for use with MIDI to control voltage arduino code found here - Arduino MIDI2CV Good stuff, tho I’m tempted to skip the pwm and head straight for an spi dac or even rig up an r2r dac. wee shalll seee.

In an effort to get this site taken off google’s “this site may harm your computer” list, registration has been closed. Comments can now be made without registering coutesy of WP-SpamFree. Here’s hopin’ this helps!

A year ago today Boston authorities completely overreacted to a creative ad campaign promoting the Aqua Teen Hunger Force animated series. The people who made the promotional LED signs faced very serious criminal charges for a harmless decorative act. Let’s all try to make technology a little more open, friendly, and familiar to the world. We need to keep all this rampant fear in check - our rights really do depend on it.

I’ve just been appointed MAKE Flickr Pool Curator! I’m very psyched about this new role I’ll be fulfilling at makezine.com. I honestly couldn’t imagine a publication I’d want to work with more. I’ll be on the lookout for great projects in the pool and adding some hacks/how-to’s/how-not-to’s of my own as well. We’ll be upping the interactive ante with some contests and prizes for user projects. It’s a natural progression - MAKE shows people how to do cool things, people show make how to do cool things, repeat.

While looking for substitution tables I ran into this pic of the first transistor. Amazing, It could easily pass a work of art in a modern gallery. I find the zig-zagging lead particularly interesting (I’m assuming it’s the base junction). I was assumming the shapes purpose was to increase capacitance, but it turns out the odd shape acted as a spring to suspend the large plastic triangle very gently over a germanium crystal.

It consisted of a plastic triangle lightly suspended above a germanium crystal which itself was sitting on a metal plate attached to a voltage source. A strip of gold was wrapped around the point of the triangle with a tiny gap cut into the gold at the precise point it came in contact with the germanium crystal. The germanium acted as a semiconductor so that a small electric current entering on one side of the gold strip came out the other side as a proportionately amplified current.

- http://www.cedmagic.com/history/transistor-1947.html

Damn, that’s cool.

further reading:
http://www.pbs.org/transistor/science/events/pointctrans.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transistor

Looks like we made it after all.Below that scuffed aluminum dwell a veritable clown car of wire bulk. And you know what? That bulk makes some damn fine sound. Now onto the 1V/Octave keyboard controller as I wait for my temperature controlled resistors to arrive by post.

Sound Lab - Panel to Board Wiring

Originally uploaded by Collin Mel

After everything else, following the alphabetically coded board -> pcb wiring is a refreshing snap - though it may look like a crackle an a pop as well (huh?)

Cube-Tube x 2

Mo’ tubes is good tubes. I’ll post a video of it in action soon.

WSG003
Originally uploaded by Collin Mel
Yet another Weird Sound Generator.
BTW - Ray Wilson is now selling WSG component kits for your DIY Synth building convenience.