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Introduction
This website, geekabit.nl, is where I document the things I build and the music I make. I started the site in 2016 as a way to write things down properly, and it's grown from there.
The projects range from electronics to woodworking, quick fixes to multi-year builds, and cover everything from the finished result to the mistakes along the way. Music-wise you'll find bass tabs and melodeon tunes I've transcribed, with guitar tabs on the way as I'm currently learning.
I hope you'll find something here to inspire or entertain you — and if it makes you want to go build or play something yourself, even better.
Projects
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This page collects the projects I've built over the years — electronics, woodworking, software, sewing, reverse engineering, audio, and the odd combination of these. Some took an afternoon, others took years, and they range from things that turned out genuinely useful to the occasional spectacular failure. Have a look through and see if anything catches your eye.
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Bass tabs
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As you might (or might not) know, I'm a bass player. Currently I'm band-less, so I mostly play along with other people's music. For many well-known songs it's easy to find good bass tabs online, however that's not always so with lesser-known songs. That's why I've started transcribing songs I like, that didn't have a proper bass tab available on the internet.
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Melodeon tunes
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Here's a collection of melodeon tunes I've transcribed as I learn them. I've been playing more seriously for the last few years, and these are the tunes I've enjoyed working out along the way — mostly folk tunes, some well known, some a bit more obscure.
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Project ideas
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A collection of creative, unusual, and occasionally questionable ideas that rattle around in my ADHD brain. I can dream up new projects far faster than I can execute them, so most of these will probably never get built — at least not by me. Consider this an open invitation: browse, take what inspires you, and feel free to build it yourself.
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