I’ve been working on building regular arcade sticks lately and when I saw the pocket operator for the first time I was just like “I’MA MAKE A BIG ONE!” Looks like somebody beat me to it. It looks great man. I will probably follow your tutorial when I get around to actually buying a PO. Great work.

Omg I just bought a pocket operator for my little brother and sister for Christmas and would love to build one of these to go along with it. Amazing idea, and it’s such a nice final product.

This is awesome man, I have an extra tonic so I may do something like this for it. I'm building a box/case for my other 5 right now and was browsing to see other designs and came across this first. Need most of the components though so can't be impulsive and do this build today unfortunately lol.

This is awesome

Hey man... I would like to do this, great device!!!!

hey there, would you please explain the switch you've added for the beat repeat mod?

Genius✨👌

An amazing project with so much care and attention on many levels...except one major one. Please show a follow up video showing the wooden boxing has been improved.

The day I would be able to do this I'll just build my own synth hahah (great video man)

yeah I was thinking the same thing. Why fix it when it aint broke? But I can see where if this was done in clear plastic with alot of extra lights it would be beneficial for dark stage performance, maybe? I dunno but these are fun little devices when you use them in unison with the Boss rc-505 looper.

Dope!

Hi, I want to build it similar but I only want to connect the buttons (no lipo battery no audio cables and no beat repeat) how should I connect the buttons? Once welded as in the video do I have to connect them to the ground? If so which pin is the ground? Thank you

I low-key wanna try this with my po-33

easy for anyone to just do

Lol what a cool idea I love it

Useful instructions thank you. TIP: When drilling into such thin material it's a good idea to place the panel onto a thick piece of wood and clamp them together on the bench so the panel is fully supported, then the drill doesn't burst through the rear and leave it splintered. Also flat bits are quite lethal and uncontrollable, use a manual brace and bit (far slower and much more contrallable) or as you said, a hole saw. One other thing, how can you write on the caption "SOLDER" then pronouce it SODDER?? It's like Soldier but just remove the 'J' sound - Say "SOUL-DER" and you have it and will not get grief from any other English speaking country ;) Heat-shrink sleeving is also a good idea to protect all the wire joints..

crazy!!

Where can I get the battery to USB adapter from 'ditchStudios' @10:06

Really cool (I changed my mind since the last comment :)

Sick ! 10/10

What's the music at 12:23 , seems familiar.

What's the total cost on this project?

I like to make one with mechanical keys of keyboard, Elektron format, like the batery mod and iwould make sync out/audio out to 1/4 mono to conect pedals

Is it possible to connect this to a special MIDI interface instead so you can hook it up with your DAW instead and use any MIDI-controller you like?? Now that would be insane!! :D

Also we will need the dragon balls...

Has anyone tried to replace the pots? B was totally gone and A kept randomly changing pitch. The board looks really thick, how is the thermal mass of this thing? Can I just flux and mop or do I need to heat the board first? I'm a complete novice when it comes to soldering.

if anyone's wondering, music by Choke

Good job! Ok We are ready for V 2.0? 3d printed case instead of wooden one LED Lighting buttons

This is looks pretty cool but tbh I don't really understand why you'd want to make the PO any bigger... kinda the whole point of them is that your able to carry them around

here.... I was just thinking to myself I want to build a switch to toggle the record and #1 buttons on the PO-33 K.O. so I can sample without holding onto the damn thing but this would be sick! Alas.....I'm a short order cook, not an electrical technician :) :)

Why would you not use the po arcade?

Do all that by myself...? yeah right... lol.. cool stuff though

우와 너무 신기해요 ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

that inrto was so cringy that it made me so happy

Awesome as f🤘🏾k

Hey man could I pay you to do something like this for me? if so how much would it be?

All the beats

Congratulations. You took a super portable and easy to use device and made it less portable and harder to use.

Brought to you by Sugru

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Nice intention, but that implementation has a lot of EM noise.

No led connected Meeeehhhh

Nice tutorial but... Man... The background music! It is so loud that it covers your voice and gives me headache!! :-( I could not stand it for more than 5/10 minutes hence I had to follow your tutorial without sounds! The balance is a little bit... Unbalanced! The idea, tho, is AWESOME! Absolutely BRILLIANT! Thumbs up for this tutorial! 👍

It’s kinda killed the idea of pocketness of the operator :) but all in all a great modification!

Thatsa lotta blur time

How much time and money was spent making this portable synth less portable and more cumbersome?

Take a shot every time he says buh-in or buh-ins.

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😭

Even a child could do this.

So instead of learning how to solder properly he just edited out the parts that showed him touching a solder covered iron to cold joints.

Great video but music way to loud - distracting and irritating!

Super awesome vid but the most of the camera movement is unbearable to focus on, sorry.

I really like the Woodglut plans.

Wrecking a perfectly good drum machine

Lol so you do this and then lose the line input and output? No thanks, not for my setup- definitely looks sick but I'm not gonna spend time making something that decreases functionality.