allows you to put these puzzles together relatively easily.

On paper circuits, from Peter: "PAPER CIRCUITS In 2006 I began making circuits on paper. Paper circuits are easier, cheaper, and environmentally safer than the alternative- greenboards etched with heavy chemicals at a factory. The idea, which I got from a St. Louis collective known as “commonsound”, puts front (component) face and back (trace) face adjacent and mirrored on the paper. The pattern is cut out, folded in the middle, then pierced with a needle. The components are inserted and their leads woven and soldered according to the trace pattern. I created several pocket-size paper circuits that explore touchability and the complexity of circular modulations. I play them by intuitively wiring or touching nodes to each other to create different re-weavings of the internal circuits. I consider these the most accessible of my designs; anyone can salvage or buy the components after downloading the plans from my website (www.ciat-lonbarde.net). Each build of a paper circuit is unique, because the time elements vary by changing values in key locations. The transcription of electronic ideas onto paper stimulates a free and open distribution of craft, where the final pieces vary based on the skills of the maker. This appeals to an ideal of medieval individuality, where information is distributed personally through guilds as well as mnemonically in spellbooks and mandalas. The paper circuit projects attempt to bring the art of electronics from an impersonal, industrial approach to one which is individual and magical. This crafty use of electronics encourages everyone who pursues it to personally reduce waste; creativity leads to resourcefulness and vice versa."

A paper circuit is a simple, flexible circuit made on paper with conductive ink or tape, ideal for educational, low-power projects. It's easy to create but not durable. In contrast, a PCB (Printed Circuit Board) is a durable, multi-layered circuit on a rigid material, used in commercial electronics for complex, high-power applications. Many people have converted or modified Peters papers and Osmond files to PCB gerbers for ordering from some online PCB manufacturer. One of the main contributors of this trend has been CrucFX, from which a lot the docs on this page come from.

Docs and Mods:

Enclosures:

Peter mostly uses the technique of sandwiching different types of hardwood and CNCing cavities to fit components and circuit boards on the inside. He also uses brass nodes, to patch with your hands or alligator clips, or steel wool, or coins, or copper wire. These could be screws, nails, spikes, copper tape, or other touch capacitive metals. For the deerhorn antennae he uses aluminum sheets (i think).

Heres an example of clear plexi/acrylic with CNCed holes for components and joinery.

These are examples os builds of mine that use the sandwich idea, on the left its sandwiched with machine screws on the 4 corners, on the right the rolz pcb has holes on the pcb for the banana jacks, the jacks on top are soldered directly to the pcb on the back, and the bottom is screwed to the pcb mounting holes. This gives a cool "floating" effect, and makes the build super flat and compact.

The classic DIY move is to use cigar boxes, and the cheapo bannana jacks with the plastic and metal jacks, the two plastic parts (these jacks get loose with the plastic super easily) and drill holes the size of just the jack. This is Lil Sidrolz, Lil Sidrassi and Rolz, the perfect beginner project. The one on the left has 12 position switches for the hairy caps on lil sid and the one on the left has 3 position on/on/on switches. Spend the money and buy pamona bannana cables they are really nice and will last a long long time.

Lil Sidrassi Gerber


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Tarpterge Gerber
Arpserge Gerber
Intersexon Gerber
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