[sdiy] Environmental, Concept, and "Subscription Modules"

[Czech Martin]

Another idea: why not use a LDR for sunlight detection.
Control voltages will depend on night/day, bright sky and rain.

I have heard about people recording the level of a lake for a year or so...

m.c.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl
> [mailto:owner-synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl]On Behalf Of john mahoney
> Sent: Donnerstag, 2. Oktober 2003 05:32
> To: synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl
> Cc: harrybissell; John L Marshall; Cynthia Webster
> Subject: Re: [sdiy] Environmental, Concept, and "Subscription Modules"
> 
> 
> Hey, somebody has to defend Cyn, here!
> 
> The idea has artistic merit, except for the subscription 
> thing, bah humbug!
> ;-) Public news tickers aren't new, there's a national debt 
> counter (in
> Times Square?), a Nuclear Countdown Clock... But, art is "off 
> topic," so on
> with the DIY (... he said, narrowly avoiding an artistic debate).
> 
> You can use a PC to grab the data off the Internet and send out the
> corresponding MIDI data. A MIDI/CV converter completes the job.
> 
> The trick is reading HTTP and writing MIDI, but it's 
> *theoretically* easy.
> Internet and MIDI functions are built into Microsoft's 
> Software Development
> Kits, for one. If I had the tools, I'd try it.
> 
> Now, you wanted that PC in a Modcan-compatible module, right...?
> --
> john
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "harrybissell" <harrybissell at prodigy.net>
> To: "John L Marshall" <john.l.marshall at gte.net>
> Cc: "Cynthia Webster" <cynthia.webster at gte.net>;
> <cgs_synth at yahoogroups.com>; "DIY" <synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl>
> Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2003 10:01 PM
> Subject: Re: [sdiy] Environmental, Concept, and "Subscription Modules"
> 
> 
> > Yeah definately !!!
> >
> > "I'll have what the lady on the FLOOR is having...."
> >
> > H^) harry
> >
> > John L Marshall wrote:
> >
> > > Cynthia,
> > >
> > > Too many triple lattes.
> > >
> > > Take care,
> > > John
> > > ------------------------------------------------------------------
> > > www.sound-photo.com
> > > ------------------------------------------------------------------
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Cynthia Webster" <cynthia.webster at gte.net>
> > > To: <cgs_synth at yahoogroups.com>; "DIY" 
> <synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl>
> > > Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2003 12:54 PM
> > > Subject: [sdiy] Environmental, Concept, and "Subscription Modules"
> > >
> > > > (from a thread on the CGS list)
> > > >
> > > > Environmental,  Concept and "Subscription Modules"
> > > >
> [big snip]
> 
>