Experimental approaches to alternative gear.

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Experimental approaches to alternative gear.

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A pacemaker.
What to do, trigger device?
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Do those things react to any external stimuli, such as hormone flood or electrical impulse? Probably not. A firm 90 BPM or somesuch?

Fixed clocks get boring, but you could feed it into some set up that shifts/evolves with counting up beats and some variable sources like barometric pressure, outside temperature, lumens, etc.

I'd be thinking along the lines of analog computing.
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Reminds me of an article I read about a doctor who reclaims hardware like this to sell to third world countries. Crematories have to remove them before cremation.

I imagine these would be hard to modify or that is it would be hard to open them
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Yeah, I would expect dead simple with redundancy. Not a lot of angles to explore.

It is conceptually interesting though. That said, I would expect actual application to be tethered to the mundane, unless extraordinary efforts along support lines are executed.
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An old favorite and a classic noise generating system that I'm going to deploy for Halloween
A childs 78 record player with a contact mic glued to the reproducer. A worn Dewalt concrete blade acts a source material.

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Indeterminacy wrote: Mon Jun 21, 2021 6:48 am A pacemaker.
What to do, trigger device?

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I do believe these have some way to remotely monitor and adjust them without removing them from the person?

Was this in somebody's body?
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RUBBISH wrote: Sat Oct 30, 2021 8:56 am Was this in somebody's body?
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Indeterminacy wrote: Sat Oct 30, 2021 2:56 pm
RUBBISH wrote: Sat Oct 30, 2021 8:56 am Was this in somebody's body?
Yep.
Wow...cool!

So I not some gear head and my soldering sucks but....maybe it could be circuit bent?

Pacemaker Schematics: The schematics of the pacemaker electronics illustrating
a) the clockwork's micro generator...output?
b) a bridge rectifier
c) a buffer capacity
d) a pacemaker stimulus...input?
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I might have to keep my eyes out for VideoNow discs in the future...
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Old news for those who know me, but I dug through some old photos recently and found a few gems, including
  • A record made from cardboard (just noisy textural loops):
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  • Half a recorder with a contact mic stuck to it:
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  • DIY neanderthal tape echo:
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