The Chipophone – A homemade 8-bit synthesizer (2010) (linusakesson.net)

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Nr7 10y ago ↗

This is the same guy who won the Underhanded C competition earlier this week: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11032542

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b6 10y ago ↗

I'm really in awe of this guy. He does so much amazing work.

If you like the Chipophone, you have to check out the little synths he made for Teenage Engineering: http://www.linusakesson.net/music/po-2x/index.php

catbird 10y ago ↗

Ah nice, I had just seen a video of the Commando theme being played on the new pocket operators[1] and it reminded me of the Chipophone. No wonder it seemed familiar...

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihjcUuGttKU

joshontheweb 10y ago ↗

I had no idea he was behind the new PO lineup. Makes sense. What a nerdy baller.

sdk77 10y ago ↗

I watched the videos and those are absolutely amazing. Ordered a PO-20 'Arcade' unit. Can't wait to start playing with it.

mproud 10y ago ↗

This has been around on the Internet for many years.

noir_lord 10y ago ↗

https://xkcd.com/1053/

dang 10y ago ↗

Indeed it has: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Chipophone&sort=byDate&dateRan.... We added 2010 to the title.

sklivvz1971 10y ago ↗

This really amazes me, great job. Much preferred to the "live coding" link of yesterday which I found a bit shallow.

imaginenore 10y ago ↗

Can't you just get any MIDI keyboard, hook it up to a PC and have any sound you want, including chiptune?

zhemao 10y ago ↗

Yeah, but that's no fun at all. Plus, the organ has a bunch of functions that piano keyboards don't, like two separate keyboards and pedals.

moron4hire 10y ago ↗

There was a time when making things like this was my dream. Then I realized 15 years of experience programming didn't translate to any experience with a soldering iron. That didn't discourage me from learning more about electronics, but it did change my focus on how I might start entrepreneurial ventures.