[sdiy] open letter to Aaron Lanterman

[Aaron Lanterman]

On May 7, 2010, at 8:50 AM, Harry Bissell wrote:

> The student projects look cool... I hope that they will write reports that will be
> posted online somewhere. Call me "old school" or "luddite" but YouTube does not make
> it for me as a conduit for information. 
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> YouTube is not going to benefit these students when they are presenting their designs
> to the big boss, eh... maybe they should use PowerPoint :^)


The taking/posting of video was not in any way a formal part of the project; they are going to do brief final reports, and I'm going to post those.

When I had the first student demo their project, I thought "hey, I should get some of this on video." I had the cheap flip camcorder I had been using to record my lectures in my bag, and hit record. Unfortunately it appears that the mic overloads pretty badly if someone behind the camera (me) talks. Is the recording I made of the Moog highpass filter kind of crappy (I mean the recording, not the circuit)? Yes. But how many other examples of the sound of that kind of topology are you going to find?

They are merely snapshots - Polaroids - capturing of moments - a brief glimpse to the world at large as to what these students have been up to. You can get whatever fun or (admittedly minimal) information you can out of them as you wish, or not, as you see fit.

- Aaron