I've always loved making things, especially things that glow or make noises. If you're weird like that too, you'll love this project.
All you need is a pencil and few components from SP Road(if you live in Bangalore, else you can ask an EE friend of your's to point you to the place where 'you buy resistors and stuff')
The way it works is, there is a 555 chip on the circuit board.
The 555 chip is nothing to be scared of, it's just a chip that is used to generate square waves of your desired frequency and amplitude and this happens through pin 3.
You vary the frequency by varying the resistance between two pins(specifically pins 2 and 7). But the crazy thing about this project is that YOUR BODY is part of that resistance. So if you're a resistor, one hand is touching the contact on the pencil and your other hand is touching another part that you drew or flowing water or whatever. So the frequency of the sound changes as you change where your hand is touching!
I highly recommend that you try this out because it looks like awesome fun and I'll put a post if I get to make one of these too.
Check out the video of the awesome folks from make showing us how to make one:
Today's #CheckItOut song is a weird one that you could probably cover with your Drawdio, it's called Moisturize The Situation by Consider The Source!
The way it works is, there is a 555 chip on the circuit board.
The 555 chip is nothing to be scared of, it's just a chip that is used to generate square waves of your desired frequency and amplitude and this happens through pin 3.
You vary the frequency by varying the resistance between two pins(specifically pins 2 and 7). But the crazy thing about this project is that YOUR BODY is part of that resistance. So if you're a resistor, one hand is touching the contact on the pencil and your other hand is touching another part that you drew or flowing water or whatever. So the frequency of the sound changes as you change where your hand is touching!
I highly recommend that you try this out because it looks like awesome fun and I'll put a post if I get to make one of these too.
Check out the video of the awesome folks from make showing us how to make one:
Bro where do you find these songs?! That bassist and that double neck headless :O
ReplyDeleteThis one, I found on that listentothis subreddit :P
DeleteHere's a better video that wasn't getting embedded:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=JkEihBCzsqM