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Project TouCans Digital noise issue fixed-ish

 The intermittent noise issues in Wireless TouCans are fixed! Sort of. After a variety of fixes that involved resoldering the audio jack and taping the audio cables in various locations, I finally arrived at a solution yesterday. The solution came in two parts and is still a little bit rough. First, I replaced the rig's headphone jack with a headphone plug. It doesn't make a lot of sense for the rig to have a headphone jack, except for debug purposes—on  rare occasions I plug in headphones while the rig is being worked on. It does make sense for it to have an audio micro-stereo plug since that's the format the Bluetooth audio transmitters expect. You can see the original version of the audio out plug and patch cable in the picture of an early TouCans version below. Notice the headphone jack to the left of the Bluetooth transmitter under the rain shield. That's the bit that's been removed. Now, the audio wires from the rig that were attached  to the jack are soldered...