[Elecraft] OT: really cool home-brew electronic project

[Ron D'Eau Claire]

Fan-tas-tic! Tnx Tony. It very dramatically illustrates how CAD and fab
services have brought the ability to design and prototype new devices into
the hands of any capable engineer. 

Ron AC7AC

-----Original Message-----
This is not ham-related, but it illustrates that home design and building of
incredible electronic gadgets is still  alive and well. It does feature DSP,
microcontroller programming, and audio-processing stuff that certainly can
be tied to ham interests. I believe that reflector participant Ian GM3SEK is
an audio engineer, and perhaps there are others on the list as well who are
devotees of this kind of stuff. In any event, for anybody who likes
electronics, the entertainment value of this is outstanding.

The guy who did the project is a colleague of one of my sons at Penn State,
who did this in his spare time as a contest entry.

Here is the 1.5 Minute video that demos the "active pickguard" gadget:**

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhSo-udHuqM****



It seems mildly interesting, but you don't realize what you're looking at
until you see the "deep dive":****

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hI7nvLrYxc4****




This second video is just brilliant!


73,
Tony KT0NY