[General] 555 timer audio circuits

[Tim H]

The Meatstand learn to solder kit uses a 555 timer to clock a counter and
then uses the counter to display a dice pattern. My drive to build the kit
was wanting students to do more "work" than a battery and a couple leds...
the things I feel I learned though: being cheap enough to meet peoples
expectations is kinda hard. I missed that mark with that project. Also, it
can take a brand new solderer over an hour to fully assemble and solder
over 30 components. (Depending, of course) We should talk about it some
more.

-Tim
On Apr 24, 2014 8:37 PM, "Stephan Henning" <shenning at gmail.com> wrote:

> Well, putting together 2000 of these kits is entirely different from using
> them to teach kids to solder.
>
> Best way to get 2000 of the kits together is to pull the design, determine
> what parts are necessary, price the BOM and then price the board utilizing
> the parts chosen.
>
> How ever you do it, I would build at least a half dozen prototypes first
> and put them in the hands of kids and make sure it can survive a little bit
> of abuse before making purchases in any large quantities.
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 8:30 PM, Matthew H <hendrix04 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I was more thinking getting boards made, ordering parts and put kits
>> together yourself.
>>
>>
>> On Thursday, April 24, 2014, Matt Barron <mbarronj at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> The design is known, open source, commodity, as are all the parts. If
>>> needed, it could be put out to a board house and reels of parts bought and
>>> sent to a pcb fab house for smt pick-n-place and reflow. I could handle
>>> doing it industrially.
>>>
>>> But I don't feel like that's the Hacker/Maker/Artist/Engineer style I'm
>>> going for. Howabout teaching kids to solder? Teaching classes on music
>>> synthesis and circuitmaking art? I am looking for the best thing to provide
>>> for the Huntsville community, and I would like creative feedback and Ideas
>>> from MakersLocal 256.
>>>
>>> If you were going to change the world with a 555 timer, how would you do
>>> it?
>>>
>>> Matt
>>>
>>> On Apr 24, 2014, at 8:43 PM, Stephan Henning <shenning at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Should be easy enough to source the parts, would need to buy a copy to
>>> replicate the board, unless you know the schematic for the circuit being
>>> used.
>>>
>>> Makershed version is much smaller and appears to have a lot lower part
>>> count. I'd be interested to see the BOM cost comparisons between the two.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 7:31 PM, Matthew H <hendrix04 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> You could also see if makershed has the ability to handle that quantity
>>>
>>>
>>> http://www.makershed.com/product_p/mkjr2.htm
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 8:28 PM, Matthew H <hendrix04 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> I would see if you could get the design for that board and source all
>>> the parts yourself.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 8:25 PM, Stephan Henning <shenning at gmail.com>wrote:
>>>
>>> Clarify your question please.
>>>
>>> You wish to order 2000 of those kits?
>>>
>>> -Stephan
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 7:01 PM, Matt Barron <mbarronj at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hey makers!
>>>
>>> What do you guys think is the best way to get about 2000 of something
>>> like this:
>>>
>>>
>>> http://www.etsy.com/listing/123476855/atari-punk-console-diy-kit?utm_source=google&utm_medium=product_listing_promoted&utm_campaign=music_low&gclid=CKzBipaq-r0CFY3m7AodNQcApw
>>>
>>>
>>>
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