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

[Oren Leavitt]

The sounds Isao Tomita and Walter/Wendy Carlos in the early 1970's, and 
a budding interest in audio electronics. Eventually I started tinkering 
with, designing, building synth ciruitry in the early 1980's.
I was eventually abducted by aliens and given a career in computers and 
software development, but my favorite programming language still is, and 
will always be, solder!

- Oren (reaching for the switch on the ol' Weller...)

Veronica Merryfield wrote:
> 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:
>>
> 
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