[sdiy] Other resources mildly related to DIY synths?

[Nicolai Czempin]

TIm Daugard wrote:

>>[] How to teach children Electronics
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>In my case.
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This looks like a very long term plan. Anything for the shorter term?

>Step -1: Play Bass
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>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)).
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:-)

>Step 1: Get him a guitar, teach (or have someone else teach) them how to play.
>Buy them an amp and an effects box.
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>Step 2: He gets recruited, as the only one who knows how to play, for hish
>school Jazz band.
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>Step 3: Build a great effects synthesis rack to play bass through. Out Hendrix,
>Cream his tone.
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Could you please translate the poetic "out Hendrix, Cream his tone"? I 
don't understand it. I do know what Hendrix and Cream are/were, though :-)
What was different about this effects box to the one he had?

>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.
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>Step 5: When his sports car breaks, let him fix it. Let him follow the wiring
>diagram.
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I'll keep that in mind when my older son turns 18 in 11 years :-)

>DO this and eventually you will hear, "I need to learn more of this electronics
>stuff."
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Well, the nice thing is that I'm already hearing this. So the real 
question is how I should teach them stuff that they're not supposed to 
understand yet :-)

>There is a second path involved that entails constantly fixing IBM computers,
>but that uses less true electronics.
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My problems with IBM computers are usually solved by software-only 
means, i. e. reinstalling Windows yet again...

And please note that in my mail I wasn't looking for specific answers, 
but for pointers to e. g. mailing lists where questions of that kind 
would be on-topic. I don't want to clutter this list with basic 
electronics or audio stuff, for example.