[sdiy] Newbie alert :-)

[Nicolai Czempin]

john mahoney wrote:

>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "Nicolai Czempin" <nicolai.czempin at alcatel.de>
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>>Hmm. My default settings seem to send the reply to the poster
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>instead of
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>>the list. Or isn't that some kind of setting in the mailing list
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>server?
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>Everybody look at the new guy, stirring things up! ;-)
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Any comparisons to certain kinds of animals in certain kinds of shops 
are purely coincidental :-P

>Yes, Nicolai, it's like that. I just use "Reply to all" and delete the
>extraneous addresses, or cut & paste them into the CC filed (as with
>this message).
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What happens if I just use the default, e. g. have you received this 
message twice? I'm pretty sure that it is a listserver setting. Was the 
decision to make replies to-the-list conscious or accidental?

>>Boy! You guys are backward
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>LOL!! Yeah, well... um... yeah. Imagine, some guys want everything to
>be *analog*, too!
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Exactly :-) Like you were born in the last century or something. Or, 
..um, err... complaining about schematics that are "impure" :-)
At least being schizophrenic means I'm never alone!

>>I was expecting some kind of CAD package where I can point-and-click
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>my
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>>schematics, and using the same source I can
>>a) simulate the circuit
>>b) print out/web publish the schematics
>>c) generate the layout for PCB
>>And all that for free, of course. Hmm. Sounds like a good project
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>for an
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>>Eclipse plug-in. Maybe I'll get something fired up...
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>Ray Wilson's "Schematic Publisher" generates schematics for free. No
>sim and no PCB layout, though.
>http://www.musicfromouterspace.com/SchematicEditorPromo/schematicpubwebpage.html
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Just looking at the screenshots, this seems pretty cool. Now if only it 
were open-source. I'm not religous about it, but I really do prefer 
being able to scratch my own itches whenever I have to. I heard of some 
sourceforge projects, but they are usually for windows

>Ray's website has a lot of synth circuit designs, too, so it's
>definitely worth a visit:
>http://www.musicfromouterspace.com/
>His Sound Lab Mini-Synth is an all-in-one design with 2 VCOs, a VCF,
>etc. He sells PCBs for it. So there's another possibility for you.
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Yes, looks nice, but I'm wondering whether (watch out, more stirring!) 
people are really reading what I'm writing. I want something simple to 
get started! All these fascinating links I will save and look into at a 
stage when I'm a little more advanced. But for now I just want THE 
SIMPLEST THING THAT COULD POSSIBLY WORK (tm).

mfg nc