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Hacked Fetal Detector Music Synthesizer -- Episode 375

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Fleamarkets can hold a lot of junk but also treasures, Clem bought a 70's medical device which was used to examine the heartbeat of unborn children and hacks it into a retro style synthesizer.you can use your own heartbeat or even that of any person(born yet or not) to alter the sound of the device. It features a 10 Stage Sequencer and 5 different filters to create various sounds and rhythms.

 

Bill of Material:

 

Product Name Quantity
Buy Kit

555 Timer IC DIP8

3 Buy Now

SPDT switch 5A Panelmount

20 Buy Now
10 Turn Potentiometer 5kOhm 1 Buy Now

Decade counter/Divider IC

1 Buy Now

Knob Round 6mm / 50mmm with position marker

1 Buy Now

Quad Amplifier IC

1 Buy Now

Ansmann NIMH AA 1,3Ah 4-Pack

2 Buy Now

Resistor 10kOhm

10 Buy Now

Resistor 33kOhm

10 Buy Now

Electrolytic Capacitor 10uF

2 Buy Now

Electrolytic Capacitor 100uF

2 Buy Now

 

Additional Parts:

 

Product Name Quantity

Fetal Detector from the Fleamarket, or get a new one for cheap on the internet.

1

Order a wild selection of Caps and resistors to experiment around until you get the desired sound.

1

Differently colored wire to keep track of all the connections.

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  • mayermakes
    mayermakes over 6 years ago in reply to beacon_dave +2
    I actually made something similar to that a while back: : www.youtube.com/watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcfS_xI3Pdk it uses 2 555 timers and a FLed as a crude form of a 2 step sequencer, you can…
  • mayermakes
    mayermakes over 6 years ago +1
    Some facts were left onm the cutting floor: this is a fetal detector--> it operates with doppler radar not ultrasound ultrasonic devices were introduced for this purpose much later. the Filters are Simple…
  • beacon_dave
    beacon_dave over 6 years ago +1
    For some more fun with synths then I recall that there was an article in this month's HackSpace magazine (issue number 14), which may be of interest to some community members: https://hackspace.raspberrypi…
  • mayermakes
    mayermakes over 5 years ago in reply to jimlberto

    I wish I could just post them or give asingel link, but I made up the circuit as I built it and changed a lot over the course of the project but here arethe circuits i took as a starting point, I doubt you migrth get a hand at the same Fetal detector but maybe some different piece of old tech to utilize so these links should help you:

     

    https://lmgtfy.com/?q=Atari+Punk+console+circuit&s=g

     

    Basic sound generator I used 2 of these to get a high and a low note,( the low is nearly unhearable in the video)
    the Pitch pot is connected to the main big poti i built into the machine

    https://lmgtfy.com/?q=Baby+step+sequencer&s=g

     

    The sequenzer part is based on this circuit , I only added LEDs and connected inputs and outputs to the other sections of the machine

    https://lmgtfy.com/?q=Low+pass+filter+rc&s=g

     

    The FIlters are just Low Pass R/C filters(a cap and a resistor) in random values, trial and error showed me some that sounded interesting.
    the Fetal signal gets mixed into the added electronics just before the Sequenzer stage. the sequenzers signal is fed back into the sound generators when the "Feed" switch is activated.

    Hope  this info helps you in building your own noise machine!

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    jimlberto over 5 years ago

    hi, is there a way to see the actual schematics of this project? 555 to 4017 to 324 plus resistors switches and wires, is not quite specific, you know?
    maybe you can point to a link where I can set the pieces together without making a mistake? perhaps?

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  • aptbartmess
    aptbartmess over 6 years ago in reply to mayermakes

    Cute!

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    mayermakes over 6 years ago in reply to beacon_dave

    I actually made something similar to that a while back:

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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcfS_xI3Pdk

    it uses 2 555 timers and a FLed as a crude form of a 2 step sequencer, you can alter speed and pitch with covering the photoresistors and the fled, modulate with covering the speaker and activate the sound with the pushbutton

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  • beacon_dave
    beacon_dave over 6 years ago in reply to mayermakes

    How about something like this 'playWATCH' synth:

     

    https://www.hackster.io/janost/the-playwatch-61db7b

     

    but incorporating an IR photoplethysmography pulse sensor into the design to trigger it from heartbeats ?

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  • mayermakes
    mayermakes over 6 years ago in reply to aptbartmess

    thanks. I try my best.

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    aptbartmess over 6 years ago in reply to mayermakes

    Excellent! You're an engaging host with a knack for explaining things.

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    mayermakes over 6 years ago in reply to aptbartmess

    Thank you! Well if you insist I'll think about some future projects with experimental instruments, maybe something with MIDI or homemade guitar effects.

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  • aptbartmess
    aptbartmess over 6 years ago

    What a super project! I'd love to see more of your experiments with sound making instruments.

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    mayermakes over 6 years ago in reply to beacon_dave

    thanks I got to take a look at that!

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