[sdiy] Re: The "Lanterman" Drive

[Harry Bissell Jr]

LOL... This has probably gone far enough...

I'm sorry about their little 'inside joke'...
They are actually not students of yours, they
are students of mine.  "Resident Aliens"... in the
most fundamental sense of the word. They are taking
what might translate to "Fundamentals of Archaic
Technology 101"

>From the schematic, it appears that they copied a part
of the block diagram from what might translate to
"Lanterman Drive".. from their vehicle. (The part
right
under the label "Caution, no user servicable parts
inside".

You have to admit, its the kind of ironic and funny
things that kids do. But, its gone far enough...

When they get back... I will have some fun at their
expense... a special project just for them.  I'm
thinking they will have to design a build a BBD based
through-zero delta time modulator... Through zero in
this case means positive ~and~ negative temporal
coefficients.  When they get that they will REALLY
understand how a "Lanterman Drive" works in the real
world.

Professor H^) abu-Jedi

--- Aaron Lanterman <lanterma at ece.gatech.edu> wrote:

> 
> See
>
http://users.ece.gatech.edu/~lanterma/studentprojects
> 
> * pitch-to-voltage converter based on a National
> chip
> * VC phaser
> * Wrecktifier Waveshaper (quite novel)
> * Dr. Acula's *GVwow* box (HP/LP
> sallen-key-OTA-based cascade, optimized 
> to sound cool with a guitar)
> * VC Morley Wah
> * VC Twin-T oscillator (didn't work out too be too
> practical - I didn't 
> think it would, but I thought it would be
> interesting exercise to try)
> * Comparision of OTAs (very thorough lab work)
> * Dual Sallen-Key-vactrol-type HP/LP cascade
> * Scream Machine (was supposed to be a Rene MS-20
> with CMOS buffers - the 
> result is technically "broken" but sounds so
> insanely cool I told them 
> _not_ to fix it, as I would have no idea how to
> reproduce the crazy sound 
> the got!)
> * Clone of Music Easel Timbre Generator (didn't work
> out as expected)
> 
> More to come!
> 
> - Aaron
> 
>
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