[sdiy] Madder More Extreme DIY? (was: Extreme DIY?)

[Toby Paddock]

Yes! I think tunable sparks are a great idea. If

Oh, that's weird, a tv show just ended with a "logo"
that was a  jacobs ladder sound and a graphic like an
old antenna and sparks. Must mean something.

Anyway, this was made by waving mag pickup
coils around a small jacobs ladder.
Not modulated or tunable or any of that cool stuff though.
http://www.seanet.com/~tpaddock/audio/mag_jacob.mp3

Later,
Toby Paddock

From: "R. D. Davis wrote:
>
> That still doesn't sound like a mad enough idea to satisfy tonight's
> craving for something a bit more, shall we say, unusual, but a
> slightly madder idea, of a related nature, did just occur to me: has
> anyone on this list built a modulated spark-gap transmitter used in
> conjunction with a jacobs ladder?  The output would be taken from both
> the sounds generated on radio receivers and from microphones near the
> sparks.  Ok, the FCC probably won't dig this neat-o sounding synthesis
> equipment, but I can see some very interesting possibilities with
> additional modifications to what I've mentioned, and one can't let a
> little thing like the FCC stand in the way of artistic progress, can
> one? ;-) I've already got a Jacob's ladder (alas, it's less than three
> feet high at the present time), so now I just need to build a spark
> gap x-mitter, which seems like an easy enough thing to
> build... [muhahaha]
>
> RDD
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