The traditional approach is you give noisemaking toys to your niblings, not your own children.
Show HN: I built a synth for my daughter
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#62is it feasible to built one with a PCB? just straight to the UNO like your initial prototype - did that work ok?
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#63This is absolutely FANTASTIC, and I am humbled by your mad skillz!
My son and I are also fascinated by the sweet, sweet synth sound, but as I have no discernible talent, we went this route:
https://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/Nts1Mk2--korg-nutekt...
Which, unfortunately, has a HUGE learning curve in terms of operation.
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#64This is great. I did a similar thing when my kids were young (revived an old, dead Kawai synth with a Raspberry Pi and sound fonts), but doing it with semi-discrete circuits seems a lot more fun.
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#65Great work! This brings back memories of futzing with knobs on a boombox as a kid. For your sake, I hope you built a heaphone jack.
Thank you! Unfortunately I decided to save that feature for v2!
Strong sugestión for v2: Add a hidden knob to regulate the max volume. Kids love to raise it to the max.
(In a tablet, I had to secretly add some transparent tape between the speaker and the plastic cover case.)
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#66So cool, I think all kids would love this
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#67> A 3D-printed enclosure is fine for a prototype, but a real product likely needs injection-molded parts, which require expensive tooling. For kid-friendly toys, yes. But for older users not necessarily: https://teenage.engineering/products/po
I have two of those. They are great additions to my drawers. One has a silicon case and is nicer to use though.
You say "they are great additions to my drawers". Is that because they suck, or is it that you don't have the time to enjoy them? (which I totally understand) I have seen these before and didn't know if they were worth the money. What is your opinion on them?
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#68Looks like a fun project. I can highly recommend Teensy Audio Library for audio projects:
https://www.pjrc.com/teensy/td_libs_Audio.html
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#69> A 3D-printed enclosure is fine for a prototype, but a real product likely needs injection-molded parts, which require expensive tooling. For kid-friendly toys, yes. But for older users not necessarily: https://teenage.engineering/products/po
How are these, are they worth the money? I have seen these before, but thought they might be crappy "jokes". However, if they are decent, I would love to play around with them.
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#70> A 3D-printed enclosure is fine for a prototype, but a real product likely needs injection-molded parts, which require expensive tooling. For kid-friendly toys, yes. But for older users not necessarily: https://teenage.engineering/products/po
How are these, are they worth the money? I have seen these before, but thought they might be crappy "jokes". However, if they are decent, I would love to play around with them.
They -are- decent modular chunks. They have a bit of opinion pushing you in certain directions as far as sound goes.
Each one does a pretty limited set of things and combining them can be annoying.
But you get a lot for the money you spend on them.