[sdiy] History of SDIY?

[Pete Hartman]

On Wed, May 30, 2018 at 9:47 AM, Chromatest J. Pantsmaker <
chromatest at azburners.org> wrote:

> If I may...
> I believe the original intent of the question was to help limit the scope
> of a project the OP is considering. It was never about this list in
> itself.  Nobody is proposing to pigeonhole or limit the definition of
> topics or valid members of this list. The OP is requesting information to
> help make his project more manageable, or to help give him a focus to get
> started.
>
> Like all other things sdiy, the OP asked this list for help on his sdiy
> project, which coincidentally, is not creating, modifying, or building a
> software *OR* a hardware Synth.
>
>
>

Yes, indeed, this is a very succinct statement of what I think about this
as well.

I don't think anyone here wants to tell any other list member "this is off
topic for this list", but rather to kick around what each of us thinks the
boundaries typically are *for us*.

I don't disagree with the statements that

SDIY includes pure software
SDIY includes what may be considered by some R&D or invention rather than
just copying

But for *ME* in my head, the main thing I think of when someone asks me
about what I do and call SDIY is building sound
generation/processing/controlling modules out of physical electronics that
first and foremost are for me/my system.  That's where I started on this
path, and that's where I go back to if I wander away (into things like
repair etc).

I have no problem if the list gets used for any/all of the subjects that
have passed through this thread, but I'm only ever going to bring certain
topics to this audience because of my own definition of SDIY.

So I think it's important to understand that when I say "SDIY means this to
me" I am NOT saying "and it better mean that to you too".  Pretty sure from
other interactions with him that Quincas feels the same :)

Pete
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