Oh thanks for the reply.
[q]I don’t think it ever crossed my mind that anyone would use the Altura the way you are using it, by waving it around. I can understand that it is too heavy now with the metal case for that type of use. I think we might still have some acrylic case parts for the MkII, if you are interested in building an acrylic case for it. It would be much lighter than metal, but it may not be as light as cardboard.[/q]
I don’t know that anybody has really put a whole lot of thought into ways that the Altura can be used that are unlike the original Theremin. The original operates off of the general inductance from anything around it, I guess, and the Altura relies on the amount of what, lidar waves that it bounces off of the surface of things, and triangulates between the two sensors? So treating it like an imitation Theremin is missing out on a lot of what it’s capable of. Behold: