New research for Royal Society of Chemistry funded Organised Atoms workshops, using mine waste crystals in electronics.

This is a new design we've made for a synthesiser, it's a light controlled oscillator that uses a natural pyrite crystal (from Wheal Unity Wood mine, in Cornwall) to output sounds that change as you move tiny 'cats whisker' wires to different places on the crystal surface.

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