Comments on: How-To: Hack a ThingamaKIT

By: nick!

nick! — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 02:35:12 +0000

That is sick! Can you put an input jack in it so you can run it through delay or distortion or something?

By: Pascal

Pascal — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 17:39:52 +0000

Hi,

I’m waiting for my Thingamakit and have some questions… Can I leave the standard waveshape selector and install the sine and spike wave switches through on-off buttons? If I do so, which waveforms are replaced when I activate them?

By: Nathan

Nathan — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 12:24:37 +0000

I bought a thingamakit recently as a present for a friend and I am currently in the process of moddifying it by adding the sine wave switch and spikewave switch.

I’m afraid I think your pictures are misleading in that the picture for where you have soldered the sine wave switch differs from where it is in your picture for the spike wave.

In the first picture the wires are soldered to what appears to be pins 3 and 4 but then in the second picture they jump to pins 13 and 14.

I assume the second picture is correct and the circuit works with both mods working properly??

By: Ethan

Ethan — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 10:14:13 +0000

What happened to the images? They all 404 now.

By: Toastalicious

Toastalicious — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 03:16:48 +0000

#10, you seem to be missing the point, what if we wanna control it via a midi input, rather than adding a midi output?

By: pip

pip — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 08:25:35 +0000

OK, I think you guys are missing something here.. the kit contains a speaker right? Just rewire the speaker to a stereo/mono port… no?

By: Toastalicious

Toastalicious — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 06:07:51 +0000

#3 here
It’s a shame it doesn’t have a midi output. This is exactly what I needed, cause I wanted an analog synth, but I lack the smarts to build my own from scratch.

By: Dr. Bleep

Dr. Bleep — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 22:44:54 +0000

I'm glad ya'll like it!

Midi would be tough since the main oscillator is controlled by a RC circuit, not an external variable. But you could switch out the photocell for a bank of pots and try to connect them to a MIDIFY.

By: terry

terry — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 21:18:41 +0000

i have one it is way too cool !!!!

By: James

James — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 18:26:46 +0000

get thee some liquid flux and reflow those solder joints. there is bound to be a fairly cold solder joint there somewhere that will manifest itself sooner or later.

By: fartface

fartface — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 15:57:41 +0000

wow makes me want to black out my eyesockets, get my “the used” t-shirts out and paint my fingernails black and joint the EMo crowd once again.

I’m so misunderstood…

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By: pip

pip — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 05:00:46 +0000

AWESOME!

@3: I was just about to ask the same thing!! that would be even more AWESOME.

By: Toastalicious

Toastalicious — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 04:44:23 +0000

Is it possible to add a midi input/output? I wanna connect my keyboard to it. :D

By: rectilinear

rectilinear — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 03:09:23 +0000

I’m excited to see so many musical hacks lately. I think it ought to be a subcategory on the site. There’s a lot of people doing a lot of very interesting and bizarre things with music and tech out there. More, please!

By: sam

sam — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 03:00:52 +0000

seriously i want one so bad! whenever i do get one i am so trying these :)