Here we see the simple yet powerful Atari Punk Console in convenient tube form. Yes, my friends, designed for convenience and style - the Atari Tube is a welcome addition to any electro-noise performance. It features a borderline blinding white LED at its center and control knobs at each end for enhanced “twiddlability”.
(Ear plugs not included . . . but recommended for square-wave haters)

UPDATE:
Listen to a sample - Atari Tube V.0.2 (w/reverb) mp3 2.4mb

It may be full of holes, slightly unreliable, and in need of some touch-ups, but it’s mine and I’m proud. I didn’t design it, Worth Ekik did. I etched it from a copper clad board with Ferric Chloride. And it was fun.

Aww, take a gander at the “Lil’ Captain”. Although I was unable to put in most of the finishing touches I intended (check out the hovering gain knob), Dad still loved it. Hey he’s the one who taught me how to solder in the first place. He was an electronics engineer in the US Navy. I told him how frustrating I found resistor color codes and he agreed. Due to slight color blindness he almost wasn’t admitted into the service. He explained,
“They had to give me a special test to get in. A guy held up a yellow pencil and a blue pencil and asked - ‘Which one’s yellow?’ I pointed to the bright yellow pencil, and he said ‘Fine, you’re in.’ ”
Ah the rigorous scrutiny of military enrollment. Happy Father’s Day, Captain Mel!

Decided to use a prescription bottle as a case for my VGA coupler. This somehow seems to say “narbotic” to me. Maybe it has some future as a logo/icon for this site.

Here we see another useful item built from a Make/Adafruit kit - Minty Boost. It’s a battery powered USB charger using an Altoids gum box as its case - pictured here powering its very own lighting. My lady has been using altoids cans for crafty purposes for quite some time now. I wonder if the company is on to this trend.

Make magazine has me on a Soldering spree.

This is a VGA coupler I decided to make after having such a hard time finding a well priced premade one. It needs a case but already works quite well. NOTE: Remember to reverse the wires from one end to the other when making such a thing!

Mitch Altman, inventor of the TV-B-Gone designed this “brain machine”, a sound and light brain wave entrainer. It’s constructed using Adafruit’s MiniPOV3 kit, a pair of safety glasses, and a spair set of headphones(not pictured). It still needs to be glued down/finished but hey - what doesn’t?

Finally, a small guitar amplifier work in progress, the Little Gem. I originally tried this one a month or two ago but all it did was play Radio Disney incessantly. So I went back and rebuilt it with much sucess, now it must be mounted (like everything else, zing.).

More to Come - C