low resolution photography by davin risk

Posts from May 2003

150 in ONE

150 in ONE

Photos taken with an Olympus D-460

I’ve had one of these Radio Shack “Science Fair 150 in ONE Electronic Project Kits” on and off since I was a pre-teen.

As a kid I made many fun gizmos with it: radio receiver, listening device, various enthalling logic gates. The odd thing was that when I got to high school, I was only mediocre at electronics and did better at programming in BASIC. Yes, it was the early 80’s…

In university a bought the “150 in ONE” again and used it to create a variety of electro-noise makers. One of the setups I dubbed the “Annoy-o-tron”; it generated a single tone pitch controlled by the 0-10 “CONTROL” dial and rapidly toggled on/off by running things through the light sensitive “CdS CELL”. Hours of noisy fun!

Someone somewhere in Guelph was (un)fortunate enough to hear the “Annoy-o-Tron” used on the radio (CFRU) on a number of occasions. I apologize to that one person who might have been listening.


trial & error / shadowy figure no. 1

trial error / shadowy figure no.1

CORRECTION! I thought the background pattern I used for this was one of the incredible pixel patterns created by Travis over at SquidFingers but it was actually made by Lorenzo Galante. Thanks Lorenzo, beautiful work!


convenience

convenience

Photo taken with a Lomo LC-A


big ghetto

big ghetto

Photos taken with an Olympus D-460

The “Boombox Birth” museum has it. It’s the 4th one on the page and seems to be one of the Holy Grails for boombox freaks.

This page about a JVC Binaural Headphone Microphone Combination also has a scan of an original magazine ad.


japanese shadow triptych

japanese shadow triptych

Photos taken with an Olympus D-460


city of and

city of and

Photos taken with an Olympus D-460