[sdiy] RADCASTle senior design project

[David G. Dixon]

Aaron,

Very cool!  Congratulations to your fourth-year students for a job well
done!  I am thinking about pursuing something similar to put a bunch of
analog boards under digital control, and this is very inspiring.

Maybe I'll have to take my next sabbatical in Georgia!

Cheers,
Dave Dixon

David G. Dixon
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: synth-diy-bounces at dropmix.xs4all.nl [mailto:synth-diy-
> bounces at dropmix.xs4all.nl] On Behalf Of Aaron Lanterman
> Sent: Sunday, May 03, 2009 2:40 AM
> To: Synth DIY
> Subject: [sdiy] RADCASTle senior design project
> 
> Last semester I taught a section of our Senior Design Project class.
> 
> I had a team of four students who created a hybrid synth with analog
> sound generating circuitry consisting of Ray Wilson's boards (three
> VCA boards, one VCO, one state variable VCF, and one noise generator)
> controlled via a PIC through D/A converters, etc. on custom boards
> they made. The interfaces uses rotary encoders surrounded by LEDs.
> MIDI input, four preset buttons. Each encoder has its own tiny cheap
> PIC.
> 
> It was quite simply the most ambitious senior design project I'd ever
> seen.
> 
> They didn't quite get it all the way working last semester - I didn't
> mind since it was so ambitious - but it did make noise. This Spring
> semester one of the students signed up to do "special
> problems" (basically "independent study") credit with me to put on the
> finishing touches.
> 
> Behold: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1RXHcUwao0
> 
> Enjoy!
> 
> We're going to post all the docs - final report, microcontroller code,
> schematics, PCB layouts, EAGLE files, etc.
> 
> - Aaron
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