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Part IV: Building
Chapter 18: World’s Simplest Oscillator -- 64
Six oscillators on a 20 cent chip, guaranteed to work.
Chapter 19: From Breadboard to Circuit Board -- 72
How to solder up your first homemade circuit.
Chapter 20: More Oscillators -- 75
Oscillators that modulate each other.
Chapter 21: Even More Oscillators -- 79
Dividers, feedback loops and instability; using oscillators as clocks for
toys.
Chapter 22: On/Off -- 83
Gating, ducking, tremolo and panning -- and extracting sounds from
remote controls.
Chapter 23: Amplification and Distortion -- 91
A simple circuit that goes from clean preamp to total distortion.
Chapter 24: Analog to Digital Conversion, Sort of -- 94
Modulating other audio sources with your oscillators.
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Part V: Looking
Chapter 25: Video Music/Music Video -- 98
Translating video signals into sound, and hacking cheap camera circuits.
Chapter 26: LCD Art -- 100
Making animated modern daguerreotypes.
Part VI: Finishing
Chapter 27: Mixers, Matrices and Processing -- 104
Very simple, very cheap, very clean mixers, and ways of configuring lots
of circuits.
Chapter 28: A Little Power Amplifier -- 108
Cheap & simple amplifier.
Chapter 29: Power Supplies -- 110
If you must, here’s how to plug into the wall with minimal risk.
Appendices
Appendix 1: Resources -- 116
Where to find information and materials.
Appendix 2: Inventory -- 118
What you need to do the projects in this book.
Appendix 3: The Rules of Hacking -- 122
A recapitulation.