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Tuesday, December 09, 2008

Homemade 555 Synthesizer


YouTube via sycmuzak
"My homemade 555 timer synthesizer. I made it in about 2 hours from 2 555 timers, 4 capacitors, 1 resistor and 3 potentiometers. Schematic can be made available if demand is high enough. This is one of my first 555 timer projects, and I'm a high school sophomore, so feedback is appreciated."

Update: Schematic via the comments and updated description on Youtube: http://img168.imageshack.us/my.php?im...

8 comments:

  1. nice work, i would like to see your schematic.

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  2. well i would not call it a synthesizer but good work.

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  3. Where can I adopt kids that can build me synthesizers?

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  4. Thanks for all the positive feedback guys! I got the schematic up in the description on you tube

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  5. nice job dude! i like the interacting sounds. you tune them to each other well...

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  6. Wow. i will build one like this

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  7. Does anyone know what those resistors and pots really are? I built this, and after some tweaking got it to work, but I used a 100k potentiometer, and for the resistor a 47k potentiometer (acts as a threshold dial) and a very low value resistor, I believe 150 ohms.

    Help would be appreciated, I'd like to build this properly again instead of just getting lucky.

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