[sdiy] Chip ID

[Florian Anwander]

Hi Paul 

> If any of the Europeans on the list could give a few keywords like
> 'voltage controlled  filter' and 'schematic' I'd be grateful.
> Also what does google do with the non-english characters?
> 
> paul perry melbourne australia
> (I have a musician from germany doing some tech work at the moment,
> if anyone has any good german diy electronic links)

The non english characters are the umlauts (a, u and o with kind of double
quotes over the character). They may be paraphrased in two ways: The more
commonis an added "e" like ae, oe, ue; capitals are like Ae, Oe, Ue. Some usenet
users write it with doublequotes before the vowel, like "a "o or "u. The same
for capitals.

I think, most of the german diy addicts, that like to share their knwoledge, are
connected to this list ;-)


But here are some key words:

VCO -> spannungsgesteuerter Oszillator
(voltage=Spannung; to control=steuern; controlled=gesteuert)
VCF 

There are different gramatical genders used for "Filter": male or neuter
VCF ->  spannungsgesteuertes Filter 
     or spannungsgesteuerter Filter

Envelope -> Huellkurve (This is H_u-umlaut_llkurve)

LFO -> Modulationsgenerator

PCB -> Platine

schematic -> Schaltplan

soldering iron -> Loetkolben (again, the second char is originally an umlaut).

drum machine -> Rhythmusmaschine

sequencer -> Sequenzer


BTW: There is a nearly perfect online dictionary english<->german:
http://dict.leo.org

You may enter umlauts as ae, oe, ue

You may access the dictionary from the unix/linux-commandline with a short
script:

#!/bin/sh
/opt/hppd/bin/lynx -dump http://dict.leo.org/?search=$1  | grep -i $1

$1 is the word you want to have translated.


kind regards

Florian
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