The electronics are complete and I’m finalizing the case construction and control panel layout. Hope to have it making noise within a week. It’s been on hold waiting for components to arrive so I’m looking forward to getting this one playable ASAP.  Check back soon.

Finally getting around to wrapping this up.  A four oscillator noise machine controlled with a joystick.  I had bigger plans for this one, but the control panel is getting out of hand. Looking forward to wrapping it up.  Details to come…

Spent a couple hours on the boxes for some of my latest projects.  Lots of sawdust in my eyes and lungs at the moment.

Here is the rough panel layout for the Stepped Tone Generator.

Drilled some holes on the top for the lamp, the photo-resistor, and the speaker.

Several projects are well under way and I spent some time case building this weekend.  I realized that most of my projects actually start out by visualizing how the completed piece or gear will look.  I then sketch this out and make sure that I order the necessary hardware for the cases.  Often times while building the circuit the controls and layout will change, but I try to stick to the original sketch as much as possible.

I’m trying a couple different case configurations to match my original concept sketches.  Here you can see the Stepped Tone Generator (aka - Atari Punk Console) original sketch and then beginning case build.

Next steps are to sand and finish the wood, Cut, bend and drill the control panel. Then print and attach the lables.  Going to try to accompnish all the this week so I can assemble and complete next weekend.

Here’s a quick video of the completed Photo Trans-Actovator.  As you can see this thing is highly sensitive to light.  In the demo I’m using my hands to shadow the photo sensors and also turning on and off ambient light will have a drastic effect.  enjoy.