This is a bound book you can build into a complete modular system

Like something out of a (nerdy) magician’s library, Build Your Own Modular is a physical, ring-bound book that transforms into a complete Eurorack modular system. It’s both a printed instructional document and the thing you’re building — all in one.

The yellow plastic case of a Roland P-6 pocket drum machine opened up, revealing the factory PCB board and mods with speaker and amplifier circuit.

Hack a Roland P-6 pocket sampler with its own amp and speaker

It’s a drum machine. It’s a sampler. It’s got a rechargeable battery. It’s got… some space inside the case. So hacker DIYDSP (Noah Vawter) added his own amp and speaker, modding the handheld with the self-contained speaker Roland left out.

Peter Kirn - December 16, 2024

Music Thing Modular Workshop System gets its own advent calendar

Out: tiny milk chocolates. In: delicious Program Card code creations for the Music Thing Computer in the Workshop System. It’s a beautiful story of what happens when a small, focused community goes all in on an idea.

Peter Kirn - December 16, 2024

Alternative histories, realized: someone built a working 80s Apple prototype

Peter Kirn - December 9, 2024

Three speculative designs on white pedestals with a white background. A quipu-powered drum machine with knotted pieces of rope, a viola da gamba with a hollow body and amplification, and a skull-and-bone horn.

Imagining an alternate history of music instruments, quipu to skulls

Peter Kirn - November 20, 2024

Journey to the forests of the Amazon and Poland with blind artist Izabela Dłużyk

Peter Kirn - November 12, 2024

monome and RNBO now play together – with a free drum sampler patch

Peter Kirn - October 11, 2024

Music Thing Modular Workshop System: patch, hack, code, mic, jack in

Peter Kirn - October 8, 2024

Nintendo DS as ultra-portable generative source, with homebrew and Lua

Peter Kirn - September 16, 2024

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