[sdiy] Legoize Sound!

[Colin Hinz]

>From the light-hearted and idle speculation dep't:

(not to be taken *too* terribly seriously, that is)

Ages and ages ago, I thought that instead of having a pile of
behind-a-panel electronics which were wired up using patch cords
(or internal connections amounting to the same thing), wouldn't
it be cool if synthesizer building blocks were actual blocks, like
LEGO bricks, that snapped onto a baseplate, and where the blocks
adjoined, connections would be made.....

Well sonofagun, it appears that a Japanese company has figured
out how to make such a system. In their product, the individual
modules are discrete components, and not functional blocks, but
it looks like the concept *could* be made to work:

http://kids.gakken.co.jp/kit/otona/vol07.html

(not that I understand a word of Japanese, of course.....)

Hmmmmm, I wonder if my nephew (now aged 10) still has his
stash of great big LEGO Duplo blocks.... :=)

- Colin Hinz
  Toronto, Canada