MAKING SPOOKY SOUNDS WITH LIGHT
Build Your Own Retro Analog Synthesizer!
Anyone who’s shivered in the dark at a scary movie or laughed at the unintentional cheese-ball of bad sci-fi (paging Ed Wood) knows the eerie wail of the theremin. A Russian named Léon Theremin invented this strange instrument, which you play without touching, in the 1920s. The classic theremin uses two antennas as controllers. Radio waves, which change shape as you move your hands near the antennas, control the instrument’s sounds and volume. For our project, we’re building a simple theremin using interrupted photons (light) instead of ...
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