[Jordi] made this awesome looking mini amplifier which has a rather unusual feature. He’s calling it the Bizarre Mini Amplifier because it also has a white noise generator built right into it! Bizarre right?
Now, most people would just find a suitable amplifier and put it into a nice box, but not [Jordi]! He’s designed the amplifier circuit from the ground up! It features four distinct stages like most typical amplifiers:
- Impedance Adapt Stage: Two OPAMPS for both the left and right channels — The high input impedance allows for different audio sources to be connected without affecting the output.
- Mixer stage: Combines the left, right and noise signals into one, using a third OPAMP. A potentiometer is the output resistor which allows for the volume control.
- Filter Stage: A simple filter stage that uses a R-C low-pass filter, another potentiometer controls the tone.
- Power Stage: A final power amplifier to boost the output.
After building the circuit, there was a bit of troubleshooting to get it to work properly, so if you’re interested [Jordi] has done a great write-up of this on his blog.
Finally, he decided to add a white noise generator after he discovered it helps him sleep. This is the one part of the project that he didn’t actually go into detail for! But, considering it’s just white noise, we could probably figure out what he did. Stick around after the break to see the device in action!
There’s just something about the retro style look to this thing that we love. We know it’s just a plain old white project box, but between the clear speaker, chrome switches and old labels, it just looks… great!
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via Hack a Day» radio hacks http://hackaday.com/2013/12/12/bizarre-mini-amplifier-white-noise-generator/
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