Inside the Voodoo Magick Box
From CES
Dissecting the Voodoo Magick Box. Click on the pics for high res.
The microchip reads:
12C508A
04/POA1
(M) 0203
with (M) being the "Microchip" logo.
The 12C508A is a small 8bit 4MHz PIC chip. If you're thinking about pirating this design, don't bother. A PIC requires a program to be uploaded to it first before it will work. Other than that, this design is fairly standard.
Both resistors are 1000 ohm. One is current limiting for the LED's. One looks to be in line with the electrode output (probably for current limiting protection, don't fry your brain).
Capacitators:
Closest to microchip: 104
Closest to battery: K5K
Both of these appear to be filtering the voltage regulator.
The diode prevents damage if the battery is reversed.
Voltage regulator: MC78L 05ACP 224
On the back it says K5.
This is a TO-92 packaged 5v regulator. data sheet
A comment or two. The output would be considered "mono" in audio terms. While this may sound bad for audio, this is quite standard and usually desirable for CES equipment. To contrast it, a "stereo" version would be more likely to use some type of frequency modulation for the brainwave manipulation. This would be much more complicated and may not give the intended results. As touched on before, it is unclear what frequencies (or varied frequencies) the PIC chip programming would output. I'm not overly clear how the PIC chip would invert the voltage for the bottom half of the wave form. This needs to be scoped for clarity.
