[sdiy] Telharmonium motors, perhaps?

[Tim Parkhurst]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gene Stopp [mailto:gene at ixiacom.com]
> Sent: Monday, November 22, 2004 2:50 PM
> To: synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl
> Subject: RE: [sdiy] Telharmonium motors, perhaps?
> 
> > I worked for a motion control company for about two years
> 
> So *that's* where the "Servo" in your name comes from! Unless of course
you
> are a major MST3K fan. Which is understandable in a crowd like this.
> 
It's both, actually. The motion control work was fun (designed lots of VME
rack stuff), AND I'm an MST3K nut. I've got tapes of most of the newer
episodes and boxes of tapes from the "Joel" episodes.


> I think it was in an old Crowhurst book that I read about a VCO that was
> actually a tape playback with the motor speed (and therefore the pitch)
> under voltage control. Seems to me that with a tach output it would be
> fairly easy to phase lock a DC motor to a regular VCO. One could use tape,
> or a metal disk with teeth and edge pickup, or optical disk...
> 
> - Gene
> 

And Feature Creep strikes again!!!


Tim (boxes and boxes) Servo

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