OT: really cool home-brew electronic project

[Tony Estep]

This is not ham-related, but it illustrates that home design and building of
incredible electronic gadgets is still  alive and well. It does feature DSP,
microcontroller programming, and audio-processing stuff that certainly can
be tied to ham interests. I believe that reflector participant Ian GM3SEK is
an audio engineer, and perhaps there are others on the list as well who are
devotees of this kind of stuff. In any event, for anybody who likes
electronics, the entertainment value of this is outstanding.

The guy who did the project is a colleague of one of my sons at Penn State,
who did this in his spare time as a contest entry.

Here is the 1.5 Minute video that demos the "active pickguard" gadget:**

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhSo-udHuqM****



It seems mildly interesting, but you don't realize what you're looking at
until you see the “deep dive”:****

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hI7nvLrYxc4****




This second video is just brilliant!


73,
Tony KT0NY

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[gm3sek]

Tony Estep wrote:
>I believe that reflector participant Ian GM3SEK is an audio engineer,

You're maybe thinking of Jim, K9YC.

(I couldn't even play an audio engineer on the radio, and most people
think that my musical instrument already makes too much noise.)


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http://www.ifwtech.co.uk/g3sek
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[MontyS]

Really nice.  As a new maker/owner of a RepRap Mendel 3D printer, and user of Alibre Design (mentioned in the video) for CAD, I can testify to the amazement one feels when achieving 3D output from your own design.  Built a model of our home in HO scale; now working on other model railroad projects.

Reprap - see www.reprap.org/wiki
Alibre Design - company website.  I have no affiliation.

Monty K2DLJ (with plenty of hobbies)

On Oct 17, 2011, at 11:22 PM, Ron D'Eau Claire wrote:

> Fan-tas-tic! Tnx Tony. It very dramatically illustrates how CAD and fab
> services have brought the ability to design and prototype new devices into
> the hands of any capable engineer.
>
> Ron AC7AC
>

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