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Blink Test

In Projects, Vast VU Meter on 6 May 2008 tagged electronics, test, video, vu meter with no comments

So there isn’t much I can do on the VU meter project until I get a hold of an oscilloscope. The next logical step would be to design the envelope follower that the comparator will receive input from, but doing this “blind” would be difficult. In the mean time I thought I’d check that the [...]

A Vast VU Meter

In Projects, Vast VU Meter on 2 May 2008 tagged art, electronics, lexington, radio, vu meter, wrfl with no comments

This is Patterson Office Tower (POT) on The University of Kentucky campus. It’s home to a small cafe/mezzanine, an obscure mathematics library, and the offices of all the professors and bureaucrats who don’t fit in the endearingly inefficient buildings elsewhere on campus. If, as civil engineers like to say, architecture is the art of wasting [...]