Making a Theremin

Nov 17, 2011 20 Replies

Anyone ever done such a thing?



I have been asked to help build a working one. It only needs to work and it need not produce good audio results.



I had never heard of a Theremin until today....................



I would not normally get involved in such a project but the woman that asked me to help has nice pair of t*ts and I want to play with them.


Obviously never seen Midsomer Murders then.

Or heard the Beach Boys..

I have been looking at Theremin technology for another application, reading hand gestures on mobile phones. However my design is based on Cypress one below just using one integrated circuit, a Programmable System on a Chip

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Nice two surely?

No, but a long, long time ago I scanned in the design for a valve powered one.

If you like things that glow and aren't afraid of high voltages:

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- it's overwear, but he's definitely conducting!

Theremin Kit @ £27.25:

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it, it works very well.

Takes a long time to get useful sounds out of them !! Brad

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Built it, it works very well.

Jaycar stuff is good and excellent value. Rather like Maplin once was. Many years ago.

A bit more research and I have managed to find

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get her charged up and measure your rise time eh?

Check out her reactance and monitor her resistance?

Measure her damping factor?

Coil her up and check her admittamce....

You'd have to plug her in and turn her on first ...

..in order to measure her reluctance...

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