[sdiy] Legoize Sound!

[Scott Gravenhorst]

Hmm.  I kind of like the old SBB...  Much more compact.  

And I saw, quite recently, at the Southern California SDIY meet 
an example of an SBB used actively in a synth module!

Oren Leavitt <oleavitt at ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>I had a similar kit back around 1975 or so - A metal base plane 
>and plastic blocks with a discrete circuit component in each, and 
>magnetic connectors on the sides and bottom. The kit you 
>describe, Dave, might have been ithe one I had. The 1967 (January 
>I think...) issue of Popular Electronics features an article and 
>a picture on the cover of a large lego-like kit made by Egger. I 
>have an old Gakken 'MyKit 7' - it kinda looks like small modular 
>synth :) 
>
>Oren
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Dave Magnuson <resfreq at hoohahrecords.com>
>Sent: Jun 9, 2004 4:39 AM
>To: Colin Hinz <asfi at eol.ca>, Synth-Diy <synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl>
>Subject: Re: [sdiy] Legoize Sound!
>
>I think I used to have one of these sets.  The kit I had as a kid looked
>very much like the "EX-150" they show.  It was great fun.... the plastic
>cubes had contacts on up to 4 sides, and placing blocks side-by-side would
>connect them.  There was a power supply, audio amplifier and a few other
>goodies on the "back plane" and you snapped resistors, diodes, transistors
>together to create a circuit.
>
>Dave
>
>
>
>
>At 03:37 AM 6/9/04 -0400, Colin Hinz wrote:
>>
>>
>>>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
>>
>>
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