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Show HN: I built a synth for my daughter

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Re: Show HN: I built a synth for my daughter

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Post by random_moonwalk »

TurkishPoptart wrote: post #121

Good lord, you must have an amazing wife/support system to give you some peace while you designed this amazing toy.

I am very lucky in this regard, my partner is amazing indeed! Most of the work was at night, so I hopefully didn't disrupt her too much.

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Post by solfox »

Brajeshwar wrote: post #20
solfox wrote: post #17

Looks amazing! Reminds me of a funny reddit thread about a man who built a fiber optic star ceiling for his daughter. The top comment was "First child?". :) https://www.reddit.com/r/DIY/comments/8g8pce/fiberoptic_star...

And then the things you do to redeem your guilt for the second child is a whole interesting area.

When I first saw the starfield post, I had one kid. I was building her all sorts of cool stuff: brio table, custom childrens book, etc. So naturally, I disbelieved the assertion that my second child would get anything less than my first. Alas, the insight is spot on - for all your good intentions, the second child gets shafted. I think it's just one of those things you have to experience to get it.

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Post by random_moonwalk »

Nition wrote: post #167
random_moonwalk wrote: post #116

Thanks for all the kind words and feedback. There are some comments expressing interest in supporting a Kickstarter etc. If you're interested in receiving updates you can leave your email here: https://tally.so/r/Y55dXv Thanks again - this was a bit of a surprise!

If you ever did this as a larger Kickstarter type project, I wonder if it'd be possible to get stepped faders so you could physically click-click-click-click through each semitone.

This is a cool idea, but you can switch between major, minor, chromatic and pentatonic scales so the interval between notes changes depending on how many there are so having fixed clicks wouldn't work in that case.
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