My Story - How a Pizza Parlor visit changed my life
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- Опубліковано 15 вер 2024
- I've been running Notes and Volts for 10 years! Why do I do it? This is my story.
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Same story but I was middled-aged crisis man wanting to build a synthesizer!
LoL!
LOL - I used to be a field tech in those days, repairing these exact machines. Beer halls, pizza places, bowling alleys, and, of course, arcades. When I'd come in to work on one, the kids would yell "hey the tech is here!" They were excited because I'd open the coin doors on a bunch of machines and click off a dozen or so credits. And on the rare occasion that the location's manager or an employee would question it, I'd just say nonchalantly "well, you want your paid games to work, right? Someone has to run periodic tests on them." And yes, Space Invaders, along with Asteriods, were the most played.
Nice! That sounds like an awesome job
Dave, you really help people like me because you dig to the details to make us possible to complete our personnal electronic projects. I have the same passion like you, electronics and music. I started programmation with the C64, music with Atari 1040ST and the early versions of Cubase. I bougth my first synth (a Roland D5 ) and post my demos on MySpace but came to the conclusion like you that few people really find succes, of course my lack of talent was the main cause. lol. For now I play with Teensy and Arduinos making euclidean sequencers, synth and other stuff.
Thank's Eric! I'm glad you are still tinkering. Now that I do music for my own enjoyment, I'm having much more fun LoL.
Good on ya, buddy. Livin' the dream. Music and electronics are my twin interests, too. I've already learned a lot from you. You have another asset that you don't credit yourself with - a very laid-back temperament. It makes you a great teacher.
Thank you very much chapogee!
Your story was pretty much the same as mine except for me being raised by a family of one-legged raccoons, hauling accordions as a roadie for Lawrence Welk and the 15 years I was in a Turkish prison (no one can roll a cigarette using only their left ear faster than me). Happy 10th.
I would pay to see that movie!
Hiah Dave. I started tinkering with electronics 9 years ago. Built a guitar and Amp and never played them. Built several quadcoptors, 4, 3-D printers. CNC machine and yes your synth! GREAT STORY THANKS, your a great story teller.
Very cool! Thanks Mark
I'm so happy I've found your channel. Your ability to teach and your willingness to share knowledge is so wonderful. Because of you, someday I'm going to make a teensy synth.
Thank you so much!
one of the best things I have seen on UA-cam, great story, thanks for sharing 👊
Happy 10 anniversary!!! Like you’ve heard before same story with me. Radio Shack + Styx Album + BASIC…. I’ve mentioned this before, your UA-cam channel changed my life. And I shout your name and Notes and Volts out whenever I can. Conductive Labs would not exist without your great videos.
And that closing guitar jam is awesome.
Thanks so much legosteveb! Awesome as always :) Pieces of Eight was one of my favorite albums.
@@NotesAndVolts That was my first concert :-)
Also Electronic and IT technical college diploma owner here :) Electronic is my hobby, programming is my job, music is my passion!
Nice! We need to come up with a secret handshake for Electronics Technicians LoL
KITTY!
I had that book as well. Ahhh memories...oh and was writing this when you mentioned kiss destroyer. That album saved my life. Growing up in the Midwest you liked either country or KISS.....so yeah the choice was a well made one.
Thanks Jason. How could anyone not love Destroyer!
Great video. My Radio Shack experience must have happened at least a decade later, because their prices were extremely high and the inventory was minimal until they went out of business. Now components are reaching Radio Shack prices online and companies are selling disposable gear for cheaper than the sum of their parts. It was a glorious window before it was nailed shut. I admit, I'm a through hole guy and I suck at coding. I have a pile of Arduinos that I've done nothing with, that's how I found your channels. Thanks, btw.
Thanks Trevor! I think you just missed the RS golden years.
Enjoyed this!
Thanks Julie :)
Thank you sir, your story is amazing and inspiring.🙏
Thank you Paul!
Looks like we both have the Forest Mimms book. It seems we had similar experiences. I always wanted a Moog modular synth and tried to figure out how to build one. Always wanted a computer back in the 60's but had no million dollars, found out about Digital's mini computer but at 50,000 dollars… Decided to get spark plug wires from a car parts place and as I was leaving, saw a micro computer store… Stayed till midnight talking computers with the owner and for 500 dollars, got my first computer in 1976. Who knew computers could emulate a Moog synth. In 1974 took a home study course "electronics technician with engineering" - The rest is history. My dreams were to have a computer, moog synth, flying planes and going to space. Three out of four aren't too bad.
That's amazing Phil! Very intersting history. What was the computer you picked up in '76?
@@NotesAndVolts I had always wanted an altair 8800 and when I talked with the computer store owner, he convinced me that I did not want it (though I loved all those switches and LEDs) and he explained that to use it, you had to enter through those switches, a small program to read a keyboard on an RS232 port, then use the key board to enter a program to read a cassette tape to enter BASIC and then run basic to load the program. So, he talked to me about the SWTPC (South-West technical product center) which had an ON/OFF switch and a RESET button. It ran an early BIOS called MIKBUG from Motorola using a 6800 CPU with 4k of ram. It was able to read keyboards, cassette tapes, punch tape readers and display through RS232 to a 40 character by 16 line screen using a modulator to TV device. Those were the days.
Very cool! I always wanted an Altair just because it was a beautiful machine. I eventually built a replica just so I could experience the golden age of computers. I used it in this video LoL ua-cam.com/video/HzhRxnn0CCo/v-deo.html
The SWTPC looks great! Must have been very exciting to own back then.
@@NotesAndVolts Ah yes. Those early "micro" computers were kits and you had to solder every single component, wire, connector etc. In my case, I had 1760 solder points to do (though I had one board per month - on average) it wasn't too bad. Once everything was complete, there was no communication with the screen or keyboard. I later figured it was the rs232 chip that was defective. They sent another and voila... Instant joy. Just as an aside, memory at that time, were 2102's (If I remember) which were 1k x 1 bit. Each chip was 16 pins alone so, 16 x 8 for 1k times 4 for 4k so you can see how fast the solder points increased.
just found you after 10 years lol. I love guitars and electronics and worked in IT too. Although i don't really know much about microcontrollers, more an analogue guy who used to build and mod pedals.. i just found your vids on midi and the arduino..which is really interesting to me these days.subbed liked and all that..cheers mate
That's great raindogred! Welcome aboard!
great story to share bro was a pleasure to hear the trials and accomplishments.
Thanks Ray!
Awesome story, also note and volts is a excellent name.
Thanks William!
Awesome journey! Greetings from Peru
Thank you Anibal :)
I really love this story!
Wish you all the best Dave
Thanks Waldemar!
Your 'notes and volts' name is honestly amazing on many levels.
They both have 5 letters for example. Aesthetic a f
Thank you!
Very inspirational. Keep up the good work!
Thanks so much!
Thanks man your work is super inspiring
I appreciate that!
06:10 You could try lowering the strings and maybe trying thinner ones!
You're doing a great job btw!
Thank you CD, I might one day.
Great song at the end
Thank you!
hey dave. your story is really inspiring. i hope to be like you one day!
Thank you so much!
Nice to hear about your youth and your determination of making stuff! Thank you!
Glad you enjoy it!
Great story!
Thank you!
10 yrs Respect 💪
Thanks!
You are a legend!
LoL! Thanks Overbeck
Your channel is really inspiring, thanks for sticking with it! I've started a blog too, hoping that eventually I can make videos just as you have 🙂
Thanks Jackson! Good luck with your blog
Congratulations! Me too. A guy who is in music and electronics, but not western. I am with North Indian music, I have tried a lot to do something after I saw your video's but still, it seems pretty hard. Why not try something like that?
Very cool!
Can we build something like a whammy pedal of our own, which we can separate the wet and the dry signals using a microcontroller board?