I’m realizing how much I’ve bitten off with this monolithic synth project of mine, I’m not getting to spend much time on it but I’m slowly ticking away at it. I had some problems getting everything up and going but after I tracked down a reversed capacitor in the PSU section I’m underway! Next up [...]
So it’s been a LONG time since I did any work on my modular synth project but I’m finally making progress again. I had fully designed up a panel in illustrator to get laser cut or CNC’d and printed but I’ve decided to go a little more lofi and upcyclce a dead G5 case I [...]
As per usual I’m mentally buried in re-thinking how I might approach making music. This is the usual headspace I end up in after a long period of not enough time to be creative, with our second child arriving 7 months ago music making has been thin on the ground. I’m also in the midst [...]
The new aluminium panel for my arduinome 128 has arrived. I got it from willum @ praxworld It’s REALLY nicely made, the only hurdle now is finding some imperial screws for it since it was made in the US. I can’t wait to have this put together, my wooden arduinome case came together well but [...]
Sony have posted a video of Smart AR their new augmented reality technology. Whilst technically impressive it leaves me wondering about a few of the use cases. Why would you want to point your phone at a menu so that you can browse the menu on your phone? It’s right in front of you anyway, [...]
Ok, so I’m going to take a break from nerdy posts about synthesizers and post some of my artistic output here for the world to see. Awesome times a million, more emotions than god…..
I’ve had an old Casio VL-Tone battery powered keyboard/synth/calculator sitting in a box in my garage for a long time and I’ve always meant to do something with it. Found this video today and it makes me think there is hope my my VL tone yet… I’ll put it on the project list, between my [...]
Ponoko are a New Zealand based company doing amazing things with online fabrication and digital design. http://www.ponoko.com/ Right now you can order laser cut parts, electronic components and 3D printing. They announced today the 5th iteration of their service. I was hanging out for this as I was hoping for CNC and thought it would [...]
I’m getting really close to getting the front panel for my modular synth made so that I can start assembling. Since I started this project I’ve been thinking a lot about how I might actually want my rig to look once I’ve built a bit more gear for it so I’ve been researching buclha style [...]