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My first electronics project was a siren (sophomore in high school
electronics class) that ran off 9v. When powered by 4.5v it was right
in the range of a real siren. Ran it through my friend's Twin Reverb
amp, pointed it out the window, and had cars pulling over in the
street.... great fun.<br>
I built a Craig Anderton design phaser from a kit. It didn't work. Sent
it in and Craig himself fixed it - it was a bad 741. He told me my
wiring job was a lot better than some of the cr*p he'd seen.<br>
My first year of college I got hold of the schematics of some of the
original PAIA 2700 modules and built a few, with limited success. My
senior year for Analog lab at UC Berkeley I built a VCO (the core was a
PAIA design), made my own PCB and everything. Got an A.<br>
When out of college and working as a design engineer at Precision
Monolithics, I discovered Electronotes, and SSM and CEM chips, and
began synth building in earnest. Here's my original OGEE synth that I
built around 1979 - 1981 at
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://home.comcast.net/~sbernardi/elec/ogee_home.html">http://home.comcast.net/~sbernardi/elec/ogee_home.html</a>. My current
synth is at <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://home.comcast.net/~sbernardi/elec/og2/og2_home.html">http://home.comcast.net/~sbernardi/elec/og2/og2_home.html</a>.<br>
Electronotes hands down was my best resource. <br>
For a first project, a kit is best. PAIA Fatman, maybe an ASM-1.<br>
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wood wrote:<br>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">hey everybody, i have been on the
list for a several weeks now and have enjoyed all the information so
far. although alot of it is way over my head, i think this forum is
right up my alley, as they say. what i would like to know from you
all is... how did you get into this? what made you decide to start
making your own music machines? what was your fist diy project? how
did it work out for you ( did you bite off more than you could chew, or
was it a smooth operation)? what would you say, besides sdiy, was the
most important resource to you when you started (a book or project or
mentor) and what would you fine folks recommend as a good beginner
project. i know that is kind of alot, but i am curious.</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">thanks for all the info thus far and
for all you may provide in the future.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Easy Data Music<br>
<a href="http://www.easydatamusic.com">www.easydatamusic.com</a></font></div>
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Scott Bernardi
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:sbernardi@comcast.net">sbernardi@comcast.net</a></pre>
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