12-29, 18:00–21:00 (Europe/Berlin), Scubar
Learn to solder. Anyone can learn!
It's useful. It's fun!
We will learn by soldering together
a cool, powerful music synthesizer,
and learn how to make music, sound, and noise
using a computer chip!
For total beginners.
(no materials required -- but kits are available for 30€ and programming cables for 6€)
Short Description
<img src="https://events.ccc.de/congress/2019/wiki/images/5/5a/ArduTouchWorkshopEMF.jpg" alt="ArduTouch Music Synthesizer soldering Workshop at EMF Camp 2018" width="500" hspace="10" style="float:right;width:350px;>
<a href="https://cornfieldelectronics.com/cfe/projects.php#ardutouch" target="_blank">Summary
- Learn to solder by making an ArduTouch music synthesizer from a kit.
- Learn an overview of Digital Signal Processing (for total beginners!) so you know how to make music, sound, and noise from computer chips.
If you choose to do the optional hands-on portion of this workshop, I guarantee your music synthesizer will work after you solder it (during the workshop, or later, at home) -- and you will have a real performing musical instrument.
ArduTouch music synthesizer project
The ArduTouch is an entirely open hardware project. It is an Arduino-compatible project with a touch keyboard, and with a built-in speaker/amp.
It comes pre-programmed with a really nice music synthesizer (a 4-voice sawtooth waveform generator) -- called "Thick" -- that makes super phat sounds.
An ArduTouch Arduino library is available for programming in more super nice synthesizers, with lots and lots of features. The library also comes with many way cool example synthesizer sketches that also serve as a tutorial for making your own ArduTouch synthesizers (which are Arduino sketches).
ArduTouch currently has 10 totally different synthesizers available. Synth sounds include way beautiful to metal to noise to drones, a drum-bass-machine-sequencer, spacey, psychedelic, harsh, industrial, . . .
In the last part of this workshop I will show you how to re-program the ArduTouch synthesizer.
For those who want to learn more, the documentation teaches the basics of Digital Signal Processing for creating audio on microcontrollers.
Workshop Itinerary
- Intro to music synthesizers
- Brief demo of ArduTouch kits in action
- Basics of how ArduTouch music synthesizers work -- Digital Signal Processing for total beginners!
- Learn how to solder (with the ArduTouch kit as an example)
- How to program the ArduTouch to make more cool music, sounds, and noise!
Taught by Mitch Altman, who has taught tens of thousands of people to solder.
OPTIONAL:
To do the hands-on portion of this workshop you will need:
- ArduTouch music syntheesizer kit -- available at the workshop for 30 €
- (NOT REQUIRED, but available: USB-Serial Cable for 6 €)
Links:
ArduTouch project on Cornfield Electronic's website:
https://cornfieldelectronics.com/cfe/projects.php#ardutouch
ArduTouch Github page:
https://github.com/maltman23/ArduTouch
One of the 10 demo videos for ArduTouch:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77Z3uCmT7yM
