[NewMusic] Flower ELectronics

[lx rudis]

nyboer:
> well, I can only respond with http://www.chimera-synthesis.com/ which

crikey, that IS nice.  i'm interested in that forthcoming sequencer they
hint at.  what cool little boxen!

sigh.  gino, was this thread a ploy to provoke me into revealing Trade
Secrets?

http://www.radioshack.com/sm-buy-the-electronic-sensor-lab-on-wwwradioshackcom--pi-2102912.html

...and as flowerelectronics says so well:
"The single most important author in the world of "popular" electronics is
certainly Forrest Mims III. His series of "Engineers Mini-Notebooks" are so
popular that when Radio Shack stopped selling them a few years ago, I saw
some art school students passing each other photocopied bootlegs!
Fortunately his books are still in print and you can order them
online<http://www.forrestmims.com/>.
"

the sensor slab has a cheap but useable experimenter breadboard with enough
real estate to build two or three small experiments simultaneously, and
mims' sense of idiot glee provokes all sorts of creative misuse of the
published experiments.  buy a bag of random LEDs for additional fun and
experimentation.

for example, K. Miltner and i used the slab to create a magnetic pendulum
"T-oscillator" which used capacitance and light to transform frequency and
timbre while the pendulum provided 'rhythm'.  took about an hour, start to
finish, using only the parts supplied in the $49.95 kit.

On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 10:28 PM, Peter Nyboer <pnyboer at slambassador.com>
wrote:

>
> > http://www.flowerelectronics.com/
>
> well, I can only respond with http://www.chimera-synthesis.com/ which
> is also interesting along the same lines!
>
> P.
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