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Sequencing with light on an alien-looking instrument by Kacper Ziemianin
DIY and instrument-making can be about tinkering and inventing. But it can also be about finding one instrument for your performance and iterating over the long term. That’s what Kacper Ziemianin, aka Ctrl Freq, has done with this “Light-Sequencer” instrument (LSe) – and it’s just reached a breakthrough third hardware version with an accompanying live show.
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Maker Monday: DIY your own tracker hardware for around $50-$75
The tracker revival is here. But to make it happen, we need a tracker in every pocket. Don’t worry: you can absolutely recession-proof trackers, even if you’re wedded to using handheld hardware.
Peter Kirn - January 6, 2025
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Maker Monday: Autodafe put VCV Rack in a Eurorack module, via RasPi
It’s “yo dawg”/Inception time to the max. Not to be outdone by 4ms MetaModule, Autodafe has put all of VCV Rack (specifically its Cardinal fork) into a Eurorack module. Along the way, you’ll learn how to set up Cardinal on Raspberry Pi for any hardware project you might imagine.
Peter Kirn - January 6, 2025
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This is a bound book you can build into a complete modular system
Peter Kirn - December 17, 2024
DIY + Unusual Gear Modular-Analog Music tech Tech
Hack a Roland P-6 pocket sampler with its own amp and speaker
Peter Kirn - December 16, 2024
DIY + Unusual Gear Music tech Tech
Music Thing Modular Workshop System gets its own advent calendar
Peter Kirn - December 16, 2024
DIY + Unusual Gear Modular-Analog Music tech Tech
Alternative histories, realized: someone built a working 80s Apple prototype
Peter Kirn - December 9, 2024
DIY + Unusual Gear Tech
Tim Exile’s cancer recovery project is a generative, morphing groovebox
Peter Kirn - November 26, 2024
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