• It'sa me, Power Supply! (Part 3) - A PSU that Plays MIDI?

    I'll be the first to admit ... perhaps this music from a power supply thing has gotten a little out-of-hand. First, I played a poor rendition of the Mario theme . It was a proof-of-concept, not really intended to go anywhere but perhaps to bring a smile…
  • It'sa me, Power Supply! - Making Music with a PSU? Redux!

    Since I posted my first version of making music with a power supply , it seems there has been some interest in the topic. Unfortunately, not all of it necessarily that positive. I understand ... art is a little bit like that ... sometimes it's hard to…
  • It'sa me, Power Supply! - Making Music with a PSU?

    My holiday may be looming, but actually, after seeing the relatively positive response to my last quick project which looked at abusing a Rohde & Schwarz RTM3004’s arbitrary waveform generation features to produce audio , I thought it might be a good…
  • It’sa me, Oscilloscope! - Making Music with a 'scope?

    Even though I’m about to leave on a month-long holiday, I decided to spend a little time to put together a short project for element14’s Project 14 Acoustics Challenge. I was inspired by a Christmas video where someone used an oscilloscope’s arbitrary…
  • The Pi Rotary

    After moving and lighting stuff for months, I moved to some, hopefully nice, acoustic/audio project. In this context, the project I am presenting, as well as the next projects I have in mind, are more acoustic projects than pure audio builds. This…
  • Screaming LM386:  An Audio Amplifier with PCB Art

    This is the final post in a three part series on how to create an audio amplifier using the classic TI LM386 which has been further adorned with PCB art. The method for transferring art work to a PCB was described in the first post. The LM386 amplifier…