The Atari Punk Console (APC) is a dual 555 (or single 556) based synth. Designed by the famous (and somewhat infamous) Forrest Mims in 1980 and originally simply named “Sound Synthesizer”, the circuit ...

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngXrTd-8jf4&w=470] The Atari Punk Console, a tiny synthesizer based on the ubiquitous 555 timer chip, is the first build de ...

Gizmodo University concludes its Discover Electronics Online series with the construction of an Atari Punk Console. Impress your friends and intimidate your enemies with Lo-Fi sound effects! And did ...

An Atari Punk Console has nothing to do with a real Atari other than the sounds it makes. Both use an oscillator to generate square waves, which give you the harsh, crunchy sounds from the golden days ...

Is no gadget sacred anymore? Here we have an old school Ericsson rotary telephone stripped of its innards which were subsequently replaced with a home-built Atari ‘punk’ console. Did we need a new way ...