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Summary of Contents for Technology Will Save Us DIY Synth
- Page 1 Synth Kit - Manual...
- Page 2 We hope you enjoy this creative your own electronic Synth. task, learn some new technological All the equipment you’ll need to make skills and apply them to your life in your synth is your DIY Synth kit and of useful ways. course your fingers.
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Page 3: Getting Started
Learn about their use within the circuit you are building. Further Resources Information on how the circuit works alongside different ways to extend your Synth can be found on our resource page: twsu.co/synth DIY Synth - Manual... - Page 4 8) 1x NE556 Timer IC (Integrated Circuit) 9) 1x 10uf Electrolytic Capacitor (Cylindrical and Black) 10) 2x 10nf Ceramic Capacitor Check your components to make sure you have all the parts to build your DIY Synth! DIY Synth - Manual Components...
- Page 5 Technology Will Save Us Top Tip Some components may look slightly different to the ones above, don’t be alarmed, this is normal! DIY Synth - Manual...
- Page 6 The power rails are connected all the way along the edges of the breadboard. However the inside rails on the breadboard run perpendicular to those on the outside. These are marked in orange. DIY Synth - Manual Step 1...
- Page 7 For this kit we have colour coded the wires for you. But as a general rule, red wires are positive and black are negative. Sticking to this will help you when building your own creations. Step 1 DIY Synth - Manual...
- Page 8 Place the chip over the gutter of the breadboard with the notch facing to the left. Placing the chip near the centre gives you room to space out the other components around the board. DIY Synth - Manual Step 2...
- Page 9 Pins 4, 10 and 14 to the positive red rail. Top Tip Refer back to step 2.0 for the numbering of the IC Chip pins. Use the small black wire to connect Pin 7 to the blue ground rail. Step 2 DIY Synth - Manual...
- Page 10 These stripes tell us what value the resistor is. Brown, Black, Red = 1K Ohm. Now add the 1K resistor across pins 1 and 6 of the IC chip. DIY Synth - Manual Step 3...
- Page 11 IC chip pins together: Pin 2 to 6 Pin 5 to 8 Use the small silver wire to connect the following IC chip pins together: Pin 12 to 13 Step 4 DIY Synth - Manual...
- Page 12 The first from the bottom ground rail (blue) to pin 2 of the IC chip. The second from the top ground rail (also blue) to pin 12 of the IC chip. DIY Synth - Manual Step 5...
- Page 13 Add the two red wires on the left hand side of the breadboard. These will be connected from the positive voltage rail (red) to the left pins of the two 470K potentiometers in the next step. Step 5 DIY Synth - Manual...
- Page 14 (Their resistance is marked on the back of the casing) Make sure that the red wires from the previous step connect to their left pin and the blue wires to their middle ‘wiper’ pins. DIY Synth - Manual Step 6...
- Page 15 In order to give space for the final potentiometer to be attached. Top Tip This capacitor has two different length legs. That means its polarized, and has to be connected in a specific way! Step 7 DIY Synth - Manual...
- Page 16 Align it with the shaft pointing away from the chip. The left leg should be in line (vertically) with the short leg of the capacitor from the previous step. DIY Synth - Manual Step 8...
- Page 17 Speaker Take your Speaker which is pictured on the right. One wire of the speaker wires goes to the ground rail, the other to the wiper (middle leg) of the volume (4.7K) potentiometer. Step 9 DIY Synth - Manual...
- Page 18 Connect the black wire of the battery clip to the ground rail and red wire to the positive rail. Add your battery and your done! Now your ready to create some musical madness! DIY Synth - Manual Step 10...
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Page 19: Circuit Check
Circuit Check Circuit Check DIY Synth - Manual... - Page 20 Then orchestra. customise with stickers, Sharpies or paint. When you are happy with your creation all that is left to do is create sweet sweet music. DIY Synth - Manual...
- Page 21 (potentiometers) so acrylic lid. But you could make it out of you can actually play it! almost anything... Aside from that, go wild! We want to see some crazy creations! DIY Synth - Manual...
- Page 22 Silicon. The chip in this cir- cuit is a 555 timer chip one of the commonly used chips in the world made up of 25 transistors, 2 diodes and 15 resistors. DIY Synth - Manual Components...
- Page 23 This makes it perfect for playing and prototyping your projects. Components DIY Synth - Manual...
- Page 24 Thank You! Technology Will Save Us exists to educate and inspire people to make, tinker and experiment creatively with technology as a way of unleashing new possibilities. Devices, gadgets and computers are all a part of our everyday life and yet most people know so little about what these things are made of, let alone how to fix them or create new uses for them.
- Page 25 Contact Interested in more classes? Have an idea for a workshop we should teach? Do you want to teach a class yourself? We’d love to hear from you. Contact us by email or find out more on our website. info@technologywillsaveus.org www.technologywillsaveus.org @techwillsaveus...
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