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Make your own MIDI-to-CV adapter in a skull, with a 3D printer and CircuitPython
Liz Clark over at Adafruit has a great DIY project. It’s compact. It’s beginner-friendly. It teaches you some simple embedded Python with Circuit Python. It’s… a skull.
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Atari, at 50, leaves a legacy of electronic imagination in visuals and sound
It’s official: video games, or certainly their leading icon Atari, have crossed the half-century landmark. But maybe that’s why the aesthetics of some of Atari’s earliest greats now sound newly fresh – not only retro, but as something elemental no deep in music, art, and culture.
All the big Apple news from WWDC, at a glance
Okay, creative pros or itinerant machine art producers or fugitive digital bohemian technomusicologists or whatever we call ourselves – a lot of news just dropped at WWDC, but here’s the stuff that likely matters most to you.
Read this story of how the original Xbox startup sound was created
Peter Kirn - October 20, 2021
Gaming Gear Music tech Tech
Commodore CBM 4064 with insanely powerful MSSIAH cart and Look Mum No Computer
Peter Kirn - October 11, 2021
DIY + Unusual Gear Music Music tech Tech
Plogue has made a chip-perfect emulation of the Yamaha FM synth line
Peter Kirn - September 22, 2021
Music tech Software Tech
Afrorack is back with cheap DIY modules, from African percussion to MS-20 filters
Peter Kirn - September 21, 2021
DIY + Unusual Gear Modular-Analog Tech
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