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Here's a video I've posted on YouTube.com with detailed steps on how to build an Atari Punk Console (APC). I've also covered some of the key concepts required to understand the APC circuit, including the workings of the 555 integrated circuit chip and the workings of the 555's astable oscillator circuit setup and monostable oscillator circuit setup, which collaborate to produce the wonderful variety of tones we hear from the APC. I've also included several demos of the finished product, both solo as well as plugged into my Line 6 Spider IV 75W amplifier, which adds some amazing effects on top of the APC! To help you get the most out of this tutorial video, I've posted the slides and the video narration transcript at the links below. APC Tutorial Slides APC Video Narration Transcript Please don't forget to like the video and subscribe to my YouTube channel !

[This post has also been published on DZone.com , where it has gathered well over 5,000 views.] It is useful to know about the various iterative software development project methodologies and how they originated, not so that you can follow them religiously but so that you can add them to your bag of tricks. I recommend learning about the following. Kanban (1953), whose origin lies within the Toyota manufacturing process innovations Scrum (1986), and its storied origin in the 1986 Harvard Business Review seminal article The New New Product Development Game , which examined 6 major Japanese and American companies to conclude that successful teams had replaced sequential approaches with iterative ones Rational Unified Process (1996), proposed by IBM in response to some of the growing market forces looking for alternatives to the Waterfall family of methodologies Lean (1998), and its origin in Toyota's manufacturing system Agile (2001), especially the contents and motiv