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How easy is it to build your own Digital to Analog Converter (DAC)? Although you can readily purchase a wide variety of DACs these days, building your own can be …read more Continue reading Building a Discrete 14-Bit String DAC
Has anyone ever told you that you just can’t carry a tune? If you were to be the lucky recipient of one of [Ayu]’s synthesizer business cards, well, then it …read more Continue reading 2024 Business Card Challenge: The Gift of Music
Tiny Tapout is an interesting project, leveraging the power of cloud computing and collaborative purchasing to make the mysterious art of IC design more accessible for hardware hackers. [Yeo Kheng …read more Continue reading Tiny Tapeout 4: A PWM clone of Covox Speech Thing
While we generally prefer to bring our readers as much information about a project as possible, sometimes we just have to go with what we see. That generally happens with …read more Continue reading A Brief Look Inside a Homebrew Digital Sampler from 1979
[Simon B] enters our 2024 Business Card Challenge with BAUDI/O, a genuinely useful audio output device. The device is based around the PCM2706 DAC, which handles all the USB interfacing …read more Continue reading 2024 Business Card Challenge: BAUDI/O For the Audio Hacker
Besides obvious technological advancements, early computers built by Apple differed in a major way from their modern analogs. Rather than relying on planned obsolescence as a business model, computers like …read more Continue reading Wozamp Turns Apple II Into Music Player
While the proliferation of the smartphone has caused the personal music player (PMP) market to mostly evaporate, there are still those who prefer a standalone device for their music. The …read more Continue reading Melodio Self Mate
Ever notice that the ESP32-S3 doesn’t have a digital-to-analog converter? [Chris] did and asserts that he doesn’t care because he can just use the PDM system to get the same …read more Continue reading No DAC? Try PDM
How do you convert an old cockpit instrument into a clock? Easy: just build a circuit that convinces it it’s in the air, and the rest will take care of …read more Continue reading Cockpit Instrument Respectfully Retasked as a Clock
Guitarists will do just about anything to get just the right sound out of their setup, including purposely introducing all manner of distortion into the signal. It seems counter-intuitive, but …read more Continue reading Guitar Distortion with Diodes in Code, Not Hardware