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Color Sound™ SupaSustain™

This project is based on the schematic drawn by Tobias Karlsson. Notice that it uses 18 volts DC power, so you'll need two batteries for this one.

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This description of the LED/LDR is also from Tobias:

I believe the LDR looked like this from the top (of course, I couldn't actually see it but I'm pretty sure it's the same):

The LDR and LED were mounted together like this in a shrink tube:

For those of you that aren't familiar with this, put the LDR and LED together in the shrink tube, as shown in the picture, then heat the tube carefully with a soldering iron, then solder the legs from the LDR and LED to the board.