
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?
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