Way back in 2016, I started to get very interested in getting a pilots license. I had been casually using X-Plane prior to this, but now started to take it more seriously. I built a mediocre flight sim control panel using off the shelf hardware from Saitek at first. In 2017, I decided to enroll…
Tag: DIY
Bell Labs Speech Synth Kit
2018 has been the year of my obsession with speech synthesizers. I’ve been experimenting with the Ginsing/SoundGin IC for awhile and recently created my own eurorack-based synth module. In researching speech synth chips, I came across a very cool Bell Laboratories Speech Synthesis Kit, from 1963, on Ebay. A little beat up, but never put…
Wireless Power Transfer
I don’t remember how I got it, but I’ve had this old project my Dad built back in his college days. He built it as an experiment in wireless power transfer, or WPT. From Wikipedia “WPT is the transmission of electrical energy without wires as a physical link. In a wireless power transmission system, a transmitter device,…