FWD:Re: [sdiy] new MOTM + DIY site

[Scott Gravenhorst]

Actually, it's totally modular, where a "module" can be as small as an IC, or even
a resistor!

Years ago, in the days of "hobby computers", when some of us put kits together to
get a whopping one megahertz of raw 8 bit power (I still have mine!), there was an
article in Popular Electronics in which there was a picture of a computer someone
had built from various pieces of vector board and whatever else, connected
together with what appeared to be miles of wire.  The builder also owned a cat
who, for a reason I now forget, managed to pull about half of it (it covered a
table that looked like about 5'x3') down to the floor in a waterfall like cascade.
 There was a photo which I wish I had.  Amazingly, the computer was still
functional.  The owner admitted that he had no intention of attempting to move it
back to it's original placement since it was working as is.

Talk about *ugly*...  One day, I'll give SDIY a peek behind my first FatMan.

"Scott Stites" <scottnoanh at peoplepc.com> wrote:
>Hi Scott,
>
>I have some pictures of a previous configuration, but I re-wired it this past
>week to make it less of a jungle.  I wasn't very successful in reducing the
>cluster-F factor, but the grounding/power distribution is better (relatively
>speaking).  I'll have my brother come over tonight with his digital camera and
>snap some pics, then I'll send them to you.
>
>If this is some kind of record, I better document it!  It really is truly ugly.
>Remember that post a while back with the link to the guy who had PCB's on canvas
>for a 'roll-up' type of synth?  My setup makes that one look like a Moog Voyager.
>Maybe I should call it the Coyote Synth =0).  It's the only functional synth I
>know of that requires a wrist strap.
>
>Take care,
>Scott S.
>
>On Sun, 23 Feb 2003, Scott Gravenhorst wrote:
>
>> Wow!  Do you have pics?  This has to be a record!  And here I
>> thought I was bad recording through ONE circuit on SB.  I'm
>> usually motivated to move them to stripboard when I run out
>> of room on the SB...
>> 
>> >> Heh.....
>> >> I guess I  have a different sort of virtual synth.....90%
>> >> of it is on
>> >> solderless breadboard until I get things soldered to PCB
>> >> and put behind
>> >> panels.  I've got a dual VCA, two VCF's, a VCO, an EG, a
>> >> sample and hold,
>> >> white noise generator, two LFO's, a phase shifter, a
>> >> short delay circuit, a
>> >> lag processor and an assortment of inverters and mixers,
>> >> all interconnected
>> >> on 8 different breadboards.  The only thing I have on PCB
>> >> right now is a Ken
>> >> Stone Wave Multiplier, a keyboard matrix and a keyboard
>> >> controller.  It's
>> >> quite ugly, but surprisingly stable, considering the
>> >> medium....
>> >> 
>> >> I figure if these circuits can live through *that*,
>> >> they'll do just fine in
>> >> a synth =0)
>> >> 
>> >> Scott
>> 
>> 
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- A smoking gun is one that's already been fired.
- That which gets rewarded, gets done.
- What good are laws that only lawyers understand?
- Government: The other religion.
- The media's credibility should always be questioned.

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