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Multiple voltage power supply: a single device (i.e. a single 120VAC power plug) that provides various positive and negative voltages, probably most limited to less than one Amp. These are available, but in limited combinations: the hack proposed would allow any kind of extensibility. | Multiple voltage power supply: a single device (i.e. a single 120VAC power plug) that provides various positive and negative voltages, probably most limited to less than one Amp. These are available, but in limited combinations: the hack proposed would allow any kind of extensibility. | ||
you can make a (positive DC at least) adjustable power supply like that with a wall wart and a fifty-cent LM317 | you can make a (positive DC at least) adjustable power supply like that with a wall wart and a fifty-cent LM317 | ||
Anything with 12VDC, low voltage, low power, off-the-grid.... | Anything with 12VDC, low voltage, low power, off-the-grid.... | ||
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Is it possible to make a signal generator that drives an antenna at the frequency of visible light? Here's the tho't: we hear multiple octaves, about ten or so (piano-type keyboard devices generally support several octaves, a guitar supports four or five octaves...). But we see just a little less than one octave (we see a low frequency red through orange, yellow, green, blue, upper frequency violet; below red is infrared, above violet is ultraviolet, an octave is just below red to just above violet). I think it's possible, conceivable anyway, that we can train ourselves to expand our visual perception: to recognize a little below and a little above what we're used to and possibly stretch enough to see the octave: an infrared color that is half the frequency of an ultraviolet color. Singers exercise their voices to extend their ranges both downward and upward. It may be possible. If so, for the person who achieves this, their sense of color harmony will change, for in recognizing an octave in light, they can make better sense of harmonic relations that are apparent in music (the fifth and fourth degrees of a scale, major and minor thirds and sixths, augmented and diminished chord...). But the trick is training, and for that it seems is needed an antenna that generates light and can be modulated to produce the entire visible spectrum and beyond, both above and below. | Is it possible to make a signal generator that drives an antenna at the frequency of visible light? Here's the tho't: we hear multiple octaves, about ten or so (piano-type keyboard devices generally support several octaves, a guitar supports four or five octaves...). But we see just a little less than one octave (we see a low frequency red through orange, yellow, green, blue, upper frequency violet; below red is infrared, above violet is ultraviolet, an octave is just below red to just above violet). I think it's possible, conceivable anyway, that we can train ourselves to expand our visual perception: to recognize a little below and a little above what we're used to and possibly stretch enough to see the octave: an infrared color that is half the frequency of an ultraviolet color. Singers exercise their voices to extend their ranges both downward and upward. It may be possible. If so, for the person who achieves this, their sense of color harmony will change, for in recognizing an octave in light, they can make better sense of harmonic relations that are apparent in music (the fifth and fourth degrees of a scale, major and minor thirds and sixths, augmented and diminished chord...). But the trick is training, and for that it seems is needed an antenna that generates light and can be modulated to produce the entire visible spectrum and beyond, both above and below. | ||
Jonathan Foote writes: see my speculations about this at http://www.rotorbrain.com/blog/2008/10/on-harmony-of-light.html | Jonathan Foote writes: see my speculations about this at http://www.rotorbrain.com/blog/2008/10/on-harmony-of-light.html | ||