Atari Punk Console - exploring a classic circuit

When I was refreshing my understanding of the good old 555 a few weeks ago, I spotted the Stepped tone generator in Forrest Mims' classic book. Today I'm going to explore that cool sound maker The Forrest Mims 555 book: https://archive.org/details/555-designs Here are a handful of actual musicians who do a good job of showing this thing's musical capabilities: Notes and volts:    • Atari Punk Console   Haze anderson:    • Atari Punk Console and 4093 Chaos NAND - L...      • #jamuary2022 Day 5 - Synthrotek Atari Punk...   (with autotune) O.S.cillator    • Back to Noise! / Rhythm Drone Live Mini Ja...   Expensive Notes    • #Jamuary 2023 - Baby8 Sequencer with Atari...   (1:37) Sid Rockett    • Invaders Must Die (Atari punk console) demo   LOOK MUM NO COMPUTER    • WORKING ENDING   (5:46) Animoscillator    • Synthrotek APC - Atari Punk Console - EHX ...   ----- My tip jar:   / pileofstuff   My other tip jar (channel membership) :    / @pileofstuff   Buy me a coffee (or a beer): https://ko-fi.com/pileofstuff If you are OK with me getting a commission on your purchases, feel free to use my affiliate links: Ebay: https://ebay.to/33IF7PA Banggood: http://pileofstuff.ca/r/9ajsf Some other links to products may be affiliate links https://odysee.com/@pileofstuff #ElectronicsCreators ----- This isn't the only way to do it. It's probably not the best way to do it. But it's how I did it.