One should stop while one is ahead. Trite cliche? Yes. True for me today? Also true.

1. Visit the Ottawa science & technology museum.
2. Spot from afar kid #1 admiring electronic instrument.
3. Must be famous, find in the museum's awesome online artifact database.
4. Notice that this device is roughly as old as I am.
5. Google it, of course, starting with "minimoog circuit diagram".
6. Come across this collection of schematics, photos, manuals.
7. Admire the engineering craftsmanship from back in the days when electronics were simple enough to be understood by hobbyists.
8. Start showing the data to kid #2. Include the sounds made by this delightful device as recorded this video.
9. Follow reference to http://www.synthfool.com/ with more stories about the device.
10. Yep, amazing, reliving childhood & engineering fanboyness. Even contemplate building one, just for fun.
11. 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.