07 May 2009

The TIME BOMB !!


Inspired by this guy, I decided to make an analog handheld noisemaker based on thousands of tiny grains hitting a microphone element. Nothing too special here, just an amplifier and an LED-blinker. The circuit is triggered by two tilt-switches that activate when the device is upright.

I stained and carved out a wooden craft box to fit my nefarious design, and carefully superglued two piezo pickups and red LEDs into a 30-second game timer I got from the Dungeons and Dragons Store!!!

Getting everything to fit was absolutely the hardest part. That strip of electrical tape across the speaker is a gimmick to reduce most of the feedback. The only way to really kill ALL that close-proximity feedback is... video editing. So it's sort of a challenging piece. Maybe a game! There's a narrow angle where it won't shriek at you.

4 comments:

Quel said...

can you install flippers on my doberman please

suddenlyshida said...

mawwwwwwm, zippy stole all the smart!

Dan B said...

Quel's 'doberman' is really just a pigeon with the wings cut off, duct-taped to a rat. FYI.

Dreya said...

boardgame party + timebomb = tons o'fun. i want. kthxbye.