The best part is they never stopped making these. They come in all different shapes and sizes, but the general concept is the same, and they're a lot of fun (and occasionally kinda useful if you want to quickly test resistor/capacitor values and can't find a breadboard lol).
LOL! I did the same thing but with the spark gap generator project. I would hide it under the entertainment center so it would make the TV glitch every few seconds.
@@FunnyHaHa420 Oh my God I did that too! We had an antenna television and I would glitch certain channels that I didn't want to watch to get my parents to change the channel to something I could watch. So evil.
I got the Radio Shack 100-in-One kit (the successor to the 75-in-One) for Christmas in 1971. A couple years later I figured out how to make that sound from the breakdown section of Edgar Winter's "Frankenstein" with it. 🤓 I love that you were able to make a theremin with yours.
There's a site whose name sounds like "radio shack catalogs dart calm" (wink) where someone has scanned entire RS catalogs from multiple years. You can find these kits in the late '60s and early '70s editions.
I started making music using a "synth" I created with a Gakken Denshi Blocks set SR-2A starting off with an oscillator circuit for a water level alarm. I adapted it, added all sorts to it. Pots everywhere. A wah wah pedal as a filter, a tremolo unit without a case as an LFO, a transistor radio I tampered with to make it oscillate. I made a few tapes of it over several months with just a mono cassette recorder with the erase head covered so I could overlay sounds. I even made a hokey keyboard using brackets I found on a building site for keys and silver foil and a discarded wooden case which I painted in funny colours. Until some kind person gave me his home made Stylophone thing, no case, constructed on a PCB. A tunable keyboard. I put the whole thing in a case I found in an electronics shop, what it was for I do not know....some unfinished project, a panel with holes for pots, all ready to be populated. It was heavy and fragile but I got it to school to have jams with friends and even do an "avant garde recital..." It went the way of all childhood toys sadly. I got me started anyway. It was quite an absorbing activity. I missed it many years later and went looking for other such kits at boot sales. I have a slew of them. Maybe I'll get round to making something with them.
@@MatthewNorthMusic Thanks. I even joined the next door neighbour's group we named Green Rust, just acoustic guitars and singing. I put my thing through a Philips valve radio which had an audio input...I sat behind this mess and made funny noises with it to songs like "Electric Elephant..." I still have the tapes I made in my bedroom. Lots of squiggly noises, Formula 1 emulations and accidental cosmic jazz, like ring modulated clarinets tootling away played on a Morse code key, before being swept away by more noise. I got into creating big chords, fascinated by effects of combining sounds, again overlaying one sound at a time, bits of guitar, radio noise, experimenting with the cassette microphone, making spacey sea sounds by capturing noise and moving the mic from front to back of the radio, a kind of phasing effect. Wandering harmonics played on slide guitar. I still make music in the same vein almost....only now with proper equipment, and can now play the guitar properly. Cheers, Johann Kloos
Wow, can't believe it! I had that 75 in 1 when I was a kid. It had almost completely vanished from my memory. Thank you so much for posting this and brining it back for me!
DUB SIREN! I love doing that on a free mixer channel and sending it back to itself creating a feeback loop. i use the mute button on the channel to blip it through a delay. This is awesome, i've got one of the 75 in one in my basket
Back in the day before the Tom Scholz Rockman came out, at the recommendation of a friend, I bought a little plastic 9V speaker/amplifier (gray) from Radio Shack for $5.00 !!! You plug your guitar directly into it and the more you crank the volume, the more distortion it would deliver! It didn't sound that great but it was perfect for practice and it tucked neatly away in the compartment inside of your guitar case. I would compare the sound to one of those clip-on 9V Marshall mini amps, maybe not as good as the Marshall, but pretty damn close! I was always going to Radio Shack for this or that.
This is cool, I did something similar, early 80s with the EX150 Gakken hobby kit. I loved the EXKIT as it looked like a military radio with the green & black & the handle for field use.
Your tune made me think of Louis and Bebe Barons soundtrack to "The Forbidden Planet". Very Krell! 😃 Cheers ✌️ Edit: I forgot - Congratulations on the Million views 👍
WHA…?!? CAMBRIDGE? I have a few of these kits from Tandy (in this here New World we had a store called Radio Schack where these were sold). The name Forrest M. Mims iii always comes to mind, as he wrote and drew up most of the schematics that are illustrated, and he then again published them in collectible books titled the ‘Engineers Mini-Notebook’ series. Indeed, Forrest M. Mims III has achieved a cult following in the electronics hardware hacking or modding community. His Stepped Tone Generator has achieved global fame by its other more well known name, the Atari Punk Console. Mr. Mims III is no doubt responsible for making many Electrical Engineers from whom otherwise would have had quite possibly no foreseeable future. THANKS for sharing about this, especially the Cambridge kit! I guess maybe it was purpose packaged for sale at the Cambridge bookstore to sell as a souvenir for the younger sibling of the students? I wonder if Oxford ever made one?
I still have one. They came in a wooden box. When cleaning up, I wanted to throw it away, but my wife urged me to at least keep the box. Now i’m sad I don’t have the manual and can’t make projects.
The best part is they never stopped making these. They come in all different shapes and sizes, but the general concept is the same, and they're a lot of fun (and occasionally kinda useful if you want to quickly test resistor/capacitor values and can't find a breadboard lol).
This looks like it really inspired the aesthetic of the Moog Grandmother.
In grade school I did all of the 75 in one projects! My favorite was the solar powered annoy your brother with a high pitch oscillator sound project!
My sisters still talk about me doing the same thing!
LOL! I did the same thing but with the spark gap generator project. I would hide it under the entertainment center so it would make the TV glitch every few seconds.
@@FunnyHaHa420 Oh my God I did that too! We had an antenna television and I would glitch certain channels that I didn't want to watch to get my parents to change the channel to something I could watch. So evil.
I got the Radio Shack 100-in-One kit (the successor to the 75-in-One) for Christmas in 1971. A couple years later I figured out how to make that sound from the breakdown section of Edgar Winter's "Frankenstein" with it. 🤓 I love that you were able to make a theremin with yours.
1971 wow so this is even older then I though. Hence germanium transistors too !
There's a site whose name sounds like "radio shack catalogs dart calm" (wink) where someone has scanned entire RS catalogs from multiple years. You can find these kits in the late '60s and early '70s editions.
I started making music using a "synth" I created with a Gakken Denshi Blocks set SR-2A starting off with an oscillator circuit for a water level alarm. I adapted it, added all sorts to it. Pots everywhere. A wah wah pedal as a filter, a tremolo unit without a case as an LFO, a transistor radio I tampered with to make it oscillate. I made a few tapes of it over several months with just a mono cassette recorder with the erase head covered so I could overlay sounds. I even made a hokey keyboard using brackets I found on a building site for keys and silver foil and a discarded wooden case which I painted in funny colours. Until some kind person gave me his home made Stylophone thing, no case, constructed on a PCB. A tunable keyboard. I put the whole thing in a case I found in an electronics shop, what it was for I do not know....some unfinished project, a panel with holes for pots, all ready to be populated. It was heavy and fragile but I got it to school to have jams with friends and even do an "avant garde recital..." It went the way of all childhood toys sadly. I got me started anyway. It was quite an absorbing activity. I missed it many years later and went looking for other such kits at boot sales. I have a slew of them. Maybe I'll get round to making something with them.
That is an absolutely amazing story.
@@MatthewNorthMusic Thanks. I even joined the next door neighbour's group we named Green Rust, just acoustic guitars and singing. I put my thing through a Philips valve radio which had an audio input...I sat behind this mess and made funny noises with it to songs like "Electric Elephant..." I still have the tapes I made in my bedroom. Lots of squiggly noises, Formula 1 emulations and accidental cosmic jazz, like ring modulated clarinets tootling away played on a Morse code key, before being swept away by more noise.
I got into creating big chords, fascinated by effects of combining sounds, again overlaying one sound at a time, bits of guitar, radio noise, experimenting with the cassette microphone, making spacey sea sounds by capturing noise and moving the mic from front to back of the radio, a kind of phasing effect. Wandering harmonics played on slide guitar. I still make music in the same vein almost....only now with proper equipment, and can now play the guitar properly.
Cheers,
Johann Kloos
Wow, can't believe it! I had that 75 in 1 when I was a kid. It had almost completely vanished from my memory. Thank you so much for posting this and brining it back for me!
i just got a 1976 Tandy Radio Shack 150 in 1 off of Facebook and planning to sample it
The track 'Steel Car' by Beyond The Implode was recorded using one of the Tandy kits back in 1978
No way I will look for that I love TH-cam all this info amazing
This reminded me of Edgard Varèse's "Poème électronique". Cool!
I'll take that thank you
I had the 75-in-1 in about 1979, the manual does mention Moog music several times, and might have been the first time I heard about synths.
DUB SIREN! I love doing that on a free mixer channel and sending it back to itself creating a feeback loop. i use the mute button on the channel to blip it through a delay. This is awesome, i've got one of the 75 in one in my basket
Subscribed. Very cool.
Back in the day before the Tom Scholz Rockman came out, at the recommendation of a friend, I bought a little plastic 9V speaker/amplifier (gray) from Radio Shack for $5.00 !!! You plug your guitar directly into it and the more you crank the volume, the more distortion it would deliver! It didn't sound that great but it was perfect for practice and it tucked neatly away in the compartment inside of your guitar case. I would compare the sound to one of those clip-on 9V Marshall mini amps, maybe not as good as the Marshall, but pretty damn close! I was always going to Radio Shack for this or that.
This is cool, I did something similar, early 80s with the EX150 Gakken hobby kit. I loved the EXKIT as it looked like a military radio with the green & black & the handle for field use.
Your tune made me think of Louis and Bebe Barons soundtrack to "The Forbidden Planet". Very Krell! 😃
Cheers ✌️
Edit: I forgot - Congratulations on the Million views 👍
Thank you most kindly
Yes! Forbidden Planet with way less wires.
This reminded me a bit of a kit I built for a mate, the Casper Electronics Novadrone.
I just looked that up, looks like the sort of thing that could take out your speakers in an instant!
Congratulations, It may be a small geeky channel now but where did all the massively huge geeky channels begin? Keep up the good work!
Geeky and proud :)
I am an out, loud and proud geek!
WHA…?!? CAMBRIDGE? I have a few of these kits from Tandy (in this here New World we had a store called Radio Schack where these were sold). The name Forrest M. Mims iii always comes to mind, as he wrote and drew up most of the schematics that are illustrated, and he then again published them in collectible books titled the ‘Engineers Mini-Notebook’ series. Indeed, Forrest M. Mims III has achieved a cult following in the electronics hardware hacking or modding community. His Stepped Tone Generator has achieved global fame by its other more well known name, the Atari Punk Console. Mr. Mims III is no doubt responsible for making many Electrical Engineers from whom otherwise would have had quite possibly no foreseeable future. THANKS for sharing about this, especially the Cambridge kit! I guess maybe it was purpose packaged for sale at the Cambridge bookstore to sell as a souvenir for the younger sibling of the students? I wonder if Oxford ever made one?
I swear that licenced University of Cambridge kit is a close copy of a Tandy one - I think it was called the Digital electronics lab.
I still have one. They came in a wooden box. When cleaning up, I wanted to throw it away, but my wife urged me to at least keep the box. Now i’m sad I don’t have the manual and can’t make projects.
Hey, you made an MIA track
give it a week and this will be the next DnB tune. lol
Can I steal your composition Matthew to use as a ringtone on my phone?
ill send you the wav file if you like it ?
It's not exactly the Beatles, is it?
Take it your not familiar with George Harrison's Electronic Sounds ? . . .
@@MatthewNorthMusic you got me there!