Tick-Tock Time to get your Groove On

cstanton over 2 years ago

I've been playing a bunch of rhythm games recently, and I feel like I need a metronome to keep time with the beat.

What're your plans and thoughts for entering this competition?

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milosrasic98 over 2 years ago in reply to robogary +5

This made me go search around the house so I can find the one I got as a birthday present from my parents when I was in elementary school. I just loved going through all of the projects, I was so thrilled…
Jan Cumps over 2 years ago +3

Most of the Science Fair x-in-One kits had a metronome project. source: a copy of my manual on the internet. Fair use as example They also had a little kit. It was always the same simple-yet-educational…
rsjawale24 over 2 years ago in reply to Jan Cumps +3

That's a nice kit. I remember the old days when I used to buy DIY kits and solder them myselfs. Never worked in first try but just buying the kits, soldering them and getting them to work had another level…

0 milosrasic98 over 2 years ago

I was thinking of maybe making a Tesla Coil speaker or some kind of a cool clock combining electronics with some intricate mechanism.
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0 robogary over 2 years ago

A couple "WrongCo" style musical gadgets come to mind, but a clock doesn't really fit naturally with a musical instrument/gadget project. Maybe have to consider the clock part application figuratively.
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0 Jan Cumps over 2 years ago

Most of the Science Fair x-in-One kits had a metronome project.

source: a copy of my manual on the internet. Fair use as example

They also had a little kit. It was always the same simple-yet-educational circuit.

source: google image. Fair use as example

My brother and I saved every penny for years to buy this one:

source: www.rcgrabbag.com/.../
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0 rsjawale24 over 2 years ago in reply to Jan Cumps

That's a nice kit. I remember the old days when I used to buy DIY kits and solder them myselfs. Never worked in first try but just buying the kits, soldering them and getting them to work had another level of excitement and fun
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0 dougw over 2 years ago

I've been on a journey to dive deeper into music instrumentation, starting with some retro sound synthesizer chips. I am now progressing to much more capable music synthesizers from this century.
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0 robogary over 2 years ago in reply to dougw

For this project, I first went down a rabbit hole looking for the PN of a monster size IC from the late 70s that was supposedly used for sound effects. Not finding that PN, my conclusion lines up with your reply, why mess with ancient stuff, should be forward looking.
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0 beacon_dave over 2 years ago in reply to robogary

The TI SN76477 was used for sound effects in 70's arcade games. 28-pin DIP.
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0 robogary over 2 years ago in reply to Jan Cumps

Have the 1976 and 1994 versions
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0 robogary over 2 years ago in reply to beacon_dave

Thank you ! That looks to be what I thinking of.
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0 genebren over 2 years ago

I am thinking of designing a MIDI interface to a polyphonic synthesizer, based on a voice module that can be added in multiples. The idea is to build a voice module containing: programmable oscillator (digital - fulfilling the Tick-Tock part), envelope generator (ADSR - Attack, Decay, Sustain, Release - digital/analog), programmable filter (Lowpass, Bandpass or Highpass - digital/analog).

Now all I need to time enough to do this. I have started my design and then I had some orders placed that will be eating up a lot of my time (along with a bunch of cleanup projects due to weather damage).
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