A unique blog about game design and development, by a 40yo professional game sculptor.

I've just finished the sound box I'm building for a friend.  It's the second one I've built, but his version was much more ambitious.

I found the schematic at MusicFromOuterSpace.com .

Building this electronics project was really validating, for me.  I remember playing with electronics when I was a teenager, trying to get things working, shrugging off Ohm's Law like so much schoolwork.  I'm glad I can still solder, read a resistor, and use a VOM.

I'd like to build another one, with a built-in drum machine, but I can't seem to find any one-chip solutions for the drums.  They USED to have such chips, but said chips are all old and out-of-stock.  I guess the new hotness is to embed a microcontroller, and write the drum machine in software.  I'm not quite ready to pursue that, though.