<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div><span>Handmade Electronic Music by Nicholas Collins covers ALL this, ,and much more!</span></div><div><span><br></span></div> <div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" style="display: block;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div dir="ltr"><font size="2" face="Arial"> On Sunday, March 12, 2017 2:54 PM, "rsdio@audiobanshee.com" <rsdio@audiobanshee.com> wrote:<br></font></div> <br><br> <div class="y_msg_container">Hmm, except that a bunch of 4066 chips would cost less than 4 cents per note switch - I don't see how you can hand-make LED+LDR gates for that cheap. You'd also get more bleed with the LDR, I expect. No, it's not all about cost, but time and labor, too.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Brian<br clear="none"><br clear="none"><div class="yqt7956267286" id="yqtfd85637"><br clear="none">On Mar 11, 2017, at 11:48 PM, Elain Klopke <<a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:functionofform@gmail.com" href="mailto:functionofform@gmail.com">functionofform@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br clear="none">> So it just hit me that this would be an interesting and cheapish way to do the keying of all the notes on my paraphonic synth project instead of a bunch of 4066s.<br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> of course, after I placed the order, my brain did one of those old Master Card commercials...<br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> bag of LDRs on eBay: $12<br clear="none">> bag of LEDs on MPJA: $8<br clear="none">> 16 feet of heatshrink tubing: $4<br clear="none">> realising you just signed up to burn your fingers 400 times: Priceless.<br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none">_______________________________________________<br clear="none">Synth-diy mailing list<br clear="none"><a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:Synth-diy@synth-diy.org" href="mailto:Synth-diy@synth-diy.org">Synth-diy@synth-diy.org</a><br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="http://synth-diy.org/mailman/listinfo/synth-diy" target="_blank">http://synth-diy.org/mailman/listinfo/synth-diy</a><br clear="none"></div><br><br></div> </div> </div> </div></div></body></html>