Like many many bands one of mine used to chuck in a cover of Wipeout, but I was somewhat ignorant of the surf groups that spawned music like that, like The Ventures…
First misunderstanding on my part, they weren’t from California, but Tacoma, Washington.
That was a lot of fun!
And now for something completely different…
Hahaha, classic
Matt doesn’t use VCV Rack and prefers his hardware rack, but there’s a mention of VCV Rack in this video about making art
I like it! Programming art tools and making art gets me out of my existential dread of worst case scenarios. I consider both my programming and my music creation as sculpting in very non-linear ways. It is funny that I cannot listen to music while programming. I think that is because I am engaging both hemispheres of my brain for both programming and making music. It is a very Zen-like state for me personally.
Thanks for this ray of positivity.
All about LEDs
Guys. Homemade tubes. This person is crazy, i like it!
Wow, showing my age, this takes me back to my wild scientist teen years. But, I got hung up at a lower level step of trying to make my own glass in my carbon arc furnace 
Oh! That’s cool! Making glass in theory is easy if you have a furnace or something. But I bet there are lots of difficulties along the way… Especially if you want to make it clear, probably you need a precise percentage of stuff, haha
I also built a charcoal and forced air aluminum foundry in my backyard. I learned a lot in everything I built, but most often I did not achieve my original goal. The devil is always in the details.
Over the Christmas break I was showing my 14 year old grandson my “research” notebook from when I was 14. I explained that some projects are the most fun to just design and never attempt to build, such as my 2 person submarine designed around 55 gallon steel barrels.
That’s cool; I have never seen this series.
I really like the title “I dream of Wires”. When I built my first modular synth in 1973 when I was 21, it took me a while to solder up all of the modules, but in the meantime I literally dreamed about the finished product and learned how to use it it my dreams. Modular after all is totally logical from an electronics standpoint.
I still do some pretty intense programming in my dreams, but I often get frustrated in my dream that I cannot connect to the internet and I cannot save my work well
That’s funny. I remember when I was around the same age of 21, I was forced by my university to attend some shady electronics course. So we were studying Ohm’s law and some other theory, which is cool and fine, but at the practical course we were desoldering the old soviet stuff. Like TVs and radios and whatever else. Some days there were no theory classes, so we were sitting with our soldering irons for hours. And after that I remember having the actual dreams with wires and cool soviet transistors that looked like UFOs… Wait I got to show one. They look very cool
But mostly there were wires, wires and more wires…
I’ve been a bit obsessed with modular since VCV2. Its a whole universe with its own logic,…I don’t think I will ever be bored with modular, so much to discover and I still have 2 kidneys and no second mortgage on my house.
I love the idea of making vacuum tubes from scratch. Imagine you are colonizing another planet and you need to build an industrial base from materials found on site. Or imagine a cataclysm here on Earth and we have to start over. People like this guy are who we would need: someone who can use craftsmanship and simple tools and materials to build basic electronic components, enough to bootstrap us through the radio and telegraph era again, and make our way back to transistors, integrated circuits, and computers. We would have the benefit of books that explain superheterodyne receivers, logic gates, etc., to greatly accelerate progress. But we would not be able to start by building a modern semiconductor fab. It would be a careful bootstrapping of older technologies that would lead us back there.
My favorite sci-fi novels have had elements of rebuilding technology or science from scratch. Jules Verne touched on that trope quite often.
