[sdiy] DIY Culture (was TI to buy NatSemi!!!!!)

[lanterma at ece.gatech.edu]

On Apr 10, 2011, at 1:06 PM, Donald Tillman wrote:

> So, while Heathkit is not coming back, and indeed there was a scarcity of DIY culture about the time Heathkit called it quits, I can't imagine a better time for DIY culture than now.

I'm 100% on this.

The big thing, for me, is the fact that it's so much easier now for people to form communities to talk about this stuff (this mailing list of course being a canonical example, but also things like the electro-music forums, muff wiggler, etc.)

If it wasn't for this list, my "Electronics for Music Synthesis" class wouldn't exist - there are many people on this list orders of magnitude more qualified to teach such a class than me. I feel blessed that I can learn from their wisdom, and try to share at least a small part of that with my students.

- Aaron