The Chipophone — an 8-Bit Chiptune Organ

July 30, 2010

adunk writes “Linus Åkesson has built an 8-bit synthesizer inside an old electric organ case. ‘All the original tone-generating parts have been disconnected, and the keys, pedals, knobs and switches rerouted to a microcontroller which transforms them into MIDI signals. Those are then parsed by a second microcontroller, which acts as a synthesizer.’ The Chipophone is perfect for playing classics such as the Super Mario Bros in-game music or Rob Hubbard’s Spellbound. A description of the build process, with photos, is available.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.

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Commercial Illusions

August 23, 2009

I’ve been looking up a bunch of different companies’ logos and finding all the little illusions they hide in them, so I decided to list a few here. Fedex is famous for this logo, most notably the arrow between the E and the X.  I’ve found a few more, but they are arguable.  There’s a [...]

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