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Subject: Re: [motm] Hamster music

From: Richard Brewster <pugix@...>
Date: 2004-03-21

Heh, one of my coworkers sent me this URL a few weeks ago. Seems to me
the musicality of the piece has little to do with the hamsters, which
serve primarily as random function generators. No doubt the hamsters
could be replaced with six sample & holds with slewing circuits, and,
coupled to the same music generating algorithms, produce equivalent
music. It might still make a good engineering project, but not nearly
as interesting a web page.

-Richard Brewster

Paul Schreiber wrote:

>(long URL)
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>http://instruct1.cit.cornell.edu//courses/eceprojectsland/STUDENTPROJ/2002to2003/lil2/index.html
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>I guess what depresses me is that one can get a MSEE from Cornell hooking
>off-the shelf sensors to input ports of a uP and write some C code. ARGHHH!!!!!
>FWIW, Bernie Hutchins (Electronotes) is from/still teaches at Cornell. Bob Moogs
>PhD is from Cornell. ARRGGGGHHHH!!!
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>The WAV file is cute, as are the hamsters.
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>Paul S.
>grump old fart, can still use slide rule
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>"Both C and UNIX started as a prank/inside joke and it sorta got out of hand." -
>Dennis Richey
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