Bicycle Theremin

[Batz Goodfortune]

Y-ellow Y'all.

At 12:51 AM 01/29/00 -0500, Mike B (digiboy) wrote:
>>Today I had an interesting idea...
>>
>>Take two stationary bicycles and hook a bicycle generator (the roller that
>>fits against the wheel and powers the headlight) to each bike. Use the
>>voltage output to control the pitch and modulation of the theremin. The
>>theremin gets controlled by how fast the people on the bikes pedal..
>>
>>It might be possible to expand on the idea and have multiple bikes
>>controlling VCO, VCA, VCF, arpeggiator tempo, etc.
>>
>
>The cyclists ( No Pun intended) would probably grow fatigued and it would
>be difficult for them to maintain steady VC....might require "quantizing"
>them with a cattle prod or some other nasty motivational method.

>(Stuck at home on a Friday night... feeling a bit grouchy...sorry....)

Just hang a beer and a couple of doughnuts on a stick over their heads. Hey
it'd work for me. :)

Oh. But then it would be a `beer powered, doughnut augmented, bicycle
theremin.' Probably not quite what you want but it could take your mind
off a Friday night at home.

Be absolutely Icebox.

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