Breaking Bread

I hope to write about this more in the near future, but in the meanwhile, here’s a photo from a two-day course I took this weekend in electronics breadboarding. On day one, we made the rear item, which is a VCO, or voltage-controlled oscillator, with a three-button keyboard that allowed it to emit a variety of pitches. The breadboard in the foreground is shown when still under construction. It would eventually become an LFO, or low frequency oscillator, that would introduce variation to the VCO. Several other stages followed. I think I only destroyed one integrated circuit and one potentiometer in the process.