How to convert a Tic Tac box into a music box
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Ravindra Kumar:
A Tic Tac box looks like an ordinary box, but here we will tell you what you can do with an empty or filled Tic Tac box. This tiny box offers hours of fun and you can compose your own tunes through this box. The bass tune and tempo can be balanced as a switch is provided in this instrument to produce a wide range of percussion sounds. One of the cool features in this Tic Tac beat box is no power switch. It is an ultimate music box as you can load up various programs and compose your own rhythm apart from the facility to hibernate when it is not in use. This little marvel can make you swing into mesmerizing music with its great sounding tunes.
Complexity level: Moderately easy
Time required: 2-3 hours
Resources required
1. You need a standard workbench.
2. Tools
3. PicAxe 08 M or 08 M2 micro-controller chip
4. 10 K resistors of either 1/4 W or 1/8 W
5. R resistor of 330
6. 22 K resistor
7. Resistor of 560 K
8. LED or red color
9. 10 K linear dual gang slide potentiometer 60 mm
10. 1N4148 or similar diodes
11. Capacitor of 0.01uF or 10 V
12. 28 x 4 mm piezo sounder
13. P x 28 A 6 V key-fob battery
14. 3.5 mm stereo jam socket
15. Jack plug
16. 22 x 12 holes strip-board
17. Spring for a retractable pen
18. Tic Tacpacket of any favor
19. Circuit board placement
Instructions
1. Initiate the process: Cut the 22 x 12 strip-board with a craft knife. One can also use a 5 mm drill to track location but make sure there are no thin bridges of track are left. Now the links and programming sockets should be put and later resistors and diodes followed by IC. If anything is sticking out, just trim it. You can use brass pin for piezo mounting and slide the PCB into the box. The terminals are easy to solder but battery should not be overheated.
2. Making the keyboard: The 10 K linear slide dual gang potentiometer will prove good to make the keyboard just like a mixer desk. There are two straight lines for stereo signals so resistance increases on dual mode across the length. You need to bend up the eight lugs then eliminate the resistive element. This is the beginning of resistivity that becomes more significant later. Now chop the six legs and grind away. The things are not going to be rugged at all. Be careful as the track can be scratched easily. Give the +ve and –ve lines separately to control tempo. Mono and stereo jack plug can be placed.
3. Mixing them in a platform: Now is the time to put the springs on posts and sounder on the top. Assemble the things gently and lid the box. To let the probe lead through, make a hole in the lid of the Tic Tac box soldering the edges. Also make holes to let wire come from keyboard. You are supposed to connect the battery with wires for +ve terminal. This makes the circuit alive. Stick the things properly and use better adhesive. Fix the resistor strip lower down on the panel and play the unit. In the meantime, insulation tape is equally important. This makes the keyboard set with the system. Now it up to you how creative you are and how you decorate it.
4. Design of circuit: Use a 6 V battery and flow the 1.2 V to 4.8 V voltage with the help of diodes. To re-program, the programmed in-circuits R1 and R2 are necessary. Take a 0.1uF capacitor and let the R3 pull down the input to ground level. Possibilities of spurious and annoying noise are always there so be alert. Solder blob will control any kind of disorder. We will also use a red LED to use a wide angle as well as to let us know the power consumption. When active it can be around 1mA and 200u in sleep mode.
5. PicAxe micro-controller and encoding: You may face difficulties in opening the encoded file. If so, just change the extension of file and do it .bas from .tmp, it is just because of formats difference. In sleep mode, Tic Tac takes 4 seconds to convert analogue to digital. ADC pulls down the resistor. ADC reads 0 to 255 so its track value is good. It can only produce the sound with a fixed duration and control. Zero value on ADC gives silence. The Minor Pentatonic, Blues, Hungarian, Arabic Hejaz and Chromatic can be stored in your free running generator, i.e. tic tac. The random beats come in sequence with 2 to 5. And start a new set. You can stimulate the circuit before you build and at the same time real-time debugging on a running controller can be done.
6. Musical notes production: Since this is a compressed version, some errors may occur. The PixAxe is used because it can produce musical notes across the octaves that too in full chromatic scale of 36 notes. When played next to each other, some notes will sound wrong. The basic five pentatonic scales are like A C D E G. Meanwhile other scales do not allow the disharmonies. Generally, 6 or 7 notes and their certain combinations are harmonious. What is properly played from written music is actually chromatic scale. On Tic Tac, it makes hitting the right note difficult. The characterization of 6 notes from various areas can be recorded in the form of sound and music.
Frequently asked questions
What can be the further development in this project?
Ans. There will be stable multivibrators so that operator could change the frequency in response to temperature and light.
Quick tips
You are suggested to put the sounder in particular space and feed everything in eleventh hour. If you will use a hooked piece of stiff wire, it will not affect the battery placement.
Things to watch out for
Since IC socket is not being used so you need to be very careful while using it. Solder the pins on the chip to make these last longer.
Wed, 16 Nov 2011 04:47:24 GMT
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