OT Gateway to a life of SDIY, was Re: [sdiy] The price of copper (you couldnt make this up!)

[Veronica Merryfield]

Early 80's music. I wanted a synth but saturday job money wasn't going  
to cut it, but I had noticed a synth on the front of an electronics  
magazine. I didn't build it, but I started learning, which lead to  
designing and building my own. Many years later, I still mess around  
with analogue, fpga and soft synths. Currently working on an additive  
soft synth inspired by the synergy and my fretless bass synth project.

Music also got me into luthery too. I wanted a bass to go with the  
synths, bought one cheap and learnt than wanted a steinberger but  
still had not much money, so I made my first bass.

My career has been in embedded electronics and software to cover my  
synth and luthery habits :)

Veronica

PS I think we did this thread recently, but happy to go round again.  
Always gets written slightly differently each time :)

PPS another interesting and not so OT thread would be music  
influences :)

On 2009-11-20, at 9:20 PM, Kyle Stephens wrote:

> Copper theft is but a gateway crime!
>
> "We just thought it was going to deal with all the copper that was  
> being stolen," San Jose police Officer Jermaine Thomas said. "Soon  
> enough it went from copper to guns, then stolen vehicles and then  
> drug transactions."
>
> http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/01/23/BAO8UKEPF.DTL
>
> In the interest of being OT, what is/was your gateway into SDIY? My  
> dad taught me how to read schematics when I was a kid, and when I  
> learned that a lot of the industrial acts I was into in high school  
> used analog modulars, and that there were other crazies doing the  
> whole DIY thing...well, here I am today :]
>
>
> _Kyle
>
> --- On Fri, 11/20/09, Veronica Merryfield  
> <veronica.merryfield at shaw.ca> wrote:
>