Home |
Search |
Today's Posts |
|
UK diy (uk.d-i-y) For the discussion of all topics related to diy (do-it-yourself) in the UK. All levels of experience and proficency are welcome to join in to ask questions or offer solutions. |
Reply |
|
|
LinkBack | Thread Tools | Display Modes |
#1
Posted to uk.d-i-y
|
|||
|
|||
Everyday Electronics electric guitar
Did anyone here ever make one of these, or know someone who did? Does
anyone else even remember it? Just curious. |
#2
Posted to uk.d-i-y
|
|||
|
|||
Everyday Electronics electric guitar
"Etaoin Shrdlu" wrote in message
. uk... Did anyone here ever make one of these, or know someone who did? Does anyone else even remember it? Just curious. Do you mean the electric guitar in Practical Electronics (merged into Everyday Electronics) published in the late 1960s? |
#3
Posted to uk.d-i-y
|
|||
|
|||
Everyday Electronics electric guitar
gareth wrote:
"Etaoin Shrdlu" wrote in message . uk... Did anyone here ever make one of these, or know someone who did? Does anyone else even remember it? Just curious. Do you mean the electric guitar in Practical Electronics (merged into Everyday Electronics) published in the late 1960s? I'd have thought it was early 70's, but maybe it's the same thing. Weird how you'd actually consider building your own guitar in those days. Nowadays, you'd just buy one. |
#4
Posted to uk.d-i-y
|
|||
|
|||
Everyday Electronics electric guitar
On Wed, 24 Jun 2015 21:08:57 +0100, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote:
Did anyone here ever make one of these, or know someone who did? Does anyone else even remember it? Just curious. Does anyone remember the Glissandovibe, I think it was a bit like a Theromin but more tangable IYSWIM. Just a name that stuck in my memory. Someone remembers it, http://www.chatzones.co.uk/discus/me...tml?1275246978 Talk about thread drift though! -- Graham. %Profound_observation% |
#5
Posted to uk.d-i-y
|
|||
|
|||
Everyday Electronics electric guitar
On 24/06/2015 21:08, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote:
Did anyone here ever make one of these, or know someone who did? Does anyone else even remember it? Just curious. I made an electric guitar back then, but I can't remember which magazine I copied it from. I made mine in a Flying V shape. If I remember correctly they gave you the configuration for the fretboard and you made your own shape. It actually played in tune :-) When we moved I left it in the the loft where we moved from. It was interesting to make. |
#6
Posted to uk.d-i-y
|
|||
|
|||
Everyday Electronics electric guitar
On 24/06/2015 22:41, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote:
gareth wrote: "Etaoin Shrdlu" wrote in message . uk... Did anyone here ever make one of these, or know someone who did? Does anyone else even remember it? Just curious. Do you mean the electric guitar in Practical Electronics (merged into Everyday Electronics) published in the late 1960s? I'd have thought it was early 70's, but maybe it's the same thing. Weird how you'd actually consider building your own guitar in those days. Nowadays, you'd just buy one. I already had guitars, it was just interesting to actually make one. |
#7
Posted to uk.d-i-y
|
|||
|
|||
Everyday Electronics electric guitar
Vague recollection about such a beast, was it in the 70s?
Brian -- From the Sofa of Brian Gaff Reply address is active "Etaoin Shrdlu" wrote in message . uk... Did anyone here ever make one of these, or know someone who did? Does anyone else even remember it? Just curious. |
#8
Posted to uk.d-i-y
|
|||
|
|||
Everyday Electronics electric guitar
Back in the 60s Wireless World had an organ as I recall, all valves.
I also recall Bryan Cox talking about a project he built for a synthesiser when they first became popular, for his band, so musical instruments were most certainly made back in those days. Diy Violin anyone :- Brian) -- From the Sofa of Brian Gaff Reply address is active "Etaoin Shrdlu" wrote in message . uk... gareth wrote: "Etaoin Shrdlu" wrote in message . uk... Did anyone here ever make one of these, or know someone who did? Does anyone else even remember it? Just curious. Do you mean the electric guitar in Practical Electronics (merged into Everyday Electronics) published in the late 1960s? I'd have thought it was early 70's, but maybe it's the same thing. Weird how you'd actually consider building your own guitar in those days. Nowadays, you'd just buy one. |
#9
Posted to uk.d-i-y
|
|||
|
|||
Everyday Electronics electric guitar
On 25/06/2015 07:47, Brian-Gaff wrote:
Vague recollection about such a beast, was it in the 70s? Brian Yes, it was in the 70s. |
#10
Posted to uk.d-i-y
|
|||
|
|||
Everyday Electronics electric guitar
"Brian-Gaff" wrote in message
... Back in the 60s Wireless World had an organ as I recall, all valves. Was that the one that had the key contacts as bits of wire dipping into thimbles of anti-freeze such that the slow electrolytic build up of keying current circumvented any key clicks? |
#11
Posted to uk.d-i-y
|
|||
|
|||
Everyday Electronics electric guitar
On 25/06/2015 08:10, gareth wrote:
"Brian-Gaff" wrote in message ... Back in the 60s Wireless World had an organ as I recall, all valves. Was that the one that had the key contacts as bits of wire dipping into thimbles of anti-freeze such that the slow electrolytic build up of keying current circumvented any key clicks? My father in law built an organ from one of those mags back in the early 70s(I think), it played and sounded surprisingly well. |
#12
Posted to uk.d-i-y
|
|||
|
|||
Everyday Electronics electric guitar
On Wednesday, 24 June 2015 22:41:26 UTC+1, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote:
gareth wrote: "Etaoin Shrdlu" wrote in message . uk... Did anyone here ever make one of these, or know someone who did? Does anyone else even remember it? Just curious. .... Weird how you'd actually consider building your own guitar in those days. Nowadays, you'd just buy one. People still do, though mostly I suspect it's an assembly job - the Fender "something"-casters with bolt-on necks opened the door for easy assembly of "bitsacaster" guitars. |
#13
Posted to uk.d-i-y
|
|||
|
|||
Everyday Electronics electric guitar
On Thu, 25 Jun 2015 07:57:58 +0100, Bod wrote:
On 25/06/2015 07:47, Brian-Gaff wrote: Vague recollection about such a beast, was it in the 70s? Brian Yes, it was in the 70s. Practical Electronics January 1965, used Eclipse button magnets with coils wound on them as the pickups. https://ia700809.us.archive.org/20/i...ics1965Jan.pdf http://www.eclipsemagnetics.com/row/product-range/magnetic-tools-standard-magnets/e821-alnico-button-magnets.html There was a later one in the mid 70's, that can be found at http://www.vintage-radio.net/forum/a...4&d=1330286995 http://www.vintage-radio.net/forum/a...5&d=1330286995 http://www.vintage-radio.net/forum/a...6&d=1330287221 http://www.vintage-radio.net/forum/a...7&d=1330287221 |
#14
Posted to uk.d-i-y
|
|||
|
|||
Everyday Electronics electric guitar
On 25/06/2015 07:29, Bod wrote:
On 24/06/2015 21:08, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: Did anyone here ever make one of these, or know someone who did? Does anyone else even remember it? Just curious. I made an electric guitar back then, but I can't remember which magazine I copied it from. I made mine in a Flying V shape. If I remember correctly they gave you the configuration for the fretboard and you made your own shape. It actually played in tune :-) When we moved I left it in the the loft where we moved from. It was interesting to make. To add to that; I was very surprised that the intonation was correct because I made lots of their projects and there was nearly always some sort mistake that made you have to buy the next month's edition to find out the corrections. A clever ploy to encourage you to buy the next months edition whether you intended to or not. :-) |
#15
Posted to uk.d-i-y
|
|||
|
|||
Everyday Electronics electric guitar
On Thu, 25 Jun 2015 08:35:00 +0100, Bod wrote:
My father in law built an organ from one of those mags back in the early 70s(I think), it played and sounded surprisingly well. I built one about '75 '76, possibly from Everyday Electronics but more likely Practical Wireless. Proper keyboard and gold wire based keyboard switches. Trouble is it used MOS divider chips which didn't have static protection and generating all notes mathematically isn't musically correct, So even though it worked quite it wasn't very musical. -- Cheers Dave. |
#16
Posted to uk.d-i-y
|
|||
|
|||
Everyday Electronics electric guitar
Dave Liquorice wrote:
On Thu, 25 Jun 2015 08:35:00 +0100, Bod wrote: My father in law built an organ from one of those mags back in the early 70s(I think), it played and sounded surprisingly well. I built one about '75 '76, possibly from Everyday Electronics but more likely Practical Wireless. Proper keyboard and gold wire based keyboard switches. Trouble is it used MOS divider chips which didn't have static protection and generating all notes mathematically isn't musically correct, So even though it worked quite it wasn't very musical. I remember one of the mags did a sort of stylophone thing where the keypad was etched into copper clad board, with the help of those etch-resist pens. Quite clever, I thought. |
#17
Posted to uk.d-i-y
|
|||
|
|||
Everyday Electronics electric guitar
Wow what a link that was.
Are these pdfs just pictures of the pages? If so I won't b bother looking. Brian -- From the Sofa of Brian Gaff Reply address is active "Peter Parry" wrote in message ... On Thu, 25 Jun 2015 07:57:58 +0100, Bod wrote: On 25/06/2015 07:47, Brian-Gaff wrote: Vague recollection about such a beast, was it in the 70s? Brian Yes, it was in the 70s. Practical Electronics January 1965, used Eclipse button magnets with coils wound on them as the pickups. https://ia700809.us.archive.org/20/i...ics1965Jan.pdf http://www.eclipsemagnetics.com/row/product-range/magnetic-tools-standard-magnets/e821-alnico-button-magnets.html There was a later one in the mid 70's, that can be found at http://www.vintage-radio.net/forum/a...4&d=1330286995 http://www.vintage-radio.net/forum/a...5&d=1330286995 http://www.vintage-radio.net/forum/a...6&d=1330287221 http://www.vintage-radio.net/forum/a...7&d=1330287221 |
#18
Posted to uk.d-i-y
|
|||
|
|||
Everyday Electronics electric guitar
"Bod" wrote in message ... On 24/06/2015 21:08, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: Did anyone here ever make one of these, or know someone who did? Does anyone else even remember it? Just curious. I made an electric guitar back then, but I can't remember which magazine I copied it from. I made mine in a Flying V shape. If I remember correctly they gave you the configuration for the fretboard and you made your own shape. It actually played in tune :-) When we moved I left it in the the loft where we moved from. It was interesting to make. Yea, you measure the length of the string between bridge and nut, halve it, then the gap between frets gets progressively larger towards the nut by the twelfth root of 2. So you cheat and use a CNC miller |
#19
Posted to uk.d-i-y
|
|||
|
|||
Everyday Electronics electric guitar
On 25/06/2015 19:23, bm wrote:
"Bod" wrote in message ... On 24/06/2015 21:08, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: Did anyone here ever make one of these, or know someone who did? Does anyone else even remember it? Just curious. I made an electric guitar back then, but I can't remember which magazine I copied it from. I made mine in a Flying V shape. If I remember correctly they gave you the configuration for the fretboard and you made your own shape. It actually played in tune :-) When we moved I left it in the the loft where we moved from. It was interesting to make. Yea, you measure the length of the string between bridge and nut, halve it, then the gap between frets gets progressively larger towards the nut by the twelfth root of 2. So you cheat and use a CNC miller Aye. |
#20
Posted to uk.d-i-y
|
|||
|
|||
Everyday Electronics electric guitar
In article , Graham.
scribeth thus On Wed, 24 Jun 2015 21:08:57 +0100, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: Did anyone here ever make one of these, or know someone who did? Does anyone else even remember it? Just curious. Does anyone remember the Glissandovibe, I think it was a bit like a Theromin but more tangable IYSWIM. Just a name that stuck in my memory. Someone remembers it, http://www.chatzones.co.uk/discus/me...tml?1275246978 Talk about thread drift though! Drift further!... Anyone heard of the Ondes Martenot?, devised in 1928 and influenced by the theremin a short demo here, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0aflcF0-ys and it makes an appearance in Olivier Messiaen's Mighty Turangalîla- Symphonie which is being performed at the Proms this year and is now sold out. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PjyCpRKDrk Enjoy... -- Tony Sayer |
#21
Posted to uk.d-i-y
|
|||
|
|||
Everyday Electronics electric guitar
On Thu, 25 Jun 2015 17:32:53 +0100, "Brian-Gaff"
wrote: Are these pdfs just pictures of the pages? If so I won't bother looking. They look as if they are pictorial images of the original pages in pdf format. |
#22
Posted to uk.d-i-y
|
|||
|
|||
Everyday Electronics electric guitar
On Thursday, 25 June 2015 17:32:53 UTC+1, Brian-Gaff wrote:
Wow what a link that was. Are these pdfs just pictures of the pages? If so I won't b bother looking. Brian -- From the Sofa of Brian Gaff Reply address is active "Peter Parry" wrote in message ... On Thu, 25 Jun 2015 07:57:58 +0100, Bod wrote: On 25/06/2015 07:47, Brian-Gaff wrote: Vague recollection about such a beast, was it in the 70s? Brian Yes, it was in the 70s. Practical Electronics January 1965, used Eclipse button magnets with coils wound on them as the pickups. https://ia700809.us.archive.org/20/i...ics1965Jan.pdf http://www.eclipsemagnetics.com/row/product-range/magnetic-tools-standard-magnets/e821-alnico-button-magnets.html There was a later one in the mid 70's, that can be found at http://www.vintage-radio.net/forum/a...4&d=1330286995 http://www.vintage-radio.net/forum/a...5&d=1330286995 http://www.vintage-radio.net/forum/a...6&d=1330287221 http://www.vintage-radio.net/forum/a...7&d=1330287221 What were you expecting an interactive guide with 3D / HD multi-media files ? |
#23
Posted to uk.d-i-y
|
|||
|
|||
Everyday Electronics electric guitar
On Fri, 26 Jun 2015 03:03:40 -0700 (PDT), whisky-dave
wrote: What were you expecting an interactive guide with 3D / HD multi-media files ? More probably something which will work with a text to speech program. text based PDF's will, ones where the pdf is just a photograph or scanned image of a page turned into a pdf document won't. 3D and multi media are not a lot of use to people with no sight. |
#24
Posted to uk.d-i-y
|
|||
|
|||
Everyday Electronics electric guitar
On Friday, 26 June 2015 14:27:54 UTC+1, Peter Parry wrote:
On Fri, 26 Jun 2015 03:03:40 -0700 (PDT), whisky-dave wrote: What were you expecting an interactive guide with 3D / HD multi-media files ? More probably something which will work with a text to speech program. text based PDF's will, ones where the pdf is just a photograph or scanned image of a page turned into a pdf document won't. 3D and multi media are not a lot of use to people with no sight. Sorry but I didn't know that was the case. I'm not sure that the original EE or PE mags would have been much use either would they ?. I did look through some copies or such mags I have here mostly from the 80s & 90s. Years ago one of my students was working on a braille computer 'display' nothoing came of it. I guess text to speech was more useful. |
#25
Posted to uk.d-i-y
|
|||
|
|||
Everyday Electronics electric guitar
On Fri, 26 Jun 2015 07:00:50 -0700 (PDT), whisky-dave
wrote: I'm not sure that the original EE or PE mags would have been much use either would they ?. I did look through some copies or such mags I have here mostly from the 80s & 90s. Years ago one of my students was working on a braille computer 'display' nothoing came of it. I guess text to speech was more useful. Braille has been in decline for some time. Using it is a skill which takes constant practice and with the decline of specialist schools for blind students most blind children are either not being taught Braille or don't regularly use it. Few people who lose their sight as adults ever did learn Braille. Text to speech has certainly had a large part to play in this decline - but if it was all that was needed why teach anyone to write? Many believe Braille is analogous to reading and writing and necessary for literacy. Amongst blind people within the UK Braille is used by about 1%. As a medium for reading novels it is hard work, a paperback novel in Braille would be the size of half a dozen large heavy encyclopedias. For labeling things it is far more useful. Having custard on your beans because someone moved tins around on a shelf ceases to be amusing quite quickly. I'm currently using a 3D printer to make re useable magnetic tin markers to help label tins by contents. The 3D printer is particularly useful as it is easy to make bespoke labels to suit anyone's needs. -- Peter Parry www.remap.org.uk |
#26
Posted to uk.d-i-y
|
|||
|
|||
Everyday Electronics electric guitar
Amongst blind people within the UK Braille is used by about 1%. As a medium for reading novels it is hard work, a paperback novel in Braille would be the size of half a dozen large heavy encyclopedias. ;!.. Suppose a kindle reader does text to speech?.. For labeling things it is far more useful. Having custard on your beans because someone moved tins around on a shelf ceases to be amusing quite quickly. Do you know it was only a week ago that I noticed that medicine packets had Braille on them!... I'm currently using a 3D printer to make re useable magnetic tin markers to help label tins by contents. The 3D printer is particularly useful as it is easy to make bespoke labels to suit anyone's needs. -- Tony Sayer |
#27
Posted to uk.d-i-y
|
|||
|
|||
Everyday Electronics electric guitar
On Fri, 26 Jun 2015 07:00:50 -0700, whisky-dave wrote:
On Friday, 26 June 2015 14:27:54 UTC+1, Peter Parry wrote: On Fri, 26 Jun 2015 03:03:40 -0700 (PDT), whisky-dave wrote: What were you expecting an interactive guide with 3D / HD multi-media files ? More probably something which will work with a text to speech program. text based PDF's will, ones where the pdf is just a photograph or scanned image of a page turned into a pdf document won't. 3D and multi media are not a lot of use to people with no sight. Sorry but I didn't know that was the case. I'm not sure that the original EE or PE mags would have been much use either would they ?. I did look through some copies or such mags I have here mostly from the 80s & 90s. Years ago one of my students was working on a braille computer 'display' nothoing came of it. I guess text to speech was more useful. In the 80s we did have a student USING a one line Braille display. A couple of years ago we had a student using Windows, via NVDA (which is quite good, and free). |
#28
Posted to uk.d-i-y
|
|||
|
|||
Everyday Electronics electric guitar
In article ,
Etaoin Shrdlu writes: Did anyone here ever make one of these, or know someone who did? Does anyone else even remember it? Just curious. I remember it. I ran for ages in the 1970's Everyday Electonics. I remember it because it was the one bit of the magazine I wasn't interested in, and it never seemed to stop! I probably still have them - I haven't ever thrown any of those magazines away, although some have probably got lost or fallen to bits over the decades. I recall someone making one in the woodwork shop at school over quite a long period of time, but I don't recall if I ever saw it finished. -- Andrew Gabriel [email address is not usable -- followup in the newsgroup] |
#29
Posted to uk.d-i-y
|
|||
|
|||
Everyday Electronics electric guitar
On 24/06/15 22:41, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote:
gareth wrote: "Etaoin Shrdlu" wrote in message . uk... Did anyone here ever make one of these, or know someone who did? Does anyone else even remember it? Just curious. Do you mean the electric guitar in Practical Electronics (merged into Everyday Electronics) published in the late 1960s? I'd have thought it was early 70's, but maybe it's the same thing. Weird how you'd actually consider building your own guitar in those days. Nowadays, you'd just buy one. I built mine last year. OK I didn't build it totally from scratch but I got a beautiful £800 strat (copy) for £300.. -- New Socialism consists essentially in being seen to have your heart in the right place whilst your head is in the clouds and your hand is in someone else's pocket. |
#30
Posted to uk.d-i-y
|
|||
|
|||
Everyday Electronics electric guitar
Yes, I made it, still got it... The magazine and the guitar. 1972 it is. I would need to look in the loft, to get the month
|
#31
Posted to uk.d-i-y
|
|||
|
|||
Everyday Electronics electric guitar
1972... It came out
|
#32
Posted to uk.d-i-y
|
|||
|
|||
Everyday Electronics electric guitar
On Wednesday, 24 June 2015 22:41:26 UTC+1, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote:
gareth wrote: "Etaoin Shrdlu" wrote in message . uk... Did anyone here ever make one of these, or know someone who did? Does anyone else even remember it? Just curious. Do you mean the electric guitar in Practical Electronics (merged into Everyday Electronics) published in the late 1960s? I'd have thought it was early 70's, but maybe it's the same thing. Weird how you'd actually consider building your own guitar in those days. Nowadays, you'd just buy one. Nobody have any money. It was pre-globalisation, we didn't have third world child slaves working for us. |
#33
Posted to uk.d-i-y
|
|||
|
|||
Everyday Electronics electric guitar
On 19/12/16 11:21, wrote:
1972... It came out The "Delta" November, December 72 to January 73 http://www.chatzones.co.uk/discus/me...tml?1341000689 -- Adrian C |
#34
Posted to uk.d-i-y
|
|||
|
|||
Everyday Electronics electric guitar
"harry" wrote in message ... On Wednesday, 24 June 2015 22:41:26 UTC+1, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: gareth wrote: "Etaoin Shrdlu" wrote in message . uk... Did anyone here ever make one of these, or know someone who did? Does anyone else even remember it? Just curious. Do you mean the electric guitar in Practical Electronics (merged into Everyday Electronics) published in the late 1960s? I'd have thought it was early 70's, but maybe it's the same thing. Weird how you'd actually consider building your own guitar in those days. Nowadays, you'd just buy one. Nobody have any money. Liz had plenty. So did quite a few others as well. It was pre-globalisation, we didn't have third world child slaves working for us. Even sillier than you usually manage. You poms had that for centurys, you pig ignorant clown. |
#36
Posted to uk.d-i-y
|
|||
|
|||
Everyday Electronics electric guitar
On 21/12/16 16:12, rick wrote:
On 19/12/2016 11:19, wrote: Yes, I made it, still got it... The magazine and the guitar. 1972 it is. I would need to look in the loft, to get the month I used to get (EE from isuue No. 1) and also Practical Electronics ... up until early 80's at that time they then swung to every project having an eprom Got a bit ridiculous. My John Linley Hood tuner still going well. Used to be buying mail order components from Maplin or Watford Electronics. That seems to be a lot of stuff in Elektor now. I built (of my own design at ages 12-14) a kitchen timer, caravan water level meter, tacho for our car (hardest bit was isolation of spikes from contact breaker, and debouncing) and numerous magazine and Heathkit projects. All of the things I built could be done with one AVR (or PIC if you prefer). Rather than the 2-14 CMOS logic chips I used. However, I think mine were probably more interesting and educational in one sense rather than turning everything into a programming problem. |
#37
Posted to uk.d-i-y
|
|||
|
|||
Everyday Electronics electric guitar
On 21/12/2016 19:33, Tim Watts wrote:
On 21/12/16 16:12, rick wrote: On 19/12/2016 11:19, wrote: Yes, I made it, still got it... The magazine and the guitar. 1972 it is. I would need to look in the loft, to get the month I used to get (EE from isuue No. 1) and also Practical Electronics ... up until early 80's at that time they then swung to every project having an eprom Got a bit ridiculous. My John Linley Hood tuner still going well. Used to be buying mail order components from Maplin or Watford Electronics. That seems to be a lot of stuff in Elektor now. I built (of my own design at ages 12-14) a kitchen timer, caravan water level meter, tacho for our car (hardest bit was isolation of spikes from contact breaker, and debouncing) and numerous magazine and Heathkit projects. All of the things I built could be done with one AVR (or PIC if you prefer). Rather than the 2-14 CMOS logic chips I used. However, I think mine were probably more interesting and educational in one sense rather than turning everything into a programming problem. I built an electric guitar to my own design way back in the 70s. Great fun. |
#38
Posted to uk.d-i-y
|
|||
|
|||
Everyday Electronics electric guitar
"Tim Watts" wrote in message ... On 21/12/16 16:12, rick wrote: On 19/12/2016 11:19, wrote: Yes, I made it, still got it... The magazine and the guitar. 1972 it is. I would need to look in the loft, to get the month I used to get (EE from isuue No. 1) and also Practical Electronics ... up until early 80's at that time they then swung to every project having an eprom Got a bit ridiculous. My John Linley Hood tuner still going well. Used to be buying mail order components from Maplin or Watford Electronics. That seems to be a lot of stuff in Elektor now. I built (of my own design at ages 12-14) a kitchen timer, caravan water level meter, tacho for our car (hardest bit was isolation of spikes from contact breaker, and debouncing) and numerous magazine and Heathkit projects. All of the things I built could be done with one AVR (or PIC if you prefer). Rather than the 2-14 CMOS logic chips I used. However, I think mine were probably more interesting and educational in one sense rather than turning everything into a programming problem. Programming is the best way to do stuff like that now. |
#39
Posted to uk.d-i-y
|
|||
|
|||
Everyday Electronics electric guitar
On Wed, 21 Dec 2016 19:39:29 -0000, Bod wrote:
On 21/12/2016 19:33, Tim Watts wrote: On 21/12/16 16:12, rick wrote: On 19/12/2016 11:19, wrote: Yes, I made it, still got it... The magazine and the guitar. 1972 it is. I would need to look in the loft, to get the month I used to get (EE from isuue No. 1) and also Practical Electronics ... up until early 80's at that time they then swung to every project having an eprom Got a bit ridiculous. My John Linley Hood tuner still going well. Used to be buying mail order components from Maplin or Watford Electronics. That seems to be a lot of stuff in Elektor now. I built (of my own design at ages 12-14) a kitchen timer, caravan water level meter, tacho for our car (hardest bit was isolation of spikes from contact breaker, and debouncing) and numerous magazine and Heathkit projects. All of the things I built could be done with one AVR (or PIC if you prefer). Rather than the 2-14 CMOS logic chips I used. However, I think mine were probably more interesting and educational in one sense rather than turning everything into a programming problem. I built an electric guitar to my own design way back in the 70s. Great fun. Including carving the wood? -- My wife was standing nude, looking in the bedroom mirror. She was not happy with what she saw and said to me, "I feel horrible. I look old, fat and ugly. I really need you to pay me a compliment." I replied, "Your eyesight's damn near perfect." And then the fight started....... |
#40
Posted to uk.d-i-y
|
|||
|
|||
Everyday Electronics electric guitar
"Bod" wrote in message ... On 21/12/2016 19:33, Tim Watts wrote: On 21/12/16 16:12, rick wrote: On 19/12/2016 11:19, wrote: Yes, I made it, still got it... The magazine and the guitar. 1972 it is. I would need to look in the loft, to get the month I used to get (EE from isuue No. 1) and also Practical Electronics ... up until early 80's at that time they then swung to every project having an eprom Got a bit ridiculous. My John Linley Hood tuner still going well. Used to be buying mail order components from Maplin or Watford Electronics. That seems to be a lot of stuff in Elektor now. I built (of my own design at ages 12-14) a kitchen timer, caravan water level meter, tacho for our car (hardest bit was isolation of spikes from contact breaker, and debouncing) and numerous magazine and Heathkit projects. All of the things I built could be done with one AVR (or PIC if you prefer). Rather than the 2-14 CMOS logic chips I used. However, I think mine were probably more interesting and educational in one sense rather than turning everything into a programming problem. I built an electric guitar to my own design way back in the 70s. Great fun. I made one in ~1965 using a bog seat as the body. They were pulling some houses down near us, would've been a shame to waste it. |
Reply |
|
Thread Tools | Search this Thread |
Display Modes | |
|
|
Similar Threads | ||||
Thread | Forum | |||
How to post an (electric) guitar? | UK diy | |||
How to post an (electric) guitar? | UK diy | |||
How to post an (electric) guitar? | UK diy | |||
How to post an (electric) guitar? | UK diy | |||
help needed to fix Muff Fuzz guitar effect electronics... | Electronics |