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A little over a month ago, we featured a project from [Igor] who built 64 bits of DRAM from scratch using discrete components. Jokes about memory pricing aside, he did …read more Continue reading A Feature-Rich Drum Machine
From the 60s to perhaps the mid-00s, the path to musical stardom was essentially straight with very few forks. As a teenager you’d round up a drummer and a few …read more Continue reading Pi Pico Lays Down the Groove
In this tremendously educational video, [Linus Åkesson] takes us through how he develops a synthesizer and a sequencer and editor for it on the Commodore 64, all in BASIC. While …read more Continue reading Linus Live-Codes Music on the Commodore 64
Although it’s still possible to grab a couple of friends, guitars, and a set of drums and start making analog music like it’s 1992 and there are vacant garages everywhere …read more Continue reading Digital Audio Workstation In A Box
Custom music instruments here at Hackaday range from wacky to poignant. OpnBeat by [Hiro Akihabara] focuses on something different: simplicity. There are few buttons, the design and code are optimized …read more Continue reading ISD1700 Based Lo-Fi Sampler
For most of us, an 8-bit microcomputer means one of the home computers which set so many of us on our way back in the 1980s. But this ignores an …read more Continue reading Sequencing The Vintage Way
One of our favorite musical hackers, [Look Mum No Computer] is getting dangerously close to building a computer. His quest was to create a unique drum machine, inspired by a …read more Continue reading Rope Core Drum Machine
We’ll always have a soft spot for circuit sculpture projects; anything with components supported on nice tidy rows of brass wires always captures our imagination. But add to that a …read more Continue reading Sight and Sound Combine in This Engaging Synthesizer Sculpture
Some projects you come across simply leave you in awe when you look at the thought and the resulting amount of work that went into it, not only for the …read more Continue reading LMN-3: Putting The ‘OP’ In Open Source Synthesizers
If you ever been curious how old-school jukeboxes work, it’s all electromechanical and no computers. In a pair of videos, [Technology Connections] takes us through a detailed dive into the …read more Continue reading Jukebox Electromechanical Automation Explained