Was thinking of using cadium sulfide cells (light resistors) in place of radio waves on a pic. Bill ----- Original Message ----- From: "Howard Winter" To: "Microcontroller discussion list - Public." Sent: Wednesday, November 30, 2005 3:32 AM Subject: RE: [OT] Theremins > David, > > On Tue, 29 Nov 2005 07:26:13 -0500, David Van Horn wrote: > >> > -----Original Message----- >> > From: piclist-bounces@mit.edu [mailto:piclist-bounces@mit.edu] On >> > Behalf >> > Of Bill & Pookie >> >... >> > http://www.zzounds.com/item--BIGETHERWAVE >> > >> > Looks like a great PIC project, "Pic Theremins" >> > Or Pic Theremins/Proximenty Detector". >> >> If it doesn't do both pitch and volume, it's a noisemaker. >> The pitch "antenna" tuning is quite a bit more interesting than you'd >> think. > > I've always loved Theremins - but I've never managed to find one to have a > go, but I understand the Science > Museum in London has one, so I may have to go and find out! In one of the > Back to the Future films there's > one just standing there in the professor's junkroom - it's never referred > to, just standing there as a prop. > Shame! > > Someone did do a PIC-Theremin project in EPE magazine a couple of years > ago, but it had a potentiometer as the > volume control, and I thought that was a copout (wasn't even a sliding > pot, as I remember!). > > The famous Beach Boys' use of a Theremin in "Good Vibrations" is dodgy > too - seeing the film of them doing it, > the pitch control is done using a sliding shorting bar on a pair of rails, > which makes it just a VFO in my > opinion, not a real Theremin. > > Cheers, > > > Howard Winter > St.Albans, England > -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist