[Herts] Hitchin Hackspace

Mike Roberts hertslug at mikerobe.org
Mon Oct 8 22:10:39 UTC 2012


The Hitchin Hackspace guys are really nice. Been along to one of their 
meets and a build session and intend to go to more.

Mie 8-{>

On 04/10/2012 11:35, Steve Clark wrote:
> The hackspace group have a social session next Tuesday and a build night
> the following Monday. Unfortunately I probably won't get to either
> session this month.
>
> http://hitchin.hackspace.org.uk/
>
> Nicolas, I am still intending to try some guitar effects circuits some
> time. If you can bring along some assorted transistors, diodes,
> resistors, capacitors next week then that may get me started. I don't
> seem to have much in the way of components these days, but do have
> breadboards and power supplies I can use.
>
> Over on http://linuxmusicians.com there has been some animated
> discussion on the state of Linux audio support. One guy has been posting
> long rants about how crap it is. I can see his point (to some extent). I
> don't know how many people work on this stuff, but I suspect their
> priority is just to get some sort of I/O working on any new hardware.
> Full support of high bit rates and other functions may be a luxury. I've
> been trying to work out what the current state of USB audio on Linux is,
> but most of what I find is either old or too technical for me. Luckily
> my ancient PCI interface is fully supported. When it comes to building
> my next PC I either need to make sure it has PCI or find an alternative.
> Apparently the latest Intel chipsets (Z77) do some sort of PCI
> 'emulation' that causes audio problems, according to the guy posting the
> rants.
>
> --
> Steve
> http://bagofspoons.net
>
>
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