Theremin

Theremin

In the February 1996 issue of "Electronic Musician", an article by Robert Moog, titled "Build the EM Theremin" was published. Below are the details, images and a sound file for the THEREMIN I built from that article.

Schematic

Bill of Materials

Divide and Conquer

I divided the implementation of the electronics into 6 sub circuits.

• Power Supply

• Pitch Antenna Circuit

• Volume Antenna Circuit

• Variable Pitch Oscillator - Fixed Pitch Oscillator - Pitch Tuning

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• Volume Oscillator - Volume Tuning

• Detector - Voltage Controlled Amplifier - VCA Processor

Photos

Fritzing

Actual construction resulted in difference between the fritzing layout and actual build.