Analog Stylophone
posted Sep 23rd 2010 1:00pm by Mike Szczysfiled under: musical hacks
[Doug Jackson] just finished building an analog Stylophone. We’ve seen this instrument a few times before, most recently with an Arduino-based controller, but this one makes use of 555-timer, resistors, and potentiometers to generate the waveform for each note. If you’ve got the copper-clad and the means to etch the board everything else should be pretty easy to come by. We did note that since this is a single-sided board you’ll be soldering on the same side as the components, which can get a bit hairy but manageable. We just wish that [Doug] has posted a demonstration video so we could hear what this sounds like. But it can’t be too much different from that electronic vuvuzela that used a 555 timer as well.
Unlike the vuvuzela that just exist to make an annoying noise. you could play a tune with this stylophone How well this would sound is the question, where not talking Yamaha keyboard here.