One should stop while one is ahead. Trite cliche? Yes. True for me today? Also true.
- Visit the Ottawa science & technology museum.
- Spot from afar kid #1 admiring electronic instrument.
- Must be famous, find in the museum's awesome online artifact database.
- Notice that this device is roughly as old as I am.
- Google it, of course, starting with "minimoog circuit diagram".
- Come across this collection of schematics, photos, manuals.
- Admire the engineering craftsmanship from back in the days when electronics were simple enough to be understood by hobbyists.
- Start showing the data to kid #2. Include the sounds made by this delightful device as recorded this video.
- Follow reference to http://www.synthfool.com/ with more stories about the device.
- Yep, amazing, reliving childhood & engineering fanboyness. Even contemplate building one, just for fun.
- Find links about (synthfool collector) Kevin Lightner's disease, and 2014 death. Heart broken.
RIP.
PS. 12. Find out that Moog has put a near clone of this classic back into production.