1970's Lightbox (Page 1/1)
CoolBlue87GT APR 06, 01:37 AM
I made this when I was 16 years old.
Patrick APR 06, 04:09 AM

I just had an acid flashback!
82-T/A [At Work] APR 06, 08:55 AM
That's so awesome! CoolBlue, where did you go to school?

My wife has one... we keep it downstairs, EXACT same thing, it just doesn't have a motorcycle on it. But it's also filled with Christmas lights. She made hers when she was in grade school (I think middle).

Oh dude, I just saw you're from Florida too. My wife went school in Miami for all grades (North Miami). It must have been a thing that they were all doing back then. Did you do this for school or was it just something you did as a kid on your own?

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williegoat APR 06, 11:58 AM
That reminds me of what used to be called a "Color Organ". Some of you "old hippies" will remember.

There used to be a guy here back when I was in high school who built one and brought it to a couple of dances we played and to the theater where I worked when we did a "midnight movies" thing.

Here is a link to the PE article that most people used to build them: https://archive.org/details...ol_org_9_69/mode/2up
maryjane APR 06, 11:21 PM
The colored lights you saw in Arizona in th early 1970s were completely different than the ones I saw in Arizona in the same time frame.

Arizona, Dodge City and Fort Apache were very very dangerous places.

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williegoat APR 07, 12:03 AM

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Originally posted by maryjane:

The colored lights you saw in Arizona in th early 1970s were completely different than the ones I saw in Arizona in the same time frame.

Arizona, Dodge City and Fort Apache were very very dangerous places.



That is some beautiful country up around Fort Apache, provided of course that you like trees.

Were you hanging out with Travis Walton?

edit: On second thought, you might have been the lights he saw.

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CoolBlue87GT APR 07, 08:10 AM

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Originally posted by 82-T/A [At Work]:

That's so awesome! CoolBlue, where did you go to school?

My wife has one... we keep it downstairs, EXACT same thing, it just doesn't have a motorcycle on it. But it's also filled with Christmas lights. She made hers when she was in grade school (I think middle).

Oh dude, I just saw you're from Florida too. My wife went school in Miami for all grades (North Miami). It must have been a thing that they were all doing back then. Did you do this for school or was it just something you did as a kid on your own?




Thanks, I grew up in Wheaton Maryland, I remember seeing products like this, decided to make one for myself. A few years later I bought one that was sound activated.
maryjane APR 07, 01:32 PM

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Originally posted by williegoat:

That is some beautiful country up around Fort Apache, provided of course that you like trees.

Were you hanging out with Travis Walton?

edit: On second thought, you might have been the lights he saw.




no.

Your Arizona and mine were way different, same era, half a world apart
williegoat APR 07, 02:48 PM

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Originally posted by maryjane:

no.

Your Arizona and mine were way different, same era, half a world apart



I see.

The AF used to do low level terrain hugging training with the B1 over the White Mountains back around 30 years ago. If you were camping up there, you would hear it, then the sky would black out for a fraction of a second, then it was gone. They had to stop after they broke too many windows on the ground.
theogre APR 07, 04:49 PM

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Originally posted by williegoat:
That reminds me of what used to be called a "Color Organ". Some of you "old hippies" will remember.

There used to be a guy here back when I was in high school who built one and brought it to a couple of dances we played and to the theater where I worked when we did a "midnight movies" thing.

Here is a link to the PE article that most people used to build them: https://archive.org/details...ol_org_9_69/mode/2up

Can make them Easier than that.
I made one in a large pill bottle w/ nothing but various filters & early LEDs ripped out of other things was dead. Don't think had a chip.
RC Low Pass for lows
RC High Pass for highs
RC Band Pass for middle tones
Hardest was removing label on bottle w/o damage it.

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