Getting into pedal building

Hey all, Taking inspiration from Joel Korte, and other inventor/pedal designers like him I've realised I would really like to get into more complex pedal building, like digital pedal programming etc. Is there a way I could get into making a digital pedals, and learn how to program them/build them.

Also do you think we've found all the effects there is to find now, and every effect will pretty much be a variation on a previously discovered model?

Hey all, Is there a way I could get into making a digital pedals, and learn how to program them/build them.

there's a certain digital delay chip that's really popular with boutique and DIY guys rght now because it comes with a spec sheet that contains music-centric circuit examples that can be tweaked ad nauseum... I forget the name of the chip, sorry... try the music electronics forum, DIYstompboxes.org etc

Also do you think we've found all the effects there is to find now, and every effect will pretty much be a variation on a previously discovered model?

of course we haven't, but we've been at the end of the line for new ideas that gain mainstream acceptance for a long time

Theres a ton of things that could be created that aren't out there I'd imagine but no one likes trying anything new it seems so manufactures don't bother

What like? It seems all new stuff "sounds like an incompetent eleven year old, had welded his Nintendo, to a half blown-up octaver, then into some horrible Chinese made fuzz, through around fifteen treble boosters, a sequencer, and an unexploded bomb, then ran his out of tune gear 4 music violin through it into an amp, attacked by bears, decimated by whales, and had its disability benefits axed by David Cameron, which has then been recorded over a nokia brick phone, through to a wet cellar in Poland, where the signal was mixed 75:25, with a recording of somebody abusing some Velcro, with a blowtorch, and a shotgun, and finally played back through a line 6 amp in prime condition. (All of my home recordings)", to quote a thread I wrote a while back.

you'll think of something.... or not

either way