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The BBC Micro:bit, while not quite as popular in our community as other microcontroller development boards, has a few quirks that can make it a much more interesting piece of …read more Continue reading BBC Micro:Bit as Handheld Synthesizer
Audio synthesizers can range from vast racks of equipment with modules stitched together by a web of patch cords to a couple of 555s wired together in an Atari punk …read more Continue reading This Simple Light-Controlled Synth Has a Surprisingly Rich Sound
If you’re one of those people who got into building electronics for the purpose of making music, then this Raspberry Pi RP2040-based audio DSP project by [DatanoiseTV] might be of …read more Continue reading A Simple RP2040-Based Audio DSP Board
The abacus has been around since antiquity, and takes similar forms over the hundreds of cultures that have embraced it. It may be one of the first devices to be …read more Continue reading Abacus Synthesizer Really Adds Up
You’d think that a synthesizer that makes as much noise and sports as many knobs as this one would have more than a dozen transistors on board. Surely the circuit …read more Continue reading Relax and Enjoy This Simple Drone Synthesizer
The 80s were the golden age of synthesizers in pop music. Hugely complicated setups that spared no expense were the norm, with synths capable of recreating anything from pianos and …read more Continue reading Mini MIDI Synth Uses Minimum Number of Parts
We have a soft spot for synthesizers – seriously, who doesn’t? So when [Joshua Coleman] combined his retro-looking DIY modular synth with the equally retro Apple II computer, we just …read more Continue reading Modular Synth Pairs Perfectly With The Apple II
[Love Hultén]’s latest piece of interactive art is the SYNTH#BOI, a super-clean build with something of the semi-cyberdeck, semi-vintage computing vibe to it. The device is a combination synthesizer and …read more Continue reading Synth and Visualizer Combo has Retrocomputing Vibe
Most of us have beheld the sonic glory of an Atari Punk Console, that lo-fi synth whose classic incarnation is a pair of 555 timers set up to warble and …read more Continue reading The Atari Punk Console, Now With More Vacuum Tubes
For better or worse, this synthesizer was king in the 1980s music scene. Sure, there had been synthesizers before, but none acheived the sudden popularity of Yamaha’s DX7. “Take on …read more Continue reading Ken Shirriff Breaks Open the Yamaha DX7