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Detail of "Pretty Bird ver. CC" (2019), an artistic circuit board edition with an analog electronic chirp.

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Electronic parts to build "Pretty Bird ver. CC" (2019) edition of 150

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Pretty Bird_CC_schematic.pdf

Schematic for my "Pretty Bird ver. CC" (2019) edition of 150

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Bird Study #1 (Tortuga Escondida), 2018. Analog electronics and watercolor on paper. The circuit is discussed in my log "More bird voice experiments." For video: https://vimeo.com/297499948

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KHeaton_Bird_1.pdf

Basic, introductory "chirping canary" circuit based on Internet research, with my notes about ways to add variation in voice quality and tempo.

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electrolier_sept_det_2.jpg

Detail of "Electrolier (September night in Virginia," 2018 showing an instance of my Mother Nature Board in sculptural form (the object covered in a tangle of wires).

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Detail of an "electrolier" sculpture that I built with circuit designs from Hacking Nature's Musicians. This photo shows my Mother Nature Board in sculptural format.

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Hackaday_electrolier_det4.jpg

Detail of an "electrolier" sculpture that I built with circuit designs from Hacking Nature's Musicians. This photo shows my "Lesser Angle-winged Katydid" circuit, which makes an intermittent, percussive rattling sound.

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Hackaday_electrolier_det2.jpg

Detail of an "electrolier" sculpture that I built with circuit designs from Hacking Nature's Musicians. The sculpture is a nocturnal soundscape inspired by the sound of insects in rural Virginia (specifically, during the late summer / early Fall).

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Hackaday_electrolier_det1.jpg

Detail of an "electrolier" sculpture that I built with circuit designs from Hacking Nature's Musicians. The sculpture is a nocturnal soundscape inspired by the sound of insects in rural Virginia (specifically, during the late summer / early Fall).

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Katydid.pdf

My schematic for the Lesser Angle-winged Katydid described within my project logs.

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Visual reference for my "pulse_gen_monostable_555" PCB -- aka my versatile tree cricket circuit (see related files)

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Visual reference for my "Cricket1" PCB (see related files)

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Pulse_gen_monostable_Gerber_Drill files.zip

In case you want to make a printed circuit board of my versatile "tree cricket," here are the files. Note that the board is designed to be the insect's body (so you need to make your own wings for it).

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KHeaton_HNM_block diagram.pdf

This is a high-level overview of my method to sequence multiple sound generators in a naturalistic way. See "Mother Nature Board" for more info.

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pulse_gen_monostable_555.pdf

Sorry for the obtuse name. This circuit was modeled after tree crickets, which make a wide range of sounds at night. The various options ("OPT") can get confusing, so start with basic components / values and experiment from there.

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Cricket1_Gerber_Drill.zip

Files to manufacture my simple transistor cricket PCB

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Mother Nature Board (random pulse gen).pdf

An adaptation of Charles Platt and Aaron Logue's "Really, Really Random Number Generator" that can be used to switch other circuits (or aspects their of) on/off. By turning insects on and off randomly, a more natural chorus is achieved.

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Heaton_piezo_amp2.pdf

A little amplifier board that you can use to make a piezo speaker. Refer to "Piezo2_gerber.zip" for files to make a printed circuit board.

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Heaton_transistor cricket.pdf

A simple chirping cricket - great for learning about astable multivibrators and piezo acoustics.

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Piezo2_gerber.zip

Gerber files for my little piezo amplifier circuit - basically, a copy of RadioShack buzzer part #273-060. These are ready to send out for manufacture (I have tested the boards).

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