[sdiy] Legoize Sound!

[Oren Leavitt]

I had a similar kit back around 1975 or so - A metal base plane and plastic blocks with a discrete circuit component in each, and magnetic connectors on the sides and bottom. The kit you describe, Dave, might have been ithe one I had. The 1967 (January I think...) issue of Popular Electronics features an article and a picture on the cover of a large lego-like kit made by Egger.
I have an old Gakken 'MyKit 7' - it kinda looks like small modular synth :)

Oren

-----Original Message-----
From: Dave Magnuson <resfreq at hoohahrecords.com>
Sent: Jun 9, 2004 4:39 AM
To: Colin Hinz <asfi at eol.ca>, Synth-Diy <synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl>
Subject: Re: [sdiy] Legoize Sound!

I think I used to have one of these sets.  The kit I had as a kid looked
very much like the "EX-150" they show.  It was great fun.... the plastic
cubes had contacts on up to 4 sides, and placing blocks side-by-side would
connect them.  There was a power supply, audio amplifier and a few other
goodies on the "back plane" and you snapped resistors, diodes, transistors
together to create a circuit.

Dave




At 03:37 AM 6/9/04 -0400, Colin Hinz wrote:
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>>From the light-hearted and idle speculation dep't:
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>(not to be taken *too* terribly seriously, that is)
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>Ages and ages ago, I thought that instead of having a pile of
>behind-a-panel electronics which were wired up using patch cords
>(or internal connections amounting to the same thing), wouldn't
>it be cool if synthesizer building blocks were actual blocks, like
>LEGO bricks, that snapped onto a baseplate, and where the blocks
>adjoined, connections would be made.....
>
>Well sonofagun, it appears that a Japanese company has figured
>out how to make such a system. In their product, the individual
>modules are discrete components, and not functional blocks, but
>it looks like the concept *could* be made to work:
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>http://kids.gakken.co.jp/kit/otona/vol07.html
>
>(not that I understand a word of Japanese, of course.....)
>
>Hmmmmm, I wonder if my nephew (now aged 10) still has his
>stash of great big LEGO Duplo blocks.... :=)
>
>- Colin Hinz
>  Toronto, Canada
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