The rhythm robot ought to be finished by now. I spent most of Sunday routing holes and fitting circuit boards, and the result is pretty sweet. I will really have to use a dremel tool next time instead of cutting all the holes by hand with an x-acto knife, though. I will also have to exercise a little more patience next time I try to de-solder the pins on my LCD unit; I ended up mangling the connector edge to the point of stripping copper traces off the PCB, and now the LCD is basically junk. Bummer. I hope to receive the replacement part tomorrow.

In the meantime, it looks pretty cool. I made little embossed labels for all the controls in red tape; it makes a delightfully retro contrast with the black case and silver knobs.