Comments on: False theremin

By: Joan Durall Aulet

Joan Durall Aulet — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:25:15 +0000

Hey you all! I’m not on this business but I’m the tin and the liquorice (product inside) producer. It’s amazing how people can create things.
Congratulations to the “theremin” producer I love it.
Now I can tell my clients a second use for the tin

By: carmelich

carmelich — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:35:41 +0000

I love it! Good job!

By: vilxes91

vilxes91 — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 21:57:09 +0000

Hey, thanks everyone for the comments!!
I knew that this wasn’t a theremin, but it is something similar, I mean, you can modulate sound by approaching your hand.
I’d love to make a real theremin, and I’m looking up for information (I think there are kits at Make)
About circuit bending, I have to explore it. I’ve saw some modifications over a little keyboard I have, and I’ll try to open it and “touch” some terminals.
So that’s all, thanks to all the hackers and makers, your comments will persuade me to continue with this hobby between exam and exam. Next project: “Pic Pong” (Yeah, the old, old game) and tetris over a pic16f84, a simon game, and finishing my Arduino.
Greetings from Spain!

By: drsco

drsco — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 18:14:55 +0000

tannerin is a more appropriate name. i discovered the other day that the famous sound on good vibrations was actually a tannerin and not a theremin as i’d always heard.

By: basecamp

basecamp — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 16:46:16 +0000

it’s like a robot clam. awesome. :)

By: stunmonkey

stunmonkey — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 14:02:13 +0000

Thermite is also great fun, and makes truly unique noises as well.
It is not, however, usually advisable to try and control the behavior of thermite with ones hands…

By: dustin

dustin — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 06:27:58 +0000

I read the headline and thought it was a bomb of some sort.. i got theramin confused with theramite http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermite

By: rob

rob — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 04:05:27 +0000

this is not a hack!”

By: stunmonkey

stunmonkey — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 01:42:49 +0000

Hey, at least they are beginning to make the distinctions that they are >false< Theremins, and that’s a step in the right direction. Makes me happy.

Someone really needs to come up with a name for the plethora of these kind of devices, as they really are their own distinct category and really can’t be accurately lumped in with any other instrument class.

There kind of projects are actually cool, if useless, the only thing about the articles that bugged me was conflating them with actual Theremins.

By: hum4n

hum4n — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 00:28:26 +0000

Shes a Maaa(BBZZKKRT)niac Maaaa(BRRRRNZZZZZKRT)niac On th(bbrrennerttzztt)e floo(fbintueieeezzzzzzzzzzzrt)r.

Brings tears to my eyes.

By: therian

therian — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 00:03:55 +0000

this is not a theremin not even remind of theremin. This is buzzer just a buzzer. In a first place theremin is analog device and if you try to emulate it using microcontroller at least use something more sophisticated than a pulses, com on put at least capacitor filter to quit down annotating square noise

By: Reezy

Reezy — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 21:44:47 +0000

If you like that, you should poke around in a speak n spell, or voice modulator megaphone. Circuit Bending is amazing

By: djrussell

djrussell — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 21:21:58 +0000

it’s like a robot clam. awesome. :)

By: cynic

cynic — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 20:40:41 +0000

@attrezzo
It’s hardly a recent obsession, just one of those things that goes around in cycles

By: cynic

cynic — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 20:37:59 +0000

@epicelite
Google’s hard, right? Your name is wholly inaccurate.

Sounds more like a kazoo, something that’s been missing an electronic counterpart for far too long.
555 timer circuits are fun to mess around with, stick another 555 on there, or redesign with a 556, add another LDR and it’d be one step closer to theremin-hood.