Collaborate Disseminate
As the world becomes more and more digital, there are still a few holdouts from the analog world we’ve left behind. Vinyl records are making quite the comeback, and film …read more Continue reading Digital to Analog in the Darkroom
Restoring classic hardware of any sort is a great hobby to have, whether it’s restoring vintage cars, tools, or even antique Apple or Commodore computers. Understanding older equipment can help …read more Continue reading Dial Into the Internet Like It’s 1999
Back in the old days, we didn’t have fancy digital clocks. No, we had good analog clocks with a big hand and a little hand, and if you wanted to …read more Continue reading Unique Clock is All Hands, No Dial, and Does the Worm
For those of us who grew up before the Internet, the center of pretty much every house was the TV. It was the shrine before which we all worshipped, gathering …read more Continue reading Tiny TV Celebrates the Forgotten Tech of CRTs
On our favourite low-attention-span content site, [Kelly Heaton] has recently started sharing a series of “Printed Circuit Birds”. These are PCBs shaped like birds, looking like birds and chirping like …read more Continue reading Printed Circuit Bird Family Calls For Us To Consider Analog
As anyone who has ever owned a piece of older equipment that has a potentiometer in it can attest to, these mechanical components do need their regular cleaning ritual. Whether …read more Continue reading Giving Vintage Synths New Life In A Potentiometer Cleaning Showdown
We’ve not had a circuit sculpture piece for a while, so here’s “ioalieia” a lovely hybrid digital-analog sound sculpture by [Eirik Brandal] to dig into. The host of the show …read more Continue reading The Eerie Sounds Of Ioalieia: An ESP32/Valve/Analog Hybrid Circuit Sculpture
We don’t see many EMG (electromyography) projects, despite how cool the applications can be. This may be because of technical difficulties with seeing the tiny muscular electrical signals amongst the …read more Continue reading PsyLink An Open Source Neural Interface For Non-Invasive EMG
In our no-nonsense journey through the world of audio technology we’ve so far have looked at digital audio and the vinyl disk recording. What’s missing? Magnetic tape, the once-ubiquitous recording …read more Continue reading Know Audio: Mixtapes, Tape Loops, And Razor Blades
One of the great things about creating an effects chain in music production software like IK’s excellent AmpliTube suite is being able to just plonk ’em down in any order you like, quickly change the order as you see fit and experiment as much as you l… Continue reading Disruption stomp uses mix and match modules for tone-tweaking fun