soldering the circuit board and making cut-outs in the project box is turning out to be quite labour intensive. I think with the ammount of time that's gone into the wavemaker project so far, the advice I'd have to give to anyone would be to make sure it's an important thing you want if you're designing custom circuitry and have never done electronics before
. There was a lot for me to learn.
Plus cost. I think I've spent about $100 in various things to get the ting working. I could build another one after this for about $20 in components though, as most of the $100 was in tools and incorrect/unessesary components.
The potential of DIY electronics is exciting though. Been reading about some people who've used programmable IC's to make some stuff as advanced as the profilux equipment (minus the web server). T5 dimmers, pump frequency oscilators, stuff like that.
I had a friend who was learning about electronics along side me, helping prototype the circuit. He was thinking of all sorts of crazy stuff to use electronics for in his own home theater hobby, too.