audio gadgetware
In a previous post we pointed to a design project report for a USB FM tuner . Here is another tuner project, a reference design by a semiconductor company wishing to promote its FM tuner ICs. The application note includes software, firmware, board layout, and parts list. The reference design kit is available for purchase … Read more
A previous post surveyed wind chime patents, and we have also presented the original theremin patent. Here we look at other theremin-related patents, filtering out inventions dealing with proximity detector (such as a paper towel dispenser) or electronic oscillator not related to music. METHOD OF AND APPARATUS FOR THE GENERATION OF SOUNDS, 1925. Here is … Read more
We happened upon this web site, dedicated to fighting a particular font. “Comic sans”, hmmmmm, where have I heard that term before? Oh yeah, when designing our own web site style sheet: H1,H2,H3,H4,H5,H6{font-family: “Comic Sans MS”…} Now, we understand graphic designers have strong opinions about fonts (and web page layout, user interface design, etc, etc, … Read more
Contemplate this record-breaking chime: (Next week we will go in the opposite direction. Stay “tuned”.)
5/30/07 The Black Swan Nassim Nicholas Taleb Humans have difficulty thinking accurately and rationally about highly improbable events that have large impact. The “Black Swan” paradox refers to the paradox of probability induction, where observing each new white swans increases the probability of the statement “All swans are white” being true, until one travels to … Read more
We will be updating software for this blogsite in the next couple of days, to fix a compatibility problem with Internet Explorer. (Always check other browsers– but Firefox is so foxy we sometimes forget.) If we do something wrong and you cannot access the site, or articles fail to appear, this is why. We’ll get … Read more
People Clara Rockmore Samuel Hoffman Lydia Kavina Leon Theremin Robert Moog Peter Pringle Cinema Connections Jerry Lewis Howard Shore Day the Earth Stood Still Trailer Lessons Lev Grillo One, Two, Three
Professor Eric Faden, Bucknell University, explains copyright brilliantly in “A Fair(y) Use Tale“:[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJn_jC4FNDo] (hat tip BoingBoing)
With over a month of blog posting and 35 entries, what have we been discussing so far?able add affect agree already application april archive archives articles attorney audio background bad beginning beta blog border building bytes called card cards case categories category cd change changes check checkbox chime chimes click coder com comments compression computer … Read more
We tend to avoid real-time phone tech support in favor of e-mail and forums, but sometimes a user tracks us down. It usually goes something like this: (kudos Cosmic Variance)