Build Your Own Scream Box Workshop
In this beginner-friendly musical hardware hacking workshop, participants will be guided through building their very own TOUCH SENSITIVE DISTORTION AMPLIFIER.
They will start by salvaging a speaker cone from a piece of discarded e-waste, and then will learn about connecting it to a simple audio amplifier circuit. Once the speaker and amplifier are connected and powered, participants will solder the whole thing together and, using cardboard, construct a unique speaker housing that allows the circuit to be touched by human fingers.
When the circuit is touched at two points by human fingers it causes it to overdrive, essentially “shorting” it.
This effect comes through as some of the most insanely dirty distortion you’ve ever heard... and it’s amazing.
PRIOR ELECTRONICS KNOWLEDGE NOT REQUIRED