[Imc-makerspace] Fwd: Audio/Synth Info From AMC

[Brian Duggan]

Hey All,

I went to the Allied Media Conference in Detroit this past weekend and
met folks from OmniCorpDetroit, a hackspace up there. Let me just say
that they're some cool cats we should get to know. Andrew is one of the
more experienced hackers in the group and he designed a really neat
workshop on constructing an audio synthesizer circuit from a couple
transistors, a cap, a resistor and a pencil. I'll demo it tomorrow night.

Andrew's asking below if Mu wants to go in on a more complicated PCB for
chiptuning. I already wrote back and told him I wanted one. Think about
it and let him/me know!

Brian

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: 	Audio/Synth Info From AMC
Date: 	Tue, 22 Jun 2010 17:54:01 +0000
From: 	thisandagain at gmail.com
To: 	bcdugga at gmail.com
CC: 	Jeff Sturges <jeff.sturges at gmail.com>



Hey Brian,
This is Andrew Sliwinski from OmniCorpDetroit, we met at the Allied
Media Conference. Hope you enjoyed the rest of your stay in our fair
city! I wanted to pass along some info to you about some of the topics
we talked about:

Audio & Amplifier Testing:
The guy at TangentSoft (besides being a great general maker/do-er of all
things) has some great write-ups on Headphone amplifier designs and some
good projects. This one (http://tangentsoft.net/audio/hp-dummy.html)
shows how to make a dummy load that helps with testing either through a
scope or through software.

The software I used during the class (which is an awful lot cheaper than
buying a scope!) is called SignalScope and it's made by Faber Acoustical
(http://www.faberacoustical.com/products/signalscope/)

Kits!:
The kits we used at the AMC are designed by a company called PAIA that's
been making synth kits for decades (http://www.paia.com/). They also
have lots of good little solid state amplifier (chip-amp) kits.

We spoke a little bit about the Atari Punk Console kits that we designed
for OCD's teaching purposes. We actually have a new version designed
(http://twitpic.com/1ujrq4) for our next set of teaching that we haven't
sent out yet, but if you and the folks at your space would be interested
in getting in on an order of PCBs it could make things cheaper for all
of us! *Woo!* Let me know soon if you folks are interested as we will
probably be putting in an order in the next week or so.

Misc:
It was really great to meet you and so many other folks from around the
country last weekend. If you guys over in Illinois ever have anything to
share (or have any questions for us) just let us know! Talk soon.

-Andrew

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