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Easy DIY Gated (Step-Muting) 8-Step Sequencer

This sequencer builds on the popular “Baby10” design, also incorporating an onboard gate. This gating mechanism allows the user to mute individual steps within a programmed sequence, allowing for more rhythmic & interesting musical patterns. It can be used with pretty much any synth or oscillator module that accepts CV pitch input. For a demo,…

By crustytech February 26, 2021 Off

Programmable DIY Hotkey Generator

What Does It Do? I recently built this device in order to automate some common tasks when working on my computer. It has two arcade-style buttons and a two-way toggle switch, allowing for up to four distinct “automations”. In this case, the red button “mutes” audio in Zoom meetings and the black button locks the…

By crustytech December 21, 2020 Off

Tri-Oscillator Noise Box Synth

I designed and built this synth as (hopefully) the first in a line of similar-style modules. It has three oscillators with a few quirky modulations that altogether produce range of weird sounds. It can make multi-note drones as well as some rough, rhythmic wubs and also even some FM (frequency modulation) sounds if you patch…

By crustytech November 20, 2020 Off

Dumping & Cracking Windows Domain Hashes

Many organizations use Microsoft’s Active Directory to manage users on a network. In these environments, all of the user accounts and their passwords are stored in a file called “ntds.dit”. In order to run a password cracker up against all of the passwords in a domain, the hashes first need to be extracted from this…

By crustytech October 1, 2020 Off

Renewing an Existing SSL/TLS Certificate In IIS

Renewing a certificate sounds like it should be easier than creating a brand new one. But for some reason, (for me, at least) it seemed to take even more steps. My hope is this tutorial will help someone else navigating the fun and exciting world of encryption and certificates. Background I was recently tasked with…

By crustytech September 16, 2020 Off

Building a Line Output for a Hammond M3 Organ

The Hammond M3 organ is widely loved by many organ and synth enthusiasts for both its incredible authentic Hammond tones as well as its relative portability (as compared to its iconic and colossal brother the Hammond B3). But unfortunately, besides the built-in speaker, there is no built-in output. This can make it difficult to send…

By crustytech September 14, 2020 Off