[NewMusic] Flower ELectronics

[barry threw]

You kidding? I just started reading again.

b

On Feb 27, 2008, at 3:48 PM, lx rudis wrote:

> god we are such geeks.  has everyone unsubbed yet?
>
> :D
>
> On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 12:40 PM, kristin miltner <miltnerunit at gmail.com 
> >
> wrote:
>
>> 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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>>
>>
>> --
>> kristin miltner
>> audio professional
>> www.myspace.com/miltnerunit
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