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Subject: Re: [motm] oh no - lightbulb joke approaching:

From: The Old Crow <oldcrow@...>
Date: 2001-04-05

On Thu, 5 Apr 2001, sikorsky wrote:

> you could actually find a suitably random lightbulb, point an LDR at
> it and use the LDR to attenuate a voltage source, say the sustain
> control on a MOTM#800 Envelope Generator, and pipe THAT into the CV
> input of the voltage contolled router, adjusting threshold to taste

Oddly enough, Disney does exactly this for simulating gaslamp flicker.
Their light source is a cluster of neon bulbs with simple RC charging
circuits attached, each with a different time constant. LDR feeds lamp
dimmer circuit.

Crow

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