Concrete Music
It’s been retro hour here at variogr.am latest, I apologize but I promise I’m practicing for the onslaught of Current Events coming soon, see I’m just catching up.
I bet not many of you know that I once took part in suffocating a poor Analog Devices 21xx DSP in quick-dry concrete, but now I’ve unearthed the documentation to prove it. The gorgeous tones are pretty much all Ethan, the concrete was Ben’s idea, and I think Shifty and I spent a weekend in seclusion to make the one-byte-per second flash programmer DFS work on OS X.
A sad story with Concrete Music: we mailed VIDALIFE the actual product against their protests, cost us about $90 to ship, about $200 of board and parts got soaked in $5 five pound concrete mix. They of course didn’t turn it on during judging so as not to give us an unfair disadvantage, but I bet the satisfying clunk of the thing coming out of the mailer sealed us the 1500 Euros. It was tugged along to Barcelona shortly after, where it died an hour before the opening– static electricity! The short life of the machine.