I’ve made a DIY version of part of Gills - everything on the H1 header and the MIDI on H3. I call it Chia, because it’s half a Gills, and the zoological term for ‘gills’ is ‘branchia’…
Inside it’s point-to-point wired on a protoboard. Outside it’s 3D printed (including the encoder knob) and is Eurorack sized for if I want to go that direction with it (obviously would need level shifters). At the moment though it lives with my MPC One and other line-level bits and pieces.
Very cool. All the essentials and no clutter.
I found myself expanding this to get the Gills version of Clouds to be usable. Sticking with the Eurorack sizing, and the naming, and the design cues, so this time I made a 40HP wide version of my existing 20HP wide desktop rack/holder. (I really need to share that design somewhere…)
Deliberately gave myself 12HP to create a utility module to bring out USBs and SD, power supply and level shifting for Eurorack (my cases are all homemade 40HP ones so it matches up). If/when I create that it’ll be called ‘Lung’.
Please tell me that black line starting on Chia, then expanding into a curve(? pool?) on Bran, will continue on the utility module! That alone will make it worth it.
The arcade buttons look like they’re making it even more fun to play!
Also I am a fan of cream colour, very nice choice of plastic, if I may say so.
will you make a video of Bran & Chia?
Absolutely! I didn’t know where I was going with it but I’ve been thinking of it as a river since printing it and that’s going to continue. And the font for the text, I love that… Bahnschrift looks like it belongs on a map (and probably is in some places). And it’s bundled with Windows!
Due to the way I’ve let it develop, the arcade buttons are S3 and S4 but their LEDs are L1 and L2. Not that intuitive, but I can deal with it. Plus, when you power it up, the whole buttons flash 
One day I will! I’ve got too much going on at the moment though (and my workshop/studio/office/attic is an absolute mess) so it’ll likely be a while…
