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Asus Eee and M-Audio FastTrack Pro. Impressively, it just works - it's plug-and-play, you just need to select the correct hardware interface from within your audio software. (The Eee's internal soundcard is hw:0, and the USB interface is hw:1)
this is mESH, on a laptop, holding an external soundcard, with his furby Binary and a plush firefox on the couch behind him.
You don't get much more GEEK than that
CPU: Overclocker Rev.1.1 Intel® Core 2 Duo(E6600) E6700 Special (Conroe) 64BIT 2×2MB Cache (2*2400MHZ +8%); RAM: 2GB (2*1024MB DualChannel) DDR2-800 Kingston; Graphiccard: GeForce 8800 GTX 768MB PCIE; HDD: 320GB 7200upm SATA-II/300 Seagate 16MB Cache; Mainboard: Asus P5W-DH-Deluxe; Soundcard: Realtek ADI 1988 (8 Channel) onBoard; Network: 1000MBit/s onBoard; DVD: Samsung Light Scribe 18x DVD/CD Burner; CPU Cooling: Freezer 7 Pro Arctic-Cooling; PSU: 650w 120mm Ultra Low Noise; Firewire; USB 2.0 6x; Casing: NZXT LeXa Midi-Tower Aluminium - black OS: Windows Vista Ultimate;
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view pc components before assembly - _MG_1415 on a black background.
Soundcard PMT driver with Hamamatsu C4900-01 molded power suppy, LCD panel voltage meter and internal signal decoupling and low pass filter. The panel meter runs from an isolated voltage generated by the 12V input voltage running the HV power supply.
Schematic: snag.gy/X98fA.jpg
Macro Monday: Nothing bigger than a penny
I've been wanting to try and photograph a circuit board ever since I got my macro lens. I was thinking that the tracks would form interesting patterns.
This one is an old sound card, the tracks weren't that attractive, but quite liked this little chip.
Guts of the new machine:
It's a Q9650 w 8G memory and a whole bunch of disks with new bits:
An ASUS Xonar Essence STX Hi-Fi Sound Card (ahhhh the sound of silence - no more motherboard noise)
A Gigabyte nVidia GTX460 1G OC Video card (so I can run CUDA video apps)
An Antec 750W power supply to run it all.
And, after a couple of false starts, it works!
My PC setup in isolation from rest of society.
PC Specs:
CPU: i7 920 @ 3.6Ghz
CPU Cooler: Noctua NH12P Push-Pull
-Ram: G-Skill 6X2GB (12GB) Triple Channel DDR 3 1600Mhz
-Video Card: Sapphire ATi 4870 (512MB GDDR5), MSI 6600GT (128MB GDDR3)
Soundcard: Auzentech X-Fi Forte + Headphone Amplifier
Powersupply: Corsair TX-750W
Case: Antec 902
Hard drives: 60GB OCZ Vertex 2 SSD, WD Caviar Black 1TB, Hitachi Deskstar 1TB, 2TB WD Green
Other PC (not pictured): 13" Macbook Pro, 2009 Revision
Audio:
- Logitech Z5500 (5.1) + Logitech Z5300 (sub + 2 satelites) (2.1) = 7.2?
- Sennheiser HD555
Display:
- 2 X 22" Dell Ultrasharp 2209WA 2 (IPS)
- 19" Samsung Syncmaster 941BW
Network equipment:
- Linsys WRT310N Gigabit LAN (primary network)
- Linksys WRT54G running DDWRT (wireless network)
Peripherals:
- Logitech MX510
- Logitech MX Wireless Keyboard
- Logitech Webcam
- Cheap Deal Extreme card reader
- Xbox 360
Sample of transfering two frames (each frames starts with a long frame-marker) by blinking with the scroll-wheel-leds and sampling it with a usual soundcard.
Behringer Xenyx 802 mini mixer
Behringer FCA-202 firewire soundcard
Behringer headphones
Behringer C1 microphone
Tavolara is a small island off Sardinia, Italy. The island is a limestone massif 5 kilometres long and 1 kilometre wide, with steep cliffs except at its ends. Its highest point is 565 metres above sea level. Currently, the island is inhabited by only a handful of families, and has a small cemetery and summer restaurant. The water around the island is a popular spot for scuba diving. The nearest sizable town is Olbia, and the small fishing village of Porto San Paolo is directly across a small strait. The islands of Molara and Molarotto are nearby. Most of the population of the island was displaced in 1962 when a NATO radiogoniometric station was constructed on the eastern half of the island. The aerials from the station can be seen from quite a distance, and that entire half of the island is restricted to military personnel. Tavolara is also home of the VLF-transmitter ICV, which works on 20.27 kHz and 20.76 kHz and which is used for transmitting messages to submarines. It can be also received (but not decoded) by PCs with a coil as antenna at the soundcard entrance and a FFT-analysis software. The island and the surrounding waters are part of the Tavolara and Punta Coda Cavallo Marine Preserve created in 1997.
The environmental protections placed on the park has added restrictions to the use of the area for tourism.
edirol on the top, presonus firebox on the bottom. I'm replacing the presonus with the ua-25 because the ua-25 is usb, and so will work with my mini looping computer.
CPU: Overclocker Rev.1.1 Intel® Core 2 Duo(E6600) E6700 Special (Conroe) 64BIT 2×2MB Cache (2*2400MHZ +8%); RAM: 2GB (2*1024MB DualChannel) DDR2-800 Kingston; Graphiccard: GeForce 8800 GTX 768MB PCIE; HDD: 320GB 7200upm SATA-II/300 Seagate 16MB Cache; Mainboard: Asus P5W-DH-Deluxe; Soundcard: Realtek ADI 1988 (8 Channel) onBoard; Network: 1000MBit/s onBoard; DVD: Samsung Light Scribe 18x DVD/CD Burner; CPU Cooling: Freezer 7 Pro Arctic-Cooling; PSU: 650w 120mm Ultra Low Noise; Firewire; USB 2.0 6x; Casing: NZXT LeXa Midi-Tower Aluminium - black OS: Windows Vista Ultimate;
CPU: Overclocker Rev.1.1 Intel® Core 2 Duo(E6600) E6700 Special (Conroe) 64BIT 2×2MB Cache (2*2400MHZ +8%); RAM: 2GB (2*1024MB DualChannel) DDR2-800 Kingston; Graphiccard: GeForce 8800 GTX 768MB PCIE; HDD: 320GB 7200upm SATA-II/300 Seagate 16MB Cache; Mainboard: Asus P5W-DH-Deluxe; Soundcard: Realtek ADI 1988 (8 Channel) onBoard; Network: 1000MBit/s onBoard; DVD: Samsung Light Scribe 18x DVD/CD Burner; CPU Cooling: Freezer 7 Pro Arctic-Cooling; PSU: 650w 120mm Ultra Low Noise; Firewire; USB 2.0 6x; Casing: NZXT LeXa Midi-Tower Aluminium - black OS: Windows Vista Ultimate;
CPU: Overclocker Rev.1.1 Intel® Core 2 Duo(E6600) E6700 Special (Conroe) 64BIT 2×2MB Cache (2*2400MHZ +8%); RAM: 2GB (2*1024MB DualChannel) DDR2-800 Kingston; Graphiccard: GeForce 8800 GTX 768MB PCIE; HDD: 320GB 7200upm SATA-II/300 Seagate 16MB Cache; Mainboard: Asus P5W-DH-Deluxe; Soundcard: Realtek ADI 1988 (8 Channel) onBoard; Network: 1000MBit/s onBoard; DVD: Samsung Light Scribe 18x DVD/CD Burner; CPU Cooling: Freezer 7 Pro Arctic-Cooling; PSU: 650w 120mm Ultra Low Noise; Firewire; USB 2.0 6x; Casing: NZXT LeXa Midi-Tower Aluminium - black OS: Windows Vista Ultimate;
Ubuntu 7.10 Macbook Pro 15" ALSA Sound Preferences (Main Menu -> System / Preferences / Sound). Working Setup showing 'PCM' selected to enable keyboard volume control.
or JDD3J for short; straight from France. His set killed! He kept having sound problems though, because the stupid camera man was tripping over his wires.
"It's not my fault!"
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Blip Festival is a three day even in New York City dedicated to the fine art of chiptunes. That is, music that sounds like it's from the good ol' 8-bit NES. Most of these guys use a Gameboy's soundcard as the backbone, building on top of it with other elements.. The end result is nothing less of kick ass.
More to come in the following days.
Ever lost a file "somewhere" and never been able to find it on your system again?
Last week my pc died after telling me that the "NTLDR file is missing". Couldn't restart it, couldn't boot up even in Safe mode (F5) and couldn't find the "missing file"... depsite an array of diagnostics available on a cd-rom. After several days of cursing, the old girl decided to work after I simply copied the NTDETECT and NTLDR files from another mate's 'poota............. sheesh, why did it go missing in the FIRST place??? >8^<
Anyway, I thought tthis test macro pic was a suitable way of explaining why I have been offline. If you look inside your pc and see all these transistors, circuit boards and gizmo's, it's a wonder we can find *anything* that looks like a file. Modern technology, wonderful stuff (until it goes pear shaped =)
I've been testing sound input circuits for interfacing scintillator probes to PRA. This included direct coupling the blocking capacitor, external RC lowpass, and even a Gaussian approximation pulse filter.
In the case of a two stage RC lowpass into the microphone input of my netbook, there was not quite enough signal for looking at stuff just below 32 KeV in detail. I did not want to make up the difference by running the starved anode Bicron any hotter. It occurred to me that rather than a pre-filter high frequency amp, that a post filter audio amplifier might do, and that the phantom power intended for microphone preamps might be put to use. This was the origin for the Pra_Amplifier, which I am thinking of teaming with a USB-powered regulated high voltage supply to use in the field with my netbook.
My current home recording setup.
Consist of a Dell XPS M1710 laptop which I use only for music production, using Pro Tools.
Computer on left is for everything else
MBox 2 Pro containing soundcard and inputs for recording instruments.
Glyph 250mb External hard drive for audio.
Event nearfield monitors
Also shown is my Korg Karma workstation keyboard, and my square neck 'Dobro' leaning against the desk.
The keyboard acts as a midi interface as well as an audio recording unit.
Simple setup, but awesome sounds come out of what I have.
(Lots of software for effects and different sounds, so no hardware effects needed).
ive been missing my computer alot last months mostly the music. while one can always listen to music in webcafes or with portable player its just so much better with a proper soundcard, good headphones and of course winamp
Here's where I do my thing. Pair of 19" LCDs, one on top of a Nakamichi 480Z that I use to MP3 up old tapes, the other's on top of an old Technics SU-V60 Class AA amp that my brother found in pieces and I put back together. As good as new apart from the missing power button (I fashioned a temporary replacement out of a wine cork).
The amp's fed from my turntables/ mixer and an M-Audio Audiophile soundcard. It powers a pair of classic Infinity RS 9b speakers which I recently had re-coned.
I have a mouse for my left hand and trackball for my right. I alternate between the 2 now to help with the pesky RSI.
I made the desktop image about 8 years ago from various images I had on my computer.
Broken parts that I'm hanging on for the purpose of showing people what makes a computer tick without having to risk damaging working parts. Also, for historical reasons. "Look kids, this is how BIG hard drives used to be!"
It is very easy to work with the Harddisk box where it is possible to install up to four Harddisks. The box can be taken out, then connect all the cables, and then re-install the box in is proper place.
Second stage of my PC build included installation of the following:
CPU: INTEL Core2Duo E6850 3000 LGA775 4MB ATX
Motherboard: ASUS P5K Premium/WIFI-AP Socket775 FSB1333 ATX P35 RAID PCI-Express
CPU cooler: ZALMAN CNPS 9700 LED
RAM: KINGSTON 2GB RAMKit 2x1GB DDR2 PC2-8500 1066MHz nonECC 5-5-5-15
Harddisk: WD Raptor 74GB HDD 10000rpm SATA serial ATA 16MB cache 3.5" internal RoHS compliant
Soundcard: CREATIVE Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Gamer
All that is missing is the graphiccard.
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Trying out the 'macro' function on a Sigma 70-300 APO.
Add a couple of bright white LED's (10000 mcd) to swimming goggles and you've got a cheap strobe capable of photic driving.
Can be fed audio output from an MP3 Player or a PC sound card. Most of these devices can generate 4Hz or lower signal at a high enough amplitude to drive this circuit.
I would think almost any opamp could be substituted...TLC272 only chosen because it was the closest handy.
You can create low frequency wavefors easily using Audacity via Generate Menu ==> Tone... select low frequency (ie: 8Hz), amplitude=1. You can append multiple tone generations to get a range of strobing frequencies. If you select the 'Chirp' option you can create a sweep.
Then export the file as MP3 file and play out PC soundcard or load into MP3 player if you want this to be portable.
Audacity found at: audacity.sourceforge.net/
***WARNING*** Strobic flashing may cause epileptic seizures for predisposed individuals....it's rare but you might want someone around when you use this the first few times.