My sons first Bubba_S inspired circuit

[Shotline]

As many of you may remember I was complaining about the cost of parts for electronics projects my son is working on.

Bubba_S send my son an awsome care package with lots of interesting parts and I promised to post up a circuit he created.

Well here it is......and it is also his first YouTube video (he realizes he made some mistakes in the video, but what the heck you know!)

Once again, a big :thumbup to Bubba_S.


youtu.be/XfL3sTckUao

 

[dmaxAl]

:thumbup

From small acorns mighty oaks are grown.

 

[Shotline]

the cool part (from a fathers perspective) is that he started with a basic 555 timer tone generator and on his own came up with what is essentially an Atari Punk console through experimentation.

 

[Zerox]

Cool but from the thread title I thought you and built a flat track in your backyard with input from Bubba Shobert.

 

[Karbon]

Rad.

 

[SuperMike]

Your kid sounds like a nerd.

:thumbup Awesome. You should be proud.

 

[JackTheTripper]

Cool! Love 555's.

There is a forum somewhere that has "contests" that give you a month to attain a goal. Once it was to produce a circuit that would play a "song" (a song being at least 3 notes) on it's own with no user input. I used some 556's (just 2 555's in 1 package) and a binary counter. The counter drove 2 LEDs so they would flash at (psudo) random. Then there was a light sensor which drove the tone generating 555. The cool side effect was the amount of light in the room also changed the tone.

Sorry for the sound on the video. You'll probably have to turn up the volume all the way. And sound doesn't kick in until about 30 seconds.


youtu.be/ih__DyQcGq4#t=29s

 

[Asphaultnaut]

get him an Arduino uno next and see what he can come up with

 

[Shotline]

get him an Arduino uno next and see what he can come up with

His birthday is in December......guess whats on the menu!

 

[Asphaultnaut]

His birthday is in December......guess whats on the menu!

make sure to throw in a cheap protoboard, some pager motors, a bunch of LEDs a piezo speaker and jumper wires. A good 3 or 5 volt supply is always handy A few cheap servos if you can afford em.

good times. I borrowed an old windoze netbook with USB for my portable dev environment and the MAKE book on arduino for beginners.

it's like LEGO for bigger nerds than LEGO nerds

 

[JackTheTripper]

make sure to throw in a cheap protoboard, some pager motors, a bunch of LEDs a piezo speaker and jumper wires. A good 3 or 5 volt supply is always handy A few cheap servos if you can afford em.

good times. I borrowed an old windoze netbook with USB for my portable dev environment and the MAKE book on arduino for beginners.

it's like LEGO for bigger nerds than LEGO nerds

You mean like this?

http://www.makershed.com/Getting_Started_with_Arduino_Kit_V3_0_p/msgsa.htm

But honestly it looks like he already has everything he needs.

 

[Bubba_s]

Just saw this, COOOOOOOOOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :thumbup mini-Shot. What 's next? I wish I knew where my proto board (is that what it's called?). If you need any certain cap/resistor/potentiometer/etc. values holler! I don't get too many messages so I forget to check them, but please just ask. One really cool thing about all of this is that it inspired me to gather up some more stuff to donate to my kids school for them to learn with. Science is COOL!!!!

:teeth

 

[Shotline]

You mean like this?

http://www.makershed.com/Getting_Started_with_Arduino_Kit_V3_0_p/msgsa.htm

But honestly it looks like he already has everything he needs.

This is the one he is getting. It has plenty of stuff to get him started.

https://www.sparkfun.com/products/11236?

And with the stuff Bubba_S sent he will be well positioned to build many projects.

 

[catch2otwo]

For a youth culture that is so caught up in useless crap like facebook and jersey shore, thumbs up to ya for giving him an opportunity to learn some useful shizzy

 

[Diezel]

I have a Samlex 7a power supply that I will donate to your kid. Just to keep him into electronics.

 

[Shotline]

I have a Samlex 7a power supply that I will donate to your kid. Just to keep him into electronics.

That would be awesome. He doesn't really have a need for that much amperage right now but I can see it in the future. He wants to do some LED projects and that thing could run about 350 LED's.:laughing

If you are sure you don't need it I will PM you our address.

 

[Diezel]

That would be awesome. He doesn't really have a need for that much amperage right now but I can see it in the future. He wants to do some LED projects and that thing could run about 350 LED's.:laughing

If you are sure you don't need it I will PM you our address.

Do I need it, not really considering I have a 12a and a 35a supply. It's not about the amperage need now. It's about the stability of voltage under load. a 7a power supply, when you are drawing 3-5a will be more stable and cleaner then a supply at it's max. Will also live longer too. PM Me your address and I'll ship if when I can.

 

[Shotline]

PM sent.

Thank you.