[sdiy] my annual DIY holiday project

[Scott Stites]

I'm gonna have to unsubscribe from this list - things that go on here just
too eerily run parallel with my own life.

I just sat down to screw around a bit more with the DC-2 circuit, and I hear
it - softly, in the background -
pop...pop...crackle....snap...snap...crackle....pop.  I did a quick-look
around - no breakfast cereals close to the setup.  Oh, no - not the DC-2 -
it really is a quiet circuit why is it...nope, turned it off completely,
still with the snapping and popping.  Not the modular!  Please not
the...nope, shut it down, too.  Still the crackling persists.  The D8?
Nyet.  I looked out my window at the pretty blue Christmas lights hanging
there, blinking away.....

I called my laboratory assitant who was in the next room watching Underdog
and had him flip off the outside Christmas lights.  No more crackle, no
snap, no pop.  Well, there's another thing either this old Sidekick amp or
the really crappy coax hanging from it is susceptible to.

Merry Christmas,
Scott


----- Original Message -----
From: "harrybissell" <harrybissell at prodigy.net>
To: "David Cornutt" <cornutt at hiwaay.net>
Cc: "synth diy" <synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl>
Sent: Sunday, December 05, 2004 7:30 PM
Subject: Re: [sdiy] my annual DIY holiday project


> well I assume that you are not serious... but
>
> If you used MANY phototransistors you will not
> need the colored acetate.
>
> If you used three (RGB)... you will sense almost nothing
> as the 'odds' of 50 lights (of the same color) being mostly
> 'on' or 'off' at the same time are about zero.
>
> I made a display in college that used four 120V lamps, with
> 'flasher buttons' inside a large plastic globe. even with four
> lamps it was RARE to have all off at the same time...
>
> rare and FREAKY if you were walking around at the time...
>
> (the display was called 'harry's brain' by the residents)
>
> H^) harry   (lights are out more often now...  ;^)
>
> David Cornutt wrote:
>
> > What kind of chaos does 150 blinking lights produce?
> > Get a bunch of phototransistors, put different colored bits of
> > acetate over each one, run them into opamps, and use the
> > outputs as control voltages. :-)
>