Comments on: blinkenlights and tofurkey day http://pebkac.homelinux.net/2007/11/21/blinkenlights-and-tofurkey-day/ ID=10T ERROR (tagline not found) Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:13:46 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9-beta-1 hourly 1 By: Tanner Lovelace http://pebkac.homelinux.net/2007/11/21/blinkenlights-and-tofurkey-day/comment-page-1/#comment-578 Tanner Lovelace Thu, 29 Nov 2007 05:27:55 +0000 http://pebkac.homelinux.net/2007/11/21/blinkenlights-and-tofurkey-day/#comment-578 It doesn't run anything. It's completely solid state. The input can be anything that generates sine waves. They use a "zero detector" that converts when a wave transitions from positive to negative and use that to generate a pulse of light that is sent through fiber optics to the coil and used to turn the coil on and off. It's an INCREDIBLY COOL hack because it can reproduce any kind of sound just by turning the coil on and off at that frequency. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOkTrqTd0hw" rel="nofollow">This video</a> shows them using both a keyboard and an electric bass as input to an earlier version of the coil. I REALLY want to build one of these now! :-) It doesn’t run anything. It’s completely solid state. The input can be anything that generates sine waves. They use a “zero detector” that converts when a wave transitions from positive to negative and use that to generate a pulse of light that is sent through fiber optics to the coil and used to turn the coil on and off. It’s an INCREDIBLY COOL hack because it can reproduce any kind of sound just by turning the coil on and off at that frequency. This video shows them using both a keyboard and an electric bass as input to an earlier version of the coil.

I REALLY want to build one of these now! :-)

]]> By: tarheelcoxn http://pebkac.homelinux.net/2007/11/21/blinkenlights-and-tofurkey-day/comment-page-1/#comment-573 tarheelcoxn Wed, 28 Nov 2007 05:04:18 +0000 http://pebkac.homelinux.net/2007/11/21/blinkenlights-and-tofurkey-day/#comment-573 @Tanner OMG that's awesome. :D ...but... does it run Linux? @Tanner

OMG that’s awesome. :D …but… does it run Linux?

]]> By: Tanner Lovelace http://pebkac.homelinux.net/2007/11/21/blinkenlights-and-tofurkey-day/comment-page-1/#comment-572 Tanner Lovelace Tue, 27 Nov 2007 14:52:50 +0000 http://pebkac.homelinux.net/2007/11/21/blinkenlights-and-tofurkey-day/#comment-572 Very cool! But, how about back at you with something where <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1O2jcfOylU" rel="nofollow">the blinkenlights ARE the noisemakers</a>. :-) Very cool!

But, how about back at you with something where the blinkenlights ARE the noisemakers. :-)

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