Forums Music Sound Engineering Help meeded to build a Theremin

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    Mezz
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      I want to build a Theremin to give to my autistic nephew for Christmas, I cant afford to buy one ready built as the prices for decent ones are all £300+, so I figure I should be able to build one for 1/3 that price…..

      But Im struggling to find decent instructions or design schematics. can anyone help ?

      #1261740
      General Lighting
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        European design, and doesn’t look like it requires particularly hard to find components. (I assume you must have some fairly advanced (by todays British standards) electronics skills, test equipment and workshop space….)

        Open.Theremin.LC Schematic

        #1261742
        Chrispydelic
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          Nice. I wanna build one!

          #1261743
          Mezz
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            @General Lighting 505291 wrote:

            European design, and doesn’t look like it requires particularly hard to find components. (I assume you must have some fairly advanced (by todays British standards) electronics skills, test equipment and workshop space….)

            Open.Theremin.LC Schematic

            Skills, well no TBH not advanced at all. I did PCB assembly for a few months in Panasonic 15 years ago, and assembled build to order computers for about a year, but the PCB assembly I did was mostly machine setting, and the computers was pretty much just installing plug & play expansion boards, very simple stuff. Im not bad with a soldering iron but have no diagnostic equipment at all.

            I found a couple of places now that sell the PCBs so got to price up the components needed

            #1261741
            Pat McDonald
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              Good luck with it. 🙂

              There are a few designs around, but the key element seems to be the coil winding that reacts to your bodies’ natural electric and magnetic fields. Coil winding is mostly patience – hence the high prices.

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