[Jan Cumpelik] squeezes a lot of performance out of very few components with his breadboard sequencer which he calls Lunchbeat. We really like his awesome breadboard which has a series of trenches perpendicular to the bus strips framing the long sides. All of our breadboards have just one trench down the middle. This, combined with his mad breadboard skills, results in a really clean prototype.
The chip nearest his hand is the ATmega328 which drives the sequencer. It takes inputs from that row of 10k trimpots as well as a series of tactile switches. Feedback is given with the row of eight LEDs. Those are driven from a 595 shift register to save pins on the microcontroller. The remaining chip is an OpAmp which works in conjunction with a 3-bit R2R ladder DAC to output audio. Turn your speakers down just a bit before taking in the demonstration below. There you will also find an image version of his schematic that we made for your convenience. It is only available as a PDF in the code repository he posted.
This reminds me of my old Apple ][‘s sound, very nice
Looks good. Sounds good. Now we just have to sit back and wait to see who can be critical about what.
Bah! The comments to this article are useless. I made cheerful positive comments like these years ago. They were better implemented to.
Well, nice constructive criticism is not a crime, contrary, it pushes forward :)
Awesome! I’ve been looking for something just like this
And now it has found you :)
I like the sound as well. And, that breadboard layout with the “vertical” trenches reminds me of the one in the middle of my RadioShack 300-in-one that I use mostly for the breadboard. Only real difference is the 300-in-one has just one bus at the bottom that is tied to the bat-, and the extreme top row, instead of a solid bus, is a tap from the internal 6 AA pack. (Mine has a tap on each cell, I’ve seen some versions of it that skip the 1.5v tap)
I love my RS breadboard trainer, but I want to add a power supply that can work from an AC adapter. Ever seen anyone do that?
what about some variation of the Breadboard Friend? http://mutable-instruments.net/bbf
pretty cool
If you want that trench style, pick up some of the mini-breadboards from Sparkfun. They interlock that way IIRC, and you should be able to stick some rails above and below.
hi there :)
breadboard is Wisher brand.
http://www.wishmaker.com.tw/cubecat/front/bin/home.phtml
Really cool, awesome breadboard!
Thanks for posting something useful and helpful for those of us with similar projects. After reading this I’m digging out the soundboard I built ages ago for some tweaks from this design.
I’m always glad to see another project that isn’t connected to an Arduino..