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MUTR - weird materials & stuff
« on: March 03, 2009, 05:08:37 PM »

If you've ever wondered where you can get mirror sheet, that polymorph mouldable plastic, voltage reactive paint or any number of other weird materials and useful bits & bobs then look no further than Middlesex University teaching Resources at http://www.mutr.co.uk/

Check out the 10p 25 way serial cables in the Special Offers section. They have every pin connected straight through so if you do external patch boxes you won't find good quality cables cheaper than that.
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Re: MUTR - weird materials & stuff
« Reply #1 on: March 03, 2009, 11:13:53 PM »

If you've ever wondered where you can get mirror sheet, that polymorph mouldable plastic, voltage reactive paint or any number of other weird materials and useful bits & bobs then look no further than Middlesex University teaching Resources at http://www.mutr.co.uk/

Check out the 10p 25 way serial cables in the Special Offers section. They have every pin connected straight through so if you do external patch boxes you won't find good quality cables cheaper than that.

could you hack a serial cable up for an internal patch solution?
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Re: MUTR - weird materials & stuff
« Reply #2 on: March 03, 2009, 11:32:05 PM »

That's just brilliant. Thanks for another site that can bleed my bank account dry. Well, drier...  >:(
ha.
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well, I've just had a good trawl through their shop and it's truly great.
I'm pretty sure circuit bending was described as a cheap hobby in Ghazala's book... LIES! It's an expensive, overbearing and obsessive master and I'm at it's mercy... and now with all these shiny new materials at my fingertips, I fear the bank manager will be calling on his hired goons to take my thumbs and eyelids.
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Re: MUTR - weird materials & stuff
« Reply #3 on: March 04, 2009, 08:20:44 AM »


could you hack a serial cable up for an internal patch solution?

You could, but you'd probably find that cable is way to thick and unwieldy. I often use much thinner 25 way multicore for wiring up internal patchbays but its a bit tricky to get hold of. The guy at my local maplins kindly stole me a load of it when they stopped stocking it but other than that i've used a few thinner 25 way serial cables with the plugs cut off in the past.

That's just brilliant. Thanks for another site that can bleed my bank account dry. Well, drier...  >:(

You love it!

I think MUTR is the same place a few ebay sellers buy their weird materials for resale.
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Re: MUTR - weird materials & stuff
« Reply #4 on: March 04, 2009, 09:42:39 AM »

You love it!

i do  :-[

I've bought some lenticular sheets from ebay before... but MUTR is cheaper and has way more variety.
Mmmm... lenticulicious
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Re: MUTR - weird materials & stuff
« Reply #5 on: March 04, 2009, 11:02:21 AM »

oooh and look what type of Push-to-Makes they have http://www.mutr.co.uk/product_info.php?products_id=252  :)
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Re: MUTR - weird materials & stuff
« Reply #6 on: March 04, 2009, 11:37:44 AM »

are all shops to be judged by the calibre of their push to break buttons from now on?  :D
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Re: MUTR - weird materials & stuff
« Reply #7 on: March 04, 2009, 11:38:34 AM »

I think so, yes.  ;D
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Re: MUTR - weird materials & stuff
« Reply #8 on: March 04, 2009, 11:45:22 AM »

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are all shops to be judged by the calibre of their push to break buttons from now on?

I think a new standard as just been created.
From now we should give each shop a rating based on their push-to-break switches  :D
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Re: MUTR - weird materials & stuff
« Reply #9 on: April 15, 2009, 07:06:11 PM »

You could try bardwells  Ive heard they do good stuff and wierd stuff but not as wierd as yours
I cannot use mutr.com cos of place iam at and cos of type +age of computer
You rae verry lucky for have all this stuff at you dispoasal
 
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Re: MUTR - weird materials & stuff
« Reply #10 on: April 20, 2009, 09:18:22 PM »

Thanks for showing me this!

Look what you could use for an alternative casing; http://www.mutr.co.uk/product_info.php?products_id=550&osCsid=0003c851186c9833c23e15ef60981b8c  :o

...and that's just the 1st product I looked at lol  ;D
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Re: MUTR - weird materials & stuff
« Reply #11 on: April 23, 2009, 11:36:04 AM »

Does anyone know where i can buy a big bit of glow in the dark sheet? Like 1m x 1m kind of size. I thought MUTR might have it but it seems not.

It glows brilliantly when you point a UV laser at it!
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Re: MUTR - weird materials & stuff
« Reply #12 on: April 23, 2009, 02:37:18 PM »

Could you get something else and paint it?
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Re: MUTR - weird materials & stuff
« Reply #13 on: April 26, 2009, 08:32:49 PM »

What are UV lasers used for in the real world?
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Re: MUTR - weird materials & stuff
« Reply #14 on: June 05, 2009, 04:04:16 PM »

Taken from Wikipedia; Ultraviolet lasers have applications in industry (laser engraving), medicine (dermatology and keratectomy), free air secure communications and computing (optical storage). They can be made by applying frequency conversion to lower-frequency lasers, or from Ce:LiSAF crystals (cerium doped with lithium strontium aluminum fluoride), a process developed in the 1990s at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
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