[sdiy] just when you think DIY spirit is fading out

[Roman Sowa]

The answer why it should not sound odd to you is already included in 
your comment. Let me explain

DIY in 1990's:
new kinds of VCO, various experiments with filter topologies, new 
methods of mangling audio and CV, crazy concepts out of the blue, 
various techniques of temperature compensation, detailed transistor 
parameters analysis and discussion, overly complex solutions to simple 
tasks, attempts to make analog circuits do what seemed to be impossible 
before, that list is endless.

DIY in 2020's:
"can anybody post a schematics of 40106 oscillator, preferably with 
Gerber files?"

Don't get me wrong, I have nothing against 40106, I also have the PCB 
for it ready to solder, although it's not really 40106 but HC14, as I 
prefer the sound of it. I know that nowadays doing anything with fingers 
outside phone screen is considered amazing activity, but it's not the 
definition of DIY I'm looking for. Last weekend I went to a DIY 
tradeshow, yes that sounds awkward, how personal DIY could be so 
commercialized so they make tradeshows in serious tradeshow venue, the 
one which hosted UN climate change conference and events bigger than 
that. This is happening now, DIY is starting to be just catchy thing for 
marketing, when one-man business with easily high tech outsourcing 
services available around every corner and cheap advanced machines from 
China is able to make more amazing stuff than big industry did 40 years 
ago. Or maybe 20. But is it still DIY?

OTOH as never before we can witness so many large DIY projects like 
polysynths or their modifications, so indeed, possibly my topic 
statement was slightly off.

Roman

PS. to answer Michael's question - that blog was inluded in the circle 
together with 80 others, so not a clear pointer anyway, but also it is 
written by a member of THIS group. A long time member to be exact.


W dniu 2021-10-22 o 20:14, Sean Ellis via Synth-diy pisze:
> I find the premise of this topic a bit odd myself. There's never been 
> a better time for diy anything, let alone synths. Lots of people 
> making 40106 drone synths and selling them if you look at Etsy or Tindie.
>
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> *From:* Synth-diy <synth-diy-bounces at synth-diy.org> on behalf of 
> Michael Zacherl <sdiy-mz01 at blauwurf.info>
> *Sent:* Thursday, 21 October 2021 9:39 AM
> *To:* Synth-diy <Synth-diy at synth-diy.org>
> *Subject:* Re: [sdiy] just when you think DIY spirit is fading out
>
>
> > On 19.10.2021, at 16:17, Roman Sowa <modular at go2.pl> wrote:
> > Re: [sdiy] just when you think DIY spirit is fading out
>
> Hi Roman, why would you think that ?
>
> > While reading some blog update
>
> Now you made me curious: what was it?
> :) m.
>
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