I am often asked about the electronic gear that is in the installations. The electronics are all custom made, or customized from cast-ff or surplus electronic materials and devices. The research team who are working on the Kanobis Amplifier project are saddly underfunded (as is the case with many worthwhile research eneavors the world over). However, the work they are engaged in requires instrumentation that is not readily obtainable. Often they must work with various materials and equipment scavenged from dumpsters, puchased for cheap at surplus shops (may Ed Grothus and the Black Hole RIP), and left on their doorstep by generous patrons, engineers, mad scientists and so on...
In many cases, the gear is kluged together from materials spanning various ages. A modern didgital display may be coupled with a vacuum tube spectrometer, or the motor out of an analogue calculator might run a rotary switch to act as a timer. The servo out of a 1980's model car might move an LED display head scanning a scrolling paper document. Rarely do the researchers not find a way to solve a technology problem using this technique. It is fun to try and identify the differing types of technical stuff that goes into the frabication of the gear of the KARF installations.
Steve