[sdiy] Starting Point?

TERRY SHULTZ thx1138 at earthlink.net
Sat Oct 10 19:55:13 CEST 2020 

I find a different path here. 

Building circuits with other kids was a great indoor hobby as a kid from Indiana/Michigan.

Many of us built walkie-talkies in kit form and had loads of fun getting them to work.

Raiding my Grandfathers electrical shop for bits and pieces drew him into spending time with us kids and showing us proper soldering and construction methods. 

This not a sole experience for many of us as we all had to get help to get parts and make projects work safely. Pass on your knowledge to other kids, get them involved in building circuits. Many kids would love to do small projects and get better at something than video games and texting on cell phones.

I am teaching my 2 grandsons how to build a crystal radio and operate it. Unfortunately Rush Limbaugh’s radio station is near us so we are taking our projects to higher levels. Ham Radio was a favorite of mine and I am repairing my old system so my grandsons can try it out when they come over.

I have another item to say, If you wish kids to sound good in a band or orchestra, give them good instruments.

The same goes with starting out in electronics,  a good tool will always be a better place to start. Simple hand tools are not too expensive and will prevent mistakes in circuit building. EBAY has been a goldmine for me and I am still buying better gear for design work.

I don’t need to work anymore but I am still building Hi quality projects because now I have learned how to do more with less.

Sorry for the rave, but many times I wished I had more time to keep building gear..

Terry

> On Oct 9, 2020, at 11:24 PM, Roman Sowa <modular at go2.pl> wrote:
> 
> if I had one piece of advice to give to teenage me it would be: "go out, spend more time with other kids, forget about this electronic stuff it leads you to a dark hole"
> 
> Roman
> 
> W dniu 2020-10-10 o 00:49, Peter Pearson pisze:
>> Thinking about this more, if I had one piece of advice to give to teenage me, it would be to buy a proper soldering station like a Hakko 936 or similar (used are pretty cheap!) with a chisel tip.  If I could go back and do my first projects with a station that could actually solder instead of a plug straight in the wall radioshack iron I think I would've made a lot of progress a lot faster.  I'm sure my soldering was bad at the start but a garbage soldering iron was a big roadblock and made me think I was never going to learn.
>> 
>> On Fri, Oct 9, 2020 at 6:19 PM Jason Proctor <jason at redfish.net <mailto:jason at redfish.net>> wrote:
>> How is Waveform not Synth-Op? I'm not understanding.
>> 
>> 
>> On Fri, Oct 9, 2020 at 3:11 PM MTG <grant at musictechnologiesgroup.com <mailto:grant at musictechnologiesgroup.com>> wrote:
>> >
>> > There is so much great stuff out there, I was hoping Waveform would take
>> > the Tape-Op concept and make a Synth-Op magazine. I guess we are still
>> > waiting.
>> >
>> > On 10/9/2020 2:15 PM, David Simpson wrote:
>> > > Filmmaker here, but newbie to the synth community.
>> > >
>> > > I'd love to collaborate on this with those that have the contacts. I am
>> > > based in New York.
>> > >
>> > > - David
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > On Fri, Oct 9, 2020, 4:51 PM Peter Pearson <electrocontinuo at gmail.com <mailto:electrocontinuo at gmail.com>
>> > > <mailto:electrocontinuo at gmail.com <mailto:electrocontinuo at gmail.com>>> wrote:
>> > >
>> > >     2nd (10th?) for PAIA here.  I built their theremin in high school
>> > >     and never looked back.
>> > >
>> > >     It costs money, but I can highly recommend the tech mentoring course
>> > >     offered by The Analog Lab.  Jeff (the owner) used to be a keyboard
>> > >     tech for Pink Floyd during the glory days and managed their state of
>> > >     the art sound system back in the day (as well as working with
>> > >     Vangelis).  He's been doing synth repairs since Moogs and ARPs were
>> > >     new off the assembly line.  He also helped design the Octave Plateau
>> > >     Voyetra 8.  A few links along those lines:
>> > >
>> > >     https://www.theanaloglab.com/training <https://www.theanaloglab.com/training>
>> > >
>> > >     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OrU79WWztg&t=8s <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OrU79WWztg&t=8s>
>> > >
>> > >     https://louderthanwar.com/the-development-of-large-rock-sound-systems-chris-hewitt-book-review/ <https://louderthanwar.com/the-development-of-large-rock-sound-systems-chris-hewitt-book-review/>
>> > >
>> > >     --
>> > >
>> > >     As an aside off topic, I would love to see a video interview with
>> > >     Bernie Hutchins (or general documentary with people involved) about
>> > >     the genesis and evolution of Electronotes.  Is anybody on the list
>> > >     able to get him on the horn and open up about that?  The number of
>> > >     people that were involved in designing synthesizers when it was the
>> > >     wild west aren't getting any younger and we've already lost some big
>> > >     ones.  Would be good to preserve that history!!
>> > >
>> > >     On Fri, Oct 9, 2020 at 4:26 PM Kylee Kennedy <kmkennedy at gmail.com <mailto:kmkennedy at gmail.com>
>> > >     <mailto:kmkennedy at gmail.com <mailto:kmkennedy at gmail.com>>> wrote:
>> > >
>> > >         I believe PAIA is now the longest running modular DIY company.
>> > >         That honor used to be for Blacet but I'm still waiting for
>> > >         Synthcube to re-launch his line.
>> > >         Interesting that they are both known for Frac systems.
>> > >
>> > >         Kylee
>> > >
>> > >         On Fri, Oct 9, 2020 at 11:47 AM David G Dixon <dixon at mail.ubc.ca <mailto:dixon at mail.ubc.ca>
>> > >         <mailto:dixon at mail.ubc.ca <mailto:dixon at mail.ubc.ca>>> wrote:
>> > >
>> > >             Artie wrote: "In particular, PAiA has been doing this for,
>> > >             what, 20 years at
>> > >             least?"
>> > >
>> > >             I bought a PAiA Gnome kit when I was 12 years old.  I'm 56
>> > >             later this month.
>> > >             PAiA had been around for a good long while by that point as
>> > >             well, I think.
>> > >
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