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SJS-ONE: Open, Arduino-Based Synth, with Crazy Cases and Web Troubleshooting
SJS-ONE is an 8-bit synth that you add to an Arduino board, making it ideal for hardware and firmware tinkerers and lovers of unique monosynths. But we’ll give it bonus points for two other reasons. First, it has some really bizarre cases available as add-ons, which look a bit like punk birdhouses. (Birdhouse squats? Hot […]
Read moreBio-interfacing Meets Music: Journal, Berlin Opening, and Get Started with Open Hardware Right Now
To understand the relationship between computer and musician, you have to first understand the relationship between computer and human. For many years, that interaction has primarily involved some gesture – the click of a mouse, the swipe of a finger – and an accompanying interface abstraction. But now, from phones to desktops, computers are not […]
Peter Kirn - July 11, 2012
Music Music tech
Open Source Music Hardware: Got Gear? Fill Out Our Survey as We Look at the Landscape
If you do want to get religious about this, you may want to wear this around your neck: Open Source Hardware logo as jewelry! Photo (CC-BY-SA) MAKE’s Becky Stern. We’ve followed open source hardware – and generally hardware that is more open to user customization and modification – on this site since the beginning. As […]
Milkymist One, All-in-One Open Source VJ Workstation
Peter Kirn - August 16, 2010
Archive Motion Music tech
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