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

[David Ingebretsen]

My dad was an electrical engineer and pretty much everything in our house
was a "Heathkit". In high school, I heard "Switched on Bach" and wanted to
build a Moog. Turns out my neighbor was Nyle Steiner who gave me schematics
to all his Synthasystem modules (long since thrown out :( ) and he hired me
for a summer to stuff PCB's for him. But life happened, and the bug lay
dormant for 35 years til last summer when a mid-life crisis dictated either
a motorcycle or a modular. I think now my wife would have preferred the
motorcycle...

David

~~ -----Original Message-----
~~ From: synth-diy-bounces at dropmix.xs4all.nl [mailto:synth-diy-
~~ bounces at dropmix.xs4all.nl] On Behalf Of john at hvidlykke.dk
~~ Sent: Saturday, November 21, 2009 9:05 AM
~~ To: Synth DIY
~~ Subject: SV: OT Gateway to a life of SDIY, was Re: [sdiy] The price of
~~ copper (you couldnt make this up!)
~~ 
~~ How I ended up in this condition?
~~ 
~~ It is the usual story: Some friends at at party did it, and soon I took
up
~~ the hard stuff:
~~ 
~~ In my case, I started out with circuit bending two years ago, which was
~~ great fun. And some of my toy-mangling compatriots were into SDIY too. So
~~ I
~~ goot hooked on that as well. My aim and excuse for taking up the habit
was
~~ to combine the two fields into having voltage controlled bent circuits.
~~ 
~~ Well, besides the above, I also dabbled with analogue synths in my youth
~~ (in
~~ the early 80's), but never got around to actually owning one. Five years
~~ ago, when turning fourty, I decided I was pretty much old enough to
decide
~~ for myself, and bought my first synth. So here goes midlife crisis ;-)
~~ 
~~ Cheers
~~ 
~~ John
~~ 
~~ 
~~ 
~~ 
~~ On 2009-11-20, at 9:20 PM, Kyle Stephens wrote:
~~ 
~~ > Copper theft is but a gateway crime!
~~ >
~~ >
~~ > 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:
~~ >
~~ 
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