Synth Fan oscillator

A fun construction that I did a while ago.
In live it really deploys bass from beyond the grave (which we don’t really hear in the video)

Work on 12V

synth-fan-small-circuit

later I added some functions (a sort of VCA with clock in / and division clock select with a CD4040 and a reset button for syncro)

Test with 4017 sequencer

infact a very simple drone but I found it funny :slight_smile:

if some like this kind of hack, I have other but I hesitate a little bit to post this kind of thing because a little far from modular (even if some modified one could make some strange modules)

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hacks are good! (and it’s not like @lookmumnocomputer hasn’t posted silly/weird/awesome non-modular things earlier, so they definitely fit the theme)

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What he said. I really love to see things like this. If nothing else they stir the creative juices.

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ok well, i will post some more from time to time

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Yeah do that please!

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Sam literally has a fidget spinner mod video.

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That is absolutely FANtastic Hahahah but really good stuff!

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yes the double spinner and with the guitar mic, i have made some “tremollo/LFO” with LDR and motor or fidget spinner, but here what is different and interesting is that it produces sound itself with speed

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“Sound with Speed” sounds like a pretty hardcore band :rofl:

Love this project!

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You didn’t share this idea with anyone from Gamechanger, did you? I think they might have ripped you off!

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I think this is more likely just a case of simultaneous invention. Would be something if it was actually inspired by Dud.

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Is Dud Gus Gijs? I thought he was French? :grinning:

(looks to me like Dud is riffing on an earlier idea, and I’m pretty sure there’s prior art for that one too because there always is :smiley:)

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the schem has post in this thread is (like @fredrik show) from Gieskes

here’s his version for modular

https://gieskes.nl/eurorack/?file=vco-fan

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Gus? That dude is called gijs, and his domain ends in .nl . Gijs is a Dutch name and .nl is Netherlands, so I have to assume he’s from there

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Ah, right, misread the handwriting, and the site is the first hit for “Gus Gieskes” so didn’t spot the mistake. Also, the second hit mentions a “Gus Gieskes (NL)” so it’s not just me :smiley:

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Someone should be working on their handwriting then, haha. Not that I have much authority in that department.

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Well, I made the mistake so I should work on my Dutch handwriting reading skills :upside_down_face:.

On the other hand, a quick peek at Wikipedia makes me wonder if you guys aren’t asking for trouble here: “Sans serif uppercase IJ glyphs, popular in the Netherlands, typically use a ligature resembling a U with a broken left-hand stroke” and the article then goes on to complain about Y/y looking like IJ/ıȷ in Dutch handwriting.

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At least he’s not Gilles and getting called “Jill!”

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They do look alike, difference being mostly that you put tittles on ij and don’t put them on a y. We have some confusing names for these letters anyways, as we call ‘ei’ long y, ‘ij’ short y, and y is called greek y. It’s because they all get pronounced similarly.
Another difference between writing ij and y in handwriting usually is that y has an open loop and ij is closed. I’ll add a picture to demonstrate.

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Mooi handschrift, en op de lijntjes, dat zie je niet vaak !

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