[NewMusic] Flower ELectronics

[kristin miltner]

ha! i remember that! I love the spring circuits because they take no time at
all.
I've translated many a Mims "slab" project to circuitboards. I love that
thing. It's been in a box since I moved, I have to go find it.
 those Forest Mims' projects started the whole thing for me...
...the 'squeakbox' that uses a pencil marks as a resistor when you ran leads
up and down it -- resulting in a change in the pitch of the sawtooth wave it
generates -- that was a modified Mims project, some of the photocell
circuits i've built started from there too.

oh boy... the chimera looks like a LOT of fun and a really smart design.
Lots of things to play with and small. I might have to try it out...


k

On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 11:15 AM, lx rudis <lx.rudis at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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