ATARI STEAMPUNK CONSOLE

[DontPutSpiceonRice]

How does it work?

[PokerChingling]

It is kind of like an early theremin... :D COOL!!

[xLabyrinth]

I'd die a happy man if I owned one of those! :]

[gurlinos]

wow, that isn't annoying at all xD

[FrancescoTEscobar]

dude, this is really, REALLY cool. I want one.

[pls24]

0:56 Jimi Hendrix for sure man haha

[Tsukasa298]

wicked cool

[drmoonstien]

that is a beautifull piece

[Ametore]

i agree with cloveIrar

[clovelrar]

Wow, That is completly annoying and awesome at the same time.

[mrfuriouser]

Your comment is the best.  Thought you should know I laughed my a@@ off!

[teamhowdy]

where did you find schematics for a vox repeat percussion?

[meepage332]

Fantastic, 5 stars! It's pant-wettingly awesome.

[TBman256]

so, it's a steampunk theramin?

[ikfb661]

That's pretty cool...

[Lachlant1984]

It sounds a bit like an electric guitar effects processor that has been Circuit Bent.

[voldovsfaust]

strange but cool.

some sounds are like TRON movie XD

[marshmelow]

theremin

[SonofCastille]

no, but I have a good friend that has all the old original ones with the theremin tube schematics! a little high voltage for me, as i stick to 18 volts and below!(IE batteries!)

[freakylaurent]

Ah yes the Theremin effects !

By chance u read popular electronics back then ?

I mean older ones !

:D

[Kribby2k6]

only kidding, I guess you have to be into and understand this to appreciate it :D

[3rdKingPleasureville]

f ' n' rad.

[SonofCastille]

Thanks!

[KOleH]

when this vid started to play, my cat started to run around the room. she was chasing noise. LOL.

[SonofCastille]

Well, I have a black cat(Blackie) and after some  time, he has gotten quite used to the sounds of the bleeps and blaps around the house!

[blicblak]

Awesome! Vote 5! oh wait, that's Newgrounds...

[jgourd]

Uhm, wouldn't theremin be a better term than Atari console?

[SonofCastille]

The circuit is the 555 stable/monostable circuit cooked up by Forrest Mimes many years ago. I modified the schematic to include opto-resistors. It has "theremin-edque" qualities, but most purist would say it must have a pitch and volume antenna control to qualify. Atari punk Console is just a term thrown about for Dr.Mimes original circuit.

[steamcastle]

but isn't that then what's called a opto-theremin ?

[carpeteria]

absolutely gorgeous - very well done. you have my utmost envy.

[SonofCastille]

Thanks. I saw a lot of old Victorian era brass scientific instruments at the university museum at Oxford and drew my inspiration from them.

[theogore]

Gawd. This thing is gorgeous.

Oh, to have one of my own...