[sdiy] Other resources mildly related to DIY synths?

[TIm Daugard]

> [] How to teach children Electronics

In my case.

Step -1: Play Bass

Step 0: Get him drum sticks. He decides he doesn't want to be a drummer. Put him
in choir.  After having several lead parts, he decides he doesn't want to be a
singer (changes mind later) ((several times each way)).

Step 1: Get him a guitar, teach (or have someone else teach) them how to play.
Buy them an amp and an effects box.

Step 2: He gets recruited, as the only one who knows how to play, for hish
school Jazz band.

Step 3: Build a great effects synthesis rack to play bass through. Out Hendrix,
Cream his tone.

Step 4: When he breaks a cable, teach him how to solder it. When you are making
a bunch of cables to go from the eight track to the patch panel, make him solder
them. When something fails, show him the schematic and the broken part.

Step 5: When his sports car breaks, let him fix it. Let him follow the wiring
diagram.

DO this and eventually you will hear, "I need to learn more of this electronics
stuff."

There is a second path involved that entails constantly fixing IBM computers,
but that uses less true electronics.

Tim Daugard
30.4078N 86.6227W

Who started by listening and building AM radio stuff and drooling a Ham radio
book my father picked up some where.

> [] What to do when one writes too much on mailing lists :-)

Stop and eat breakfast, cut down a tree, repair yard damage. If your not retired
go to work or go to bed.