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Video: miniAtmegatron Case: Assembly & Overview

Watch me assemble the case for the Soulsby Synthesizers miniAtmegatron and give a quick overview.

Make this helpful Overhead Camera Rig using Open Source Hardware
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Video: Make this helpful Overhead Camera Rig using Open Source Hardware

Whether it’s for electronics/crafts tutorials, or selling on eBay, Etsy, etc., shooting overhead video and pics can be a pain, until now!

Make the World’s cheapest MIDI Tester
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Video: Make the World’s cheapest MIDI Tester

A quick and dirty (and cheap) MIDI tester.

Video: I add 10-turn pots to my variable power supply for more precision control
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Video: I add 10-turn pots to my variable power supply for more precision control

My bench top power supply only had single turn potentiometers, so I added 10-turn pots for more control.

A first look at the Soulsby Synthesizers miniAtmegatron.
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Video: I unbox, assemble, and play the new $39 open source, 8bit/chiptune miniAtmegatron synth kit

A first look at the Soulsby Synthesizers miniAtmegatron.

Displaying animations on an oscilloscope from sound waves; and a Kickstarter audio/visual album.

Can you create animations on an oscilloscope from sound waves? I had been looking for something like this to display a clock or other graphics on my oscilloscope. During my research I stumbled across some YouTube videos of people doing the same thing, only some of these people were taking the…

Drum8, 8-Bit Drum Machine Sampler for the Apple II

Riccardo Macri has written Drum8, an 8-bit sample playback drum machine for the Apple II. In the early 2000s I had quite a vintage computer collection. TRS-80 CoCo2, Apple IIe, Amiga 500, Commodore 64, a couple Atari XL series, and a couple others that I can’t recall. Sadly, I had to…

Circuit Bending featured at TEDx

Valéry Sandor gave a talk and live performance at TEDxDunkerque in France. While I don’t speak French this is pretty cool that circuit bending is being featured on such a big platform as TEDx. Some cool French language toys are shown, as well as a box with what looks like…

Venetian Snares demos new glitchy analog drum module!

Dr. Snarold Snarington (Aaron Funk of Venetian Snares) shows a quick demo of the new Mutant Machine module from hexinverter.net. This drum module is described as having a “microcontroller-free analog percussion synthesis engine.” They go on to say, “The Mutant Machine is a dynamic analog instrument capable of generating a wide…

Moogfest $70 circuit bending challenge

Don’t forget, the deadline for the 4th Annual Moog Circuit Bending Challenge is Midnight EST on February 23rd, 2014.  Videos of some of the entries can be found here.

Excellent live circuit bent set from Mystery Circuits

Mystery Circuits (Mike Walters) just posted this excellent live set from their BENT04 performance. This footage was taken from the Bent 2004 documentary by Derek Sajbel.

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