Jul 15th, 2009
by TheGeek.

Second to last post about the Weird Sound Generator. The build of the working components is complete and it is making sounds. And, yes they are weird. So there is truth in advertising, well not really advertising as I’ve never seen an ad for the Weird Sound Generator, so we’ll call it truth in naming. [...]
Jul 13th, 2009
by TheGeek.

Well I have gotten the front panel all wired up and am now working on getting it all connected to the PCB. I hit the local rat shack (yes Radio Shack it the top google hit for “rat shack”) and picked up a pair of helping hands. I dumped the magnifier off of them as [...]
Jul 6th, 2009
by TheGeek.

After quite some time of inactivity I have made progress on the Weird Sound Generator (WSG). From the last update you can see that plans have changed. The original plan was to do a custom front panel of etched brass. Well the etching was a complete failure. I might try again with something else but [...]
Mar 18th, 2009
by The Geek.

Well it’s time once again for a random Web link day. So lets grab the old die bag and see what we get… 1D10 rolls and comes up 6!! So Six link for today edition. First up is jmday.com. While she is not a geek, she does play one in real life. Came across her [...]
Mar 9th, 2009
by The Geek.

It’s been a while since I last worked on the Weird Sound Generator project even though I had most of the item on hand to proceed. So I have been trying for the last couple of days to get the face plate prepped for electro etching. After getting the face plate cut out of the [...]
Mar 2nd, 2009
by The Geek.

It’s weird, when I was working it was easier to come up with ideas for the daily update here. But, now that I am unemployed it seems that all the creative juices have been sucked out of my brain. It’s almost 22:00 and I’m just getting around to doing a post and it’s filler. Ok [...]
Jan 1st, 2009
by The Geek.

Welcome to 2009 and the start of another year here at TheGeekReview. Which means that it is time once again for New Year Resolutions. 1. Try and make TheGeekReview more about reviews. When I first started this site the original intent was to be mainly doing Book/Movie/Tech/ reviews, hence the the title. Since then it [...]