(DRU July 2007 workshop materials page, participate! and check for updates)

Documents

• Tutorials
• Bill of Materials (BOM)

Specsheets

• 4093 Quad NAND gate Schmitt Trigger
• PIC 16F819 Microcontroller
• DS1267 Digital Potetiometer
• LM386 Audio Power Amplifier
• 40106 Hex Schmitt Trigger
• 555 / 556 Timer
• 4017 counter
• 4066 switch

MemPot

• Introduction (comment here)
  
• Schematic (jpg, not tested!)
• Eagle schematic & board file (not tested!)
• PIC code (V1.0)

Books:

• “Handmade Electronic Music : the art of hardware hacking” by Nicolas Collins
• “Timer, Op Amp, and Optoelectronic Circuits & Projects” by Forrest M. Mims III
• “Physical Computing” by Dan O’Sullivan & Tom Igoe

Links:

• Atari Punk Console
• Weird Sound Generator, Roy Wilson / musicfromouterspace.com
• Sound Lab Mini Synth, Roy Wilson / musicfromouterspace.com
• Get LoFi blog

(Draft 1, subject to change)

Day 1.

• introduction to workshop, background
• creative misuse of cheap logic chips for sound/noise making
• square wave & modulations from CD4093 NAND gate, schmitt trigger
• square wave & modulations from 555-timer (aka Atari Punk Console)
• options for additional modulations, interference and filtering
• experimenting on breadboard, notes for own instrument

Day 2.

• planning own instrument based on previous experiments
• soldering own instrument on stripboard
• soldering simple amp&speaker unit
• testing & debugging

Day 3.

• introduction to MemPot, Potentiometer with memory
• soldering MemPot PCB kit
• using MemPot for controlling own instrument
• the most annoying jamming session ever
• where next

Beeps , waves and bass lines

The Media Centre / Price : £30 (to cover materials cost only)

Tuomo Tammenpää + Daniel Blackburn

Three-day workshop on using and misusing analog and digital electronics and controllers for sound synthesis. By the end of the workshop you will be given all you need to take home your own electronic instruments of bleeping strangeness. Breadboard prototyping, PCB-soldering, simple PIC programming and most annoying jamming with kilo hertzs. Some previous skills on electronics will help but not absolutely essential.