Favorite Topics of Late

Chatting on the phone with friends sometimes results in many diverse links.

These are some of my favorites lately that we've shown each other while on the phone:

• Pix of my experiment rapid prototyping synthesizer knobs array

• Disputed waters near Taiwan.

• Deadly gun battle on the high seas 

• My favorite topic, the STM32F4 processor

• The Taiwan-Phillipines story in English 

• Electronic Dub Music synthesized on an Atari 2600 

• Taiwanese Tourism info prepared by the Tourism Bureau of the RoC

• Only one of these guitar pedal kits left in stock

• Smashing motorcycles with a hammer!  Taiwanese Performance Art ?

• Tornado moves through Oklahoma

I Have Been Concentrating on DIYDSP.com

The last few weeks, I have been spending a lot of time concentrating info on how to build electronic music instruments in one place: DIYDSP.com.

Since DIYDSP is becoming its own entity, it actually has its own blog where I select specific electronic items and talk about how and why they're useful when building your own electronic instruments. 

The purpose of spending all of this energy is to get more musicians building electronic instruments.  I would like to, in my lifetime, hear music played on electronic instruments which people have really designed to reflect their musical vision.  This may involve several more generations of instrument self-selection. 

To catalyze the whole operation, I'm teaching people how to build their own instruments through links to tutorials, my own material, and through an online store which makes it easy to find the most valuable electronic parts to electronic music instrument builders.

Shopping Via Bike

I pulled my bicycle out of the basement.  The tires were a bit low, but full enough to reach a nearby gas station.  So I did.  There, I paid 75 cents and filled the two tires to 60 psi, the low extent of the recommendation, b/c I wanted the ride to be a little bit softer than it used to be.

Surprisingly, the air pressure had dwindled to 26 psi over the winter!

Once they were full, I high-tailed it about 2.5 miles to Stop and Shop.  I bought a smaller load of groceries than I usually do, since I only had the space in my backpack for transportation.  I'm proud of myself for transporting six eggs.  I think I'll go see if they're unharmed during the trip.