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Greg
Roj: I get the sentiment you are invoking with Ramble on. I love that song. I don't mean to suggest your offerings are meager. I am impressed with the descriptions of your midi based system, and I expect you are correct in suggesting my system could benefit from following a similar development path.
Thing is, when I think of my next major development effort, I'm thinking of those 5 lonely TTL show steps signals and the complete set of the custom machined parts and the solenoid driver schematic necessary to rebuild the scan glass system. That will be a big project though. I don't know anything about machining, sourcing steel rods, working with brass tubes, finding the right screws, 3D printing a chassis, etc. I have word on one complete scan glass system in existence, but the owner didn't follow through with sending any photos, so I can't count on that.
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