Author: Kit

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Technicolor Light meter find.

a small well worn metal box with a twistable round sensor head coming out the top of it. The detector face is green on one side and the back is black and has a ring of interesting texture on the back.
Technicolor 24 light meter
I was able to verify via old phone directories that the address and phone number in the included case are that of William V. Skall
Front of meter
24 in the bottom right of the meter.
Back of meter
24 can bee seen stamped in meter.

This meter came to me via thrift and I had no idea what I had found.

I was lucky enough that the leather case had the address and numbers for a William V. Skall. After using some online phonebook archives in California, I found some truth that this was his issued meter. Skall was an academy award winning Cinematographer/Director of Photography, did work on “Joan of Arc” and even worked with Alfred Hitchcock on “The Rope” to name a few.

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Please take care of each other.

Synth Audio Control idea…

Hi folks! Sorry for the delay in posts.

I have been trying to find a way to have someone call, control something, as well as actively hear the changes. I found thrift shopping this Linksys made Two (2) line SIP Analog Telephone Adapter (ATA) and at the local re-use place, this BroadcastTools line-Powered Hybrid.

This “Hybrid” acts like a bridge between the milk crate rack and the ATA. Giving you access to the caller mono audio (ex. a request line) via a send and also allows you to take a mono signal and send it over to the ATA for consumption at a remote location.

I also have been toying with the idea of trying to use DTMF to control things like relays. Maybe a drum trigger or gate of some sort?

Take care of each other.

TinyTools, Linksys ATA,
Call-in Hybrid/ATA Synth audio control Project.

A tale of two Tutors.

Recently Youtube user Techmoan posted an interesting historical video on an A/V format dubbed the Proto-powerpoint. The player of these film strip/8-track was called the TUTOR 16. This is interesting because this audio/data device reminds me of the one in my collection called the TUTOR 202. Check out the photos! Sadly, I have not found the programs that go with it and I am interested to see how the data was formatted on them. In the mean time I am going to try using this stereo cassette to 8-track adapter. I am guessing it is two tracks, one voice and one “data”.

Wish me luck and take care of each other.