Get LoFi Circuit Bending Blog

Circuit Bending and Synth building blog for beginners and pros alike. Featuring Circuit Bending resources that include: Tips, images, audio, and video. The lowdown on my new instruments, Glitch art, Minimalist ideas, electronic music, etc.

Wednesday, September 28, 2005

Tiny Opto Theremin

Over the weekend I tried to make the smallest possible opto theremin based on the common 555 chip. It uses one photocell and one 10uF capacitor. There is a switch embeded that inverts the Wave and Duty creating a different tone color of the square wave. At the bottom there is a 9volt connector. The headphone jack is soldered directly to the pin 3 of the output with a 8 ohm resistor to match the impedence. Everything is shrink wrapped with a hole cut for the opto resistor and fiilled with hot glue for durability. I will post audio files soon as well as a schematic once I find some free drafting software.

6 Comments:

  • At 9/29/2005 04:33:12 PM, dach said…

    Circuit Maker has a student version thats free. It lets you test your circuits aswell
    http://www.microcode.com/downloads/student.htm
    Hope its useful to you

     
  • At 9/29/2005 05:30:56 PM, monki said…

    The software that was used for the Soundlab Mini Synth schematics is freeware, put out by RJWSoft:
    http://www.musicfromouterspace.com/SchematicEditorPromo/schematicpubwebpage.html
    I haven't tried to use it, but the output would appear to be rather nice.

     
  • At 9/29/2005 09:26:12 PM, Master said…

    Nice, Thanks everyone.

     
  • At 9/30/2005 01:58:04 PM, ThereminWorld said…

    Slick! Looking forward to that schematic.

     
  • At 10/03/2005 12:22:48 PM, cemenTIMental said…

    Nice! Tiny circuits are always good.

    Great blog by the way... I'll add it to my links page when i fiiiiinally get around to updating it! :-S

     
  • At 10/06/2005 09:06:48 AM, Cacophony said…

    Schematic, yo?

     

Post a Comment

<< Home