[sdiy] contest idea

[Scott Gravenhorst]

rude66 <rude66 at gmail.com> wrote:
>not really fair.. what some of you people have 'laying around' is more than
>my whole studio..;-)

Agreed.  There's such a variation in what people have, that there is no comparing.

A while back, there were a couple of challenges that were more "fair", such as a whole
synth made out of 4069UB as active parts, or a whole synth made out of LM3900 as the only
active parts or a whole synth built of nothing but 2N3904 transistors.

To my knowledge, the only one of those that is close to ever being completed is the
4069UB one.  Osamu Hoshuyama made an excellent attempt, he even put together CMOS OTAs. 
Go here: http://www5b.biglobe.ne.jp/~houshu/synth/



>(actually that's not really true, i have 2 serge slope generators 'laying
>around' for instance..;-)
>
>i like the 'junk' part.. or how about the most unusual use of non-musical
>parts for musical use? a ring modulator made from parts of a hair dryer and
>an air conditioning unit? or metasonix' use of tv-tubes for an oscillator?
>something like that..
>
>r./
>
>
>On 2/1/06, anthony <aankrom at bluemarble.net> wrote:
>>
>> I had an idea for a contest. Since I'm always trying to find ways to use
>> what electronics parts I have at hand I thought it might be a cool idea t=
>o
>> have a contest to see who could make the coolest piece of DIY gear using
>> only what they already have and buying nothing. There could be two
>> catagories: one with ONLY parts that have been salvaged from junk and one
>> that would allow for parts bought a while ago.
>>
>> I mean I just know some of you have some really cool parts that you just
>> haven't been able to squeeze into anything yet.
>>
>> I'm hoping that as my current phase of austerity fades away once more tha=
>t
>> I
>> have not lost the creative edge that I think I have fostered in the mean
>> time.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>

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