[sdiy] Timbreon

[Terry Ahrens]

Hey Batz,
Charles Osthelder posted plans for a ribbon controller he designed using
resistive material from a grounding cuff. The plans can be found at
www.wiseguysynth.com.
The cuff itself is item # 17250 from www.desco.com.
I purchased one for around $10. Maybe this could be a partial solution.
~Terry

>I've also tried the trick that's spoze to work with video tape. Buggered
>if 
>I can get that to work. A piece of 1/2 inch video tape is spoze to be 
>slightly conductive and increases fairly lineally with length. I couldn't 
>get anything useful out of that. Not with the range of samples I tried 
>anyway. Likewise with conductive mylar. The type of stuff used in IC 
>anti-static packaging. My guess is that whatever is conductive in these 
>materials is like a layer witin a laminate. So that from the surface it's 
>an insulator but has a sheilding property. Or in the case of video tape,
>is 
>covered by a binding layer perhaps.
>