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

[David G. Dixon]

> 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

I tried my first SDIY when I was about 11 (PAiA Gnome), but I didn't inhale.
About two years ago I discovered MFOS while surfing YouTube, and got all
twitchy.  I was just going to do some recreational SDIY -- building a few
circuits off the web, etc -- but soon I was hitting the hard stuff:
designing circuits, etching boards.  I knew I had a problem when I started
trolling neighborhood street-corners at night, looking for a fix -- a junked
out with two keyboards.

Hey John, ain't being 45 grand?