Screambox Workshop: Build your own touch sensitive distortion amplifier!

In this beginner-friendly musical hardware hacking workshop, participants will be guided through building their very own TOUCH SENSITIVE DISTORTION AMPLIFIER.

They will start by salvaging a speaker cone from a piece of discarded e-waste, and then will learn about connecting it to a simple audio amplifier circuit, known as the LM386. Once the speaker and amplifier are connected and powered, participants will solder the whole thing together and, using cardboard, construct a unique speaker housing that allows the circuit to be touched by human fingers.

When the circuit is touched, at two points, by human fingers, it causes it to overdrive, essentially "shorting" it. This effect comes through as some of the most insanely dirty distortion you've ever heard and it's amazing.

NO PRIOR KNOWLEDGE NEEDED

Who is this class for?
For anyone who wants to amplify sound in a new and creative way.

No prior experience/knowledge needed.

100% beginner friendly workshop.

Your instructors:

The Disengineering Society is a hardware hacking collective and a publisher of educational materials. Disengineering’s publications go hand-in-hand with their widely offered hardware-hacking workshops that emphasize chaos, radical collaboration, electronic screeches, and a devout commitment to combating “planned obsolescence”. @disengineering dis.engineering

This is a masks optional event.

As with all NYC Resistor events, this class is 18+ and governed by our Code of Conduct. The Code of Conduct, as well as accessibility information, can be found at www.nycresistor.com/participate/.