....and On a lighter note

[Stugots]

Live mario

http://www.break.com/index/livemario29.html

[Jim Tressel]

Check this shit out:

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[Jim Tressel]

There's some good stuff in this one as well:

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[Jim Tressel]

And cause I know we got some Tetris fans out there:

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[Jim Tressel]

It's pretty amazing how they do this.  Basically, they are hooking an input (keyboard, guitar, midi player, whatever) to a light modulator that sends light pulses to the coil at the frequency of the note that is desired.  The light signal is received at a "switch" that turns the coil on and off at that frequency.  IE: If you play the note that exists at 100hz, the coil turns on and off 100 times a second.  By doing this, they are modulating the frequency of the coil bursts, which controls the tone of the sound you hear instead of just a lot of loud snapping and popping.