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 [...]
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 [...]
As soon as we sell our house (#reallystressfulthingtodowithyourtime) we’ll be moving north and becoming some kind of gypsy family living with my in laws. This means while my lovely wife is doing her PHD and we have two young kids we’ll actually be able to have some spare money and also hopefully some spare time. [...]
A quick video of the rig in action, Arduinome 128, Vestax VCI-300, Custom Ekadek Fenkner 7000. And of course, Rhythm and Sound. Meganome Meters of Destruction from Dylan Wood on Vimeo. I’m also well into my next build project, the Dethklok. It’s an ASM-2 based analog modular synth that I’m building. I’ve got a [...]
For the last year or so I’ve been slowly collecting parts to build by arduinome 128, recently I’ve found the time to solder these bits together and get the beast working. My good friend Bartaug has been helping me follow in his footsteps and build an arduinome 128 using only a single arduino hooked up [...]