[sdiy] Old student projects

[Aaron Lanterman]

On May 7, 2010, at 11:58 PM, Dave Manley wrote:

> You might want to put a link on your home page pointing to this stuff.  I wandered around through your links and couldn't find them.

Ah, yes... I initially had a reason for making it a bit obscure. Some of you may recall the story about our janitorial staff throwing out a box of the projects from the Fall and Spring 2006 semesters, having mistaken it for trash. :(

So I basically re-listed a lot of those project ideas; I wanted the students to start "fresh" on them, and not let what previous students had done influence their design choices. So I took out the link (or never put one in, or something).

I have enough project ideas now that that's kind of a moot point; I should put in an easy to find pointer.

> One thing I found cool (politically incorrect as this may sound) is that there are people other than old white guys interested in synthesizer technology.  :-)

The enthusiasm of the students is wonderful. 

I've been toying with the idea of doing a class on something like "electronics for guitar amplification and effects" - tube amp circuits, fuzz face & tube screamer solid-state distortion circuits, phasers...

...maybe even flangers with BBDs... ;)

If I did such a thing it would be several years out, since I'd need to learn how tubes work first, at least enough to pretend that I know what I'm talking about. :)

- Aaron