AW: [sdiy] RE: how it all started

[Thomas Dunker]

On Mon, 9 Feb 2004, Nils Pipenbrinck wrote:

> Oh memories...
>
> I started with the "Phillips Experimentierkasten" series.. I had everything
> from the simplest two tranny starter-kit up to the diy-oscilloscope.

 I had the first two kits only, but I remember drooling over the
brochures with the scope and everything. All I can remember building from
those was some multivibrator-based flashing lightbulb thing.
 My best friend through childhood was also into electronic, but he's
always been miles ahead of me. A lot of the time we were mostly ripping
old TVs and radios apart, using bits and pieces of them, an amp board
here, a speaker there. When we were about 12, we had a pirate FM radio station.
The 2-transistor transmitter ran off a 12V tractor battery. None of us had
a charger, so when we were out of juice that was the end of the radio
station.
 The only thing remotely related to synthetic sound from back then was
when we would "circuit bend" different point-to-point kits to try to
create intersting sounds. My friend Roger had a "MYKIT 50-in-one" which we had
a lot of fun with. Later I got a step-up kit called (Gakken) MYKIT 200,
which made a number of oscillators, radio circuits etc. possible. I still
have it, but the manual has gone missing - so if anybody happens to have
one available for copies...

Thomas Dunker