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ngdbud

Jan 1, 1970
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I will be the first to admit that I am a bit of nerd in loving to know
how things work. I also love music so I know much of how the music
world works. I was sitting at the computer with guitar in hand looking
up when I noticed some interference. I know that a guitar pickup works
by a coil of copper wire wound around a powerful magnet to detect
changes in magnetic feilds, and that speakers work almost in reverse;
creating fields by a copper wire wound around a magnet, only this time
an alternating current in the wire vibrates the magnet attatched to a
diaphragm. This is when my amazing idea hit, the speakers in my ipod
ear buds create fields, and my guitar detects them. So I decideed to
try a little experiment and set my earbuds on my guitar pickups, turned
the amp up, and hit play. Instantly "Caught Up In You" was blasting
throughout my bedroom with more than decent sound quality.

That was just one I thought I'd have to share with the rest of you
 
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Mike Alpha

Jan 1, 1970
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ngdbud said:
I will be the first to admit that I am a bit of nerd in loving to know
how things work. I also love music so I know much of how the music
world works. I was sitting at the computer with guitar in hand looking
up when I noticed some interference. I know that a guitar pickup works
by a coil of copper wire wound around a powerful magnet to detect
changes in magnetic feilds, and that speakers work almost in reverse;
creating fields by a copper wire wound around a magnet, only this time
an alternating current in the wire vibrates the magnet attatched to a
diaphragm. This is when my amazing idea hit, the speakers in my ipod
ear buds create fields, and my guitar detects them. So I decideed to
try a little experiment and set my earbuds on my guitar pickups, turned
the amp up, and hit play. Instantly "Caught Up In You" was blasting
throughout my bedroom with more than decent sound quality.

That was just one I thought I'd have to share with the rest of you

Try this. Put a TV/VCR/DVD <whatever> remote control near your pickups, hit
a button and you'll be able to listen to the data code pulses being sent to
the infrared diode.

Mike
 
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spudnuty

Jan 1, 1970
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Mike said:
Try this. Put a TV/VCR/DVD <whatever> remote control near your pickups, hit
a button and you'll be able to listen to the data code pulses being sent to
the infrared diode.

Mike

I remember when the first IBM computers came out in the early '60s the
tech guy who was showing off the computer put a AM radio on top of the
box. Ran a little program and a tune came out of the radio. I think it
was Daisy but that might be HAL.
Richard
 
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RichCI

Jan 1, 1970
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ngdbud said:
I will be the first to admit that I am a bit of nerd in loving to know
how things work. I also love music so I know much of how the music
world works. I was sitting at the computer with guitar in hand looking
up when I noticed some interference. I know that a guitar pickup works
by a coil of copper wire wound around a powerful magnet to detect
changes in magnetic feilds, and that speakers work almost in reverse;
creating fields by a copper wire wound around a magnet, only this time
an alternating current in the wire vibrates the magnet attatched to a
diaphragm. This is when my amazing idea hit, the speakers in my ipod
ear buds create fields, and my guitar detects them. So I decideed to
try a little experiment and set my earbuds on my guitar pickups, turned
the amp up, and hit play. Instantly "Caught Up In You" was blasting
throughout my bedroom with more than decent sound quality.

That was just one I thought I'd have to share with the rest of you


Try putting a vibrator up to your pickups.

(Actually, any motorized device will do - like an electric drill a la
Van Halen's "Pound Cake" - but a vibrator is probably the most
interesting piece of hardware you can use.)
 
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west

Jan 1, 1970
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ngdbud said:
I will be the first to admit that I am a bit of nerd in loving to know
how things work. I also love music so I know much of how the music
world works. I was sitting at the computer with guitar in hand looking
up when I noticed some interference. I know that a guitar pickup works
by a coil of copper wire wound around a powerful magnet to detect
changes in magnetic feilds, and that speakers work almost in reverse;
creating fields by a copper wire wound around a magnet, only this time
an alternating current in the wire vibrates the magnet attatched to a
diaphragm. This is when my amazing idea hit, the speakers in my ipod
ear buds create fields, and my guitar detects them. So I decideed to
try a little experiment and set my earbuds on my guitar pickups, turned
the amp up, and hit play. Instantly "Caught Up In You" was blasting
throughout my bedroom with more than decent sound quality.

That was just one I thought I'd have to share with the rest of you

Playing my Strat with a cell phone in my front pocket. Phone rings.
Neighborhood knows.
 
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grolschie

Jan 1, 1970
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Playing my Strat with a cell phone in my front pocket. Phone rings.
Neighborhood knows.

Or....playing strat with cellphone in pocket. Cellphone gets bumped and
dials neighbor. Neighbor knows who.... ;-)
How many times have you been phoned by someone with their cellphone in
their pocket......
 
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Lord Garth

Jan 1, 1970
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grolschie said:
Or....playing strat with cellphone in pocket. Cellphone gets bumped and
dials neighbor. Neighbor knows who.... ;-)
How many times have you been phoned by someone with their cellphone in
their pocket......

Ever try locking the keypad? That works for me!
 
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spudnuty

Jan 1, 1970
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ngdbud said:
Just tried it, I like that one.
I actually hadn't thought about this since I saw it in the '60s.
I just tried it myself in an eMac that I had on the bench. It was quite
cool, on start up you could hear the switching power supply start up. I
wonder if you had an AM receiver that tuned much higher frequencies you
would hear more interesting stuff. I do have a shortwave receiver but
it's down. I'm going to try it inside near the motherboard.

On the vibrator as posted below. Have you tried that while watching TV.
You get some interesting distortion effects esp if the vibrator has a
variable control. Hey, Newton stuck things in his eyes.
Richard
 
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ck

Jan 1, 1970
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spudnuty said:
I remember when the first IBM computers came out in the early '60s the
tech guy who was showing off the computer put a AM radio on top of the
box. Ran a little program and a tune came out of the radio. I think it
was Daisy but that might be HAL.
Richard

When I was in high school we had an IBM 360 mainframe ( took up the whole
room ) with a CPU the size of a refrigerator. We would place an AM radio on
top of the CPU and load a FORTRAN program deck, which when executed would
play *Flight of the Bumble Bee*

We also kept a vase with a flower in on top of the CPU to remind us the damn
thing was a bloomin' idiot <g>

Chris
 
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ngdbud

Jan 1, 1970
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www.scitoys.com. There are plans on that site somewhere for modifying a
cheap fm radio into high frequency am reciver for listening to aircraft
signals. I myself haven't tried it.
 
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