DIY + Unusual Motion Tech
Optical analog video feedback in a massive, rotating 4K machine
It’s digitally controlled optical goodness: a humble Teensy translates analog knob turns into control of 4K displays, all built into beautiful mahogany enclosures and giant cranks. The result: elegant, precise fractals blossom out of 4K displays by literally tweaking the knobs on the units. Behold, The Light Herder!
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Make Noise and Tom Erbe have made a mighty morphing spatial Plexiphon
Soundhack creations endure years and decades, and now we get a new one. Think mighty morphing modeless modulation. Plexiphon is neither reverb or echo. It’s both, simultaneously, for spatial textural sounds you can shift fluidly. And in my quest to avoid being consumed by a sea of modules, this one just rose way up the list.
Peter Kirn - May 7, 2026
Modular-Analog Music tech Tech
What’s new in the DIY world of Music Thing’s Workshop System
It’s a Very Workshop System Jamuary. Music Thing’s patchable music lab-in-a-lunchbox has proved that small-batch personal hardware can attract a select, dedicated community sharing great stuff with one another. Let’s catch up with what’s been happening in that magical village of synth wonder in the past year. Don’t forget, the ideas and code here are all open — meaning this could inspire more.
Peter Kirn - January 7, 2026
DIY + Unusual Modular-Analog Music tech Stories Tech
In flickering feedback, an audiovisual synth hums and sings
Peter Kirn - February 27, 2025
DIY + Unusual Gear Motion Music tech Tech
Dnipro x Sinevibes Radiant multi-effects Eurorack module – made in Ukraine
Peter Kirn - September 30, 2023
Modular-Analog Music tech Tech
