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

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89 points·jamescgrant··12 comments

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

Edited: typos

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

This has been around on the Internet for many years.

https://xkcd.com/1053/

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

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