nibot ([personal profile] nibot) wrote2006-03-27 06:22 pm
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x0xb0x number 263

[x0xb0x 263 upon arrival]
Faceplate, x0xb0x number 263. Rochester, NY. March 27, 2006.

I know absolutely nothing about music, electronic or otherwise, but a chance meeting with one of these things at MIT in November convinced me that I had to build one. It is a clone of the Roland TB-303 sequencer/synthesizer.
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[identity profile] fg.livejournal.com 2006-03-27 11:56 pm (UTC)(link)
ooh, very neat.

[identity profile] shephi.livejournal.com 2006-03-28 05:36 am (UTC)(link)
hizzah!

[identity profile] nanomonkey.livejournal.com 2006-03-29 03:53 am (UTC)(link)
Three-0-threes are relatively easy to operate and get something pleasant...err, if you like acid trax...repeating what you did five minutes ago takes some practice. I don't remember ever being able to connect to a computer in the original though, unlike the x0xb0x which I believe has usb capabilities. That should make it easier to repeat.

Needless to say, congrats...I've been looking over Lady Ada's work for quite some time...she's got some impressive projects.

something unrelated i just remembered:

[identity profile] squarkz.livejournal.com 2006-03-30 07:09 am (UTC)(link)
by the way, i noticed your continuum mechanics book sitting out while you were here, and it threw me for a second, because i didn't remember bringing my continuum mechanics book home from my office. for what it's worth, i thought it was a terrible, frustrating book, and the second half of our class mostly used turcotte and schubert's geodynamics instead.

Re: something unrelated i just remembered:

[identity profile] nibot.livejournal.com 2006-03-30 04:34 pm (UTC)(link)
It's really abominable, isn't it? The odd thing is, the Schaum's outline of Continuum Mechanics, which is also a required textbook (!) for this course I'm taking, is also written by one of the Mases, yet manages to be clear, concise, coherent, etc.

I was just thinking the other day that maybe I should start reading up on / take some classes in some geophysics topics, so that when I go back (!) to my old job at scripps institute I'll have a better idea what's going on.

How's school going? You just started a new quarter, right?

[identity profile] squarkz.livejournal.com 2006-03-31 07:58 am (UTC)(link)
ooh, i laughed when we were assigned schaum's outline for — linear algebra, i think? multivariable calc? but it turned out to be a lifesaver.

if you are interested in reading some geophysics, you could do a lot worse than turcotte and schubert. i'm not even a geodynamicist anymore, and i find myself constantly taking it down off the shelf to look things up. there are valid complaints about the way in which they derive some things — for instance, they rely on a lot of "tricks" that are useful to readers who know the material already, but don't really provide the mathematical foundation we might aspire to — but i can't think of a book that presents as much material in as accessible a manner.

yes, the spring quarter started on monday, and i promptly got a viral respiratory infection of some kind and stayed in bed for three days. i have high hopes for getting some research done before leaving in june, but i already feel like the dark forces are conspiring against me.
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