I have just purshased arduinos and sensors... I am presently working on a project. I would like to come but I dont know if I am going to make it any way.<br><br>
<div class="gmail_quote">2010/6/2 Tom Burns <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tom.i.burns@gmail.com">tom.i.burns@gmail.com</a>></span><br>
<blockquote style="BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; PADDING-LEFT: 1ex" class="gmail_quote">Thanks Jonathan!<br><br>I won't be able to make it tonight but plan on making it for the 16th. I'm very interested in seeing what other people are working on.<br>
<br>Simone, Alex:<br>Starting seems to first involve some degree of planning: how big of a synth would you want to build. That dictates how big of a case and power supply you need to either build or purchase.<br><br>Then for each step after that you have the option to build it (with plans for free and/or PCBs available for purchase from a lot of places online) or buy it (the closest place I know of to Ottawa that sells modules or related stuff is moog audio in either Montreal or Toronto). It caters nicely to people with a wide range of skill as for each part you can either buy it off the shelf, buy it in kit form with all the components and PCB printed&drilled, or go fully DIY and plate/drill your own PCB. I think some people on this list were talking about making their own PCBs before? That's definitely a skill I want to learn. The freedom from hand-wiring circuits is very exciting.<br>
<br>I should mention that building a modular synth (or most any DIY synth) is not cheap, especially to start. Even with cutting and gluing your own case out of wood, you're probably looking at $200 before you are ready to put a module in it, and probably another $500 to get a decent synthesizer going? People who want to invest less in a synth project should check out the <a href="http://musicfromouterspace.com/" target="_blank">musicfromouterspace.com</a> weird sound generator, or the <a href="http://musicfromouterspace.com/" target="_blank">musicfromouterspace.com</a> soundlab mini-synth.<br>
<br>Cheers,<br><font color="#888888">Tom</font>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 3:20 PM, Jonathan Rudenberg <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jonathan@titanous.com" target="_blank">jonathan@titanous.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote style="BORDER-LEFT: rgb(204,204,204) 1px solid; MARGIN: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; PADDING-LEFT: 1ex" class="gmail_quote">We're having a meeting tonight at 7PM at ArtEngine, so feel free come.<br>It's not about synths specifically, but we talk about and work on all<br>
types of hardware and software hacking projects.<br><font color="#888888"><br>Jonathan<br></font>
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<div><br>On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 15:11, Simone Pfeiffer <<a href="mailto:pfeiffe.s@gmail.com" target="_blank">pfeiffe.s@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> Hello,<br>><br>> I have no idea how i got on this list or really have any idea what y'all are<br>
> talking about at all... but now I am curious!<br>><br>> So, how does one get started?<br>><br>> Cheers,<br>> Simone<br></div></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>
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