A game in the process of being played on a console with no users? Is that what you mean? I'm not too familiar with Street Fighter to know if that's the case, in my eyes it could be a display game automatically playing.
Street Fighter II is a classic of the fighter genre and is the principal example of the 6 button fighter.
If the marketing rendering was as closely attentive to detail as the item themselves there are plenty of 4 button fighters that could have been used. It’s so obvious that I wouldn’t be surprised if it is an intentional troll.
I see multiple Korg Monologues or Minilogues and a Teenage Engineering Modular 400 hiding in plain sight, but I don't recognize any other synthesizers.
I wonder how much of this is functional, and to what extent electronics were modified or reverse engineered to get them to work in unintended ways. At any rate, it's impressive work.
If you click into the individual projects it says what most of them are. Lots of different gear blended together, plus some custom circuits. I assume you actually lose functionality compared with the source gear, since some of it involves hard-wiring things together in ways that you can't mess with. Still, I do like an opinionated piece of equipment
That's funny, because I was thinking the opposite. One of my first electronics projects years ago was an interactive museum piece that played audio and tested people's comprehension of some material they had just learned. It looked almost exactly like one of these things, and really want that hard to build, even as a beginner just hacking things out.
While I was already familiar with Hulten‘s work, I had not seen some of these more recent pieces. The custom commission for a band combining a Korg Minilogue and a Roland TR-08 (and some kind of tape delay?) is absolutely brilliant.
Bulky, kitsch and no very appealing to me. For some reasons these photos are heavily used in scam ads and fraudulent internet shops.
And completely misleading title. There aren't "custom made synths", they are broadly commercially available synths put in custom enclosures or cases, that's very different.
If I took a Macbook and put it in a wooden case, I wouldn't be calling that computer "custom made".
Currently on the front page of HN is a “cyberdeck” that is a raspberry pi neatly fitted into a pelican case. I’d count that as a custom made computer, just as much as any pc assembled from components off newegg.
With synths it’s a little more out of place, since the majority of “custom made” synths involved soldering, and there are plenty with fully original circuits. But I still consider what he’s doing as “custom made” as the modular synth I made for myself by sticking prebuilt modules into a case
If you like this stuff, check out what Look Mum No Computer[0] is doing. He makes crazy electronic instruments, including a wall of synthesizers and a Furby organ. He's also opening a retro computing museum that looks super interesting. Super cool dude.
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If the marketing rendering was as closely attentive to detail as the item themselves there are plenty of 4 button fighters that could have been used. It’s so obvious that I wouldn’t be surprised if it is an intentional troll.
To be honest I haven't played Street Fighter much so I didn't know.
That, and when I play arcade games I normally have a full QWERTY keyboard...
I wonder how much of this is functional, and to what extent electronics were modified or reverse engineered to get them to work in unintended ways. At any rate, it's impressive work.
Have to admit I've never been a fan of mid-century, and this seems like a curious reinvention.
It's the TE aesthetic. Nice if you like it, but (I'd guess) insanely pricey for what you get.
https://youtu.be/oIFA7msO_x0
Hardest part was getting all of those lights and buttons to be addressable from a single Arduino.
https://www.t-rex-effects.com/replicator
If you want to really appreciate it, watch one of his videos like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHksi9lvuHM
I laughed and winced at this delicious travesty: https://www.lovehulten.com/apple1.html (If you lived the Warring Eight Bit Period, you'll understand.)
And completely misleading title. There aren't "custom made synths", they are broadly commercially available synths put in custom enclosures or cases, that's very different.
If I took a Macbook and put it in a wooden case, I wouldn't be calling that computer "custom made".
With synths it’s a little more out of place, since the majority of “custom made” synths involved soldering, and there are plenty with fully original circuits. But I still consider what he’s doing as “custom made” as the modular synth I made for myself by sticking prebuilt modules into a case
The title on HN is written by mattkevan, so if it’s misleading that’s on them.
If the photos are used in frauds, that’s on the fraudsters.
If you are unable to enjoy deliberately kitschy custom-made cases because they’re kitschy, that’s on you.
Personally I find these creations absolutely delightful. Maybe there’s something else in life you can find joy in.
[0] https://youtube.com/c/LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER