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The core ethos of “hacking” is usually interpreted as modifying something for a use that it wasn’t originally built for. Plenty of builds are modifications or improvements on existing technology, …read more Continue reading Custom Piano Tickles the Ivories
There are a number of ways that musicians can get their instruments to sing. Sampled vocals can be loaded into a synth, you can use a vocoder, or you can stick a tube in your mouth and run it to an effects pedal. Now Casio has developed a keyboard that… Continue reading Casio keyboard turns your text into pop-inspired vocal harmonies
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
For his latest delightfully retro project, Swedish designer Love Hultén has collaborated with digital artist Lirona for an interactive synthesizer called the synth#boi that’s not only limited to just 10 units, but is being offered for sale as a physica… Continue reading Retro-cool interactive visualizer offered for sale as a physical NFT
Those of us who were around in the late 70s and into the 80s might remember the Speak & Spell, a children’s toy with a remarkable text-to-speech synthesizer. While it …read more Continue reading Classic 80s Text-To-Speech on Classic 80s Hardware
What’s better than an Atari Punk Console synthesizer? How about four Atari Punk Console synthesizers. And what better way to present them but as brass wire art sculptures. We’d have …read more Continue reading Kinetic Synth-Kebab Sculpture Plays Punk Sequentially
While [MicroKits]’ MicroSynth is an all-analog synthesizer that fits on a business card-sized PCB, and he actually does use it to break the ice in business meetings, that’s not really …read more Continue reading MicroSynth Mixes All-Analog Fun with a Little Business
Dealing with breakdowns is certainly nothing new for drivers; plenty of us have had our ride die in mid-flight, and experienced the tense moment when it happens in traffic. But …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: September 26, 2021
A popular tool in chiptune software like LSDJ allows the user to draw a waveform and use it as the basis for a wavetable synth. It’s fun and it can …read more Continue reading Touchscreen Makes For A Neat Wavetable Synth
Over the last year or so, Sam Battle of YouTube channel Look Mum No Computer has been gathering together interesting tech and gadgetry from the past and musical curiosities of his own design for a collection known as This Museum Is (Not) Obsolete, whic… Continue reading Museum celebrates obsolete tech and oddball synth creations