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I'd be willing to do this tho I am in the UK (i.e. not the EU)
I think shipping would be about €12 or so, depends on size & weight ofc.

@MLE_online what is that sort of "Y" shapes structure?

@m0xki

Ok lads I won't be posting for a while as I'm just going out to move my New Car, because my New Car needs moving. Back later after I've moved the New Car ok?

Oh shit I left my New Car parked somewhere temporarily so now I have to move my New Car damn, did I mention I have a New Car?

At some point this afternoon I sampled half a bar or so of piano off radio 3 into clouds and played around with it for a couple of hours, made some lovely noises, and then shut down so sample is gone but I just checked this afternoon's playlists and I don't know whether it was Liszt or Ravel or Britten 😭

@MLE_online
C'est parfait or maybe I should say es perfecto

@bytex64 @MLE_online
Ah but I'm singularly uninterested in the colours, because I am planning on doing Weird Shit lol

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hehehe now heading to ebay

I'm tiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiired

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Hey, for your blinky bike lamp, did you literally just alternate blinking & ordinary LEDs and power them up, or was there something more involved, er, involved?

vroom
Vrooom
VROOOM

Everything just needs ro

@inpc
it dark

What fucking time is this to be up. jfc.

If everything could just stop costing so much fucking money for a minute, that would be fine.

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To demonstrate:

This is a module called Stochaos designed by Andrew Fitch (nonlinearcircuits.com), based on a 1980 US Patent.

Here it's driving two envelope generators, which are controlling two voltage controlled amplifiers, each being fed different kinds of noise.

(yes I can see all the dust. yes there's a bit of tape covering the LEDs, its because I didn't select the right value of resistors and they're too bright. Yes one of the LEDs is duff)

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So ... in synths, a gate is a voltage pulse of (mostly) 5-10V, with a duration of a few ms.
They're used to initiate other events (percussion or envelopes for instance)
Chaos circuits usually generate variations that are not random, but not entirely predictable. Their limits of activity are known but within those limits can't completely be predicted.
A device that generates gate sequences based on a chaos circuit can produce patterns that sound rhythmic but with continual variation

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Oh boy I bet with an LDR per LED you could create a sort of chaotic gate generator. In fact think I think nonlinearcuits has done something similar with a few of their designs. Mmm I wish I knew anything about electronics.

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The whole idea that the river is a normally reliable place to get bicycle parts is sending me slightly.