{"id":5636,"date":"2025-12-11T12:04:30","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T17:04:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/?p=5636"},"modified":"2025-12-11T12:06:21","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T17:06:21","slug":"diy-synth-for-circuits-and-signal-processing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/11\/diy-synth-for-circuits-and-signal-processing\/","title":{"rendered":"DIY synth for circuits and signal processing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/LABOR_ASSEMBLED_PROMO-2.jpg.1680x1120_q85_smart.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"575\" src=\"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/LABOR_ASSEMBLED_PROMO-2.jpg.1680x1120_q85_smart-1024x575.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5638\" srcset=\"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/LABOR_ASSEMBLED_PROMO-2.jpg.1680x1120_q85_smart-1024x575.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/LABOR_ASSEMBLED_PROMO-2.jpg.1680x1120_q85_smart-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/LABOR_ASSEMBLED_PROMO-2.jpg.1680x1120_q85_smart-768x432.jpg 768w, http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/LABOR_ASSEMBLED_PROMO-2.jpg.1680x1120_q85_smart-1536x863.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/LABOR_ASSEMBLED_PROMO-2.jpg.1680x1120_q85_smart.jpg 1680w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I came across this cool minimal synth kit called Labor from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ericasynths.lv\/shop\/diy-kits-1\/edu-diy\/\">Erica synths<\/a>. It&#8217;s great for learning about circuits and signal processing. There are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@MoritzKlein0\/videos\">videos online<\/a> about it to get <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=QyapQpQOwUM&amp;t=210s\">started<\/a>. It looks great!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When I was a kid, maybe around 8 years old, I had a couple of toy like this, and they taught me a lot of basic rules and intuitions about circuits and signal processing. One was a Radio Shack electronics experiments kit, and the other was some sort of sound effects generator with lots of knobs and switches. Those toys and the <a href=\"https:\/\/hackaday.com\/2017\/01\/18\/forrest-mims-radio-shack-and-the-notebooks-that-launched-a-thousand-careers\/\">mini notebooks by Forrest M. Mimm III<\/a> gave me a lot to experiment with and learn from. This Labor synth could set a lot of people on a good trajectory for learning about circuits and signal processing too. In a fun way that connects with music as well, for those who might be into that. Some of the circuit design\/analysis would be appropriate even for high school or early college circuit classes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/LABOR_ASSEMBLED_PROMO-2.jpg.1680x1120_q85_smart.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I came across this cool minimal synth kit called Labor from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ericasynths.lv\/shop\/diy-kits-1\/edu-diy\/\">Erica synths<\/a>. It&#8217;s great for learning about circuits and signal processing. There are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@MoritzKlein0\/videos\">videos online<\/a> about&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/11\/diy-synth-for-circuits-and-signal-processing\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5638,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5636"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5640,"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5636\/revisions\/5640"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}