HEY?! That’s really cool, to build switch sharing in mind as a part of the building plan. As I have progressed in many disciplines such as mechanical design or carpentry, electronics, and music theory since my synth diy efforts began about 6 years ago, it had occurred to me early on that without at least someone to sort of listen to me talk about the aspects that I am excited about and understand me and sort of share my excitement with me while I talk about the stuff, well then that makes my efforts basically worthless. It’s very true that I had overlooked that desire in me to share, and I failed in my foresight by not making that aspect part of my original plan before I dove into this synth electronics hobby. Now, with the pandemic business, I only see what we’re few possible opportunities to share are now even fewer still. I’m working on getting a couple cameras operational and a computer as my laptop’s monitor is shattered presently. I own many of these electronics trainer toys called LittleBits, and so I really wanted to start a YT channel so that I could have a sort of LittleBits sound focused channel. Time will tell how committed I’ll be, but I really have desire so maybe just by writing about it here it might light a flame beneath my tail and serve to inspire. Your video is inspirational, so THANK YOU for sharing your creations!! (I love the alternating color green/amber inverted LED chaser!)
Very nice! I've been working on a similar idea using a small flight case, but haven't come half as far as you yet. This has given me a bunch of inspiration. I'm not too sure about how to connect various circuits together, but there's abunch of ideas in this which I think will help me. I noticed the quick subliminal frames in the video towards the end as well!
Hi , amazing machine !! I was wondering if you could help me , im building something similar to the first part of your circuit (4017 seq , to 40106 oscilator ) and im not really shure how to conect the outputs of the 4017 to the 40106 im only getting 1 note . Help would be very much appreciated , THANKS!!
Hey you are using the cd40106 Schmitt trigger right. I have been messing around with them too. I heard that you need to tie unused inputs to ground if you are only using a few of the oscillators do you know anything about that? It has something too do with them being CMOS chips.
I am using a 40106 - such a cool chip. (It can do more than just create oscillators, it can also invert signals from high to low and vise versa) TBH, that's mostly a best practice thing - the unused gates when left hanging (connected to nothing) will unfortunately (or awesomely) just randomly select a voltage at times. So... if you have 1 oscillator set up and you REALLY are looking for stability (the pitch not varying over time) grounding the inputs will help that - wont cure it, but will cut it down. My clock 40106 has all but 4 pins used (1 and 2 for the clock generation, and 7 to ground, 14 to v+) Since it's just a clock and since THIS is a noise machine - I didn't mind a little extra unexpected whackiness. The tempo rate of the clock rarely fluctuates when I don't mean it to but some times it does. Other cmos chips that have inputs will want to be tied to something if not using them... for example a 4011. It takes 2 inputs and gives you a gated output based on the incoming high/low signals. If you don't tie the unused inputs to ground then sometimes they can go high and gate your signal in an unintended manner. Word on the street is you want to connect all inputs to a 100k resistor to ground so when ever there isnt a signal coming in it will hit ground but the 100k resistor is weak enough to allow for all incoming signals to hit the pin successfully and work with the gate.
also save all your unused component leads as it makes tying inputs to ground on a proto/perf board really simple and can save you some wire. (Once you clip the lead on a resistor after it's been soldered to a board, that metal bit can make a great conductor and you can slap several in place to quickly ground all you unused pins.)
Voltage starving a 40106 is the cream of noise creation.. cool box! Mr. Lunetta would be proud.
"...cuz I was drinking and was like-LET'S START BUILDING!" LOL
Cal this is amazing you are in your element right now!
This REALLY does look like fun. Hours of craziness !! I love it. Very creative use of classic CMOS logic chips.
I really like the layout of the case. Interesting stuff it's giving me ideas.
Sound demo at 13:08.
HEY?! That’s really cool, to build switch sharing in mind as a part of the building plan. As I have progressed in many disciplines such as mechanical design or carpentry, electronics, and music theory since my synth diy efforts began about 6 years ago, it had occurred to me early on that without at least someone to sort of listen to me talk about the aspects that I am excited about and understand me and sort of share my excitement with me while I talk about the stuff, well then that makes my efforts basically worthless. It’s very true that I had overlooked that desire in me to share, and I failed in my foresight by not making that aspect part of my original plan before I dove into this synth electronics hobby. Now, with the pandemic business, I only see what we’re few possible opportunities to share are now even fewer still. I’m working on getting a couple cameras operational and a computer as my laptop’s monitor is shattered presently. I own many of these electronics trainer toys called LittleBits, and so I really wanted to start a YT channel so that I could have a sort of LittleBits sound focused channel. Time will tell how committed I’ll be, but I really have desire so maybe just by writing about it here it might light a flame beneath my tail and serve to inspire. Your video is inspirational, so THANK YOU for sharing your creations!! (I love the alternating color green/amber inverted LED chaser!)
Couple of LPGs and S&Hs and this would be a dream machine ...of course you could scale it down to make it more portable
This. Is. Amazing.
Very nice! I've been working on a similar idea using a small flight case, but haven't come half as far as you yet. This has given me a bunch of inspiration. I'm not too sure about how to connect various circuits together, but there's abunch of ideas in this which I think will help me.
I noticed the quick subliminal frames in the video towards the end as well!
Hey there! You just helped me out on reddit and linked your video. I just love this project. Nice design! Let’s see what other stuff u have made 🤙🤙🤙
This is f'in cool dude
Never too many patch points, for me!
Hi , amazing machine !! I was wondering if you could help me , im building something similar to the first part of your circuit (4017 seq , to 40106 oscilator ) and im not really shure how to conect the outputs of the 4017 to the 40106 im only getting 1 note . Help would be very much appreciated , THANKS!!
Can you share the full schematic for us please?
Dang - not really possible. i just kinda winged it.
Hey you are using the cd40106 Schmitt trigger right. I have been messing around with them too. I heard that you need to tie unused inputs to ground if you are only using a few of the oscillators do you know anything about that? It has something too do with them being CMOS chips.
I am using a 40106 - such a cool chip. (It can do more than just create oscillators, it can also invert signals from high to low and vise versa)
TBH, that's mostly a best practice thing - the unused gates when left hanging (connected to nothing) will unfortunately (or awesomely) just randomly select a voltage at times. So... if you have 1 oscillator set up and you REALLY are looking for stability (the pitch not varying over time) grounding the inputs will help that - wont cure it, but will cut it down. My clock 40106 has all but 4 pins used (1 and 2 for the clock generation, and 7 to ground, 14 to v+) Since it's just a clock and since THIS is a noise machine - I didn't mind a little extra unexpected whackiness. The tempo rate of the clock rarely fluctuates when I don't mean it to but some times it does.
Other cmos chips that have inputs will want to be tied to something if not using them... for example a 4011. It takes 2 inputs and gives you a gated output based on the incoming high/low signals. If you don't tie the unused inputs to ground then sometimes they can go high and gate your signal in an unintended manner. Word on the street is you want to connect all inputs to a 100k resistor to ground so when ever there isnt a signal coming in it will hit ground but the 100k resistor is weak enough to allow for all incoming signals to hit the pin successfully and work with the gate.
also save all your unused component leads as it makes tying inputs to ground on a proto/perf board really simple and can save you some wire. (Once you clip the lead on a resistor after it's been soldered to a board, that metal bit can make a great conductor and you can slap several in place to quickly ground all you unused pins.)
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