[NewMusic] Flower ELectronics

[kristin miltner]

it's much easier to oggle gear than to say anything intelligent about the
cool article link Tim Perkis just sent.

k

On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 4:37 PM, barry threw <bthrew at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
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kristin miltner
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