Spellbound

Spellbound, composed by Rob Hubbard in 1986, performed on the Chipophone. Read more.

• lft_chipophone_spellbound (Xvid, 75 MB)

• Linus Akesson - Chipophone - Spellbound (MP3, 4.4 MB)

Posted Wednesday 21-Jul-2010 21:42, 16 comments.

Making the Chipophone

It all started when a good friend of mine asked me if I wanted an old electronic organ. He had bought it in a thrift store some years ago, but had now realized that it would remain untouched in his cellar forever unless he could find a new home for it. I accepted the gift on the condition that I could do whatever I wanted with it, in terms of modifications and experiments. Read more.

Posted Wednesday 21-Jul-2010 21:42, 101 comments.

The Chipophone

The Chipophone is a homemade 8-bit synthesizer, especially suited for live chiptune playing. It has been built inside an old electronic organ. Read more.

• lft_chipophone_presentation (Xvid, 113 MB)

Posted Wednesday 21-Jul-2010 21:42, 112 comments.

Phasor, high quality video

I am very grateful to Barta Zoli from Hungary, for building a replica of Phasor, making a high quality video capture and allowing me to share it with you on this site (and on youtube). Read more.

• lft_phasor_capture (High quality capture by Barta Zoli, 720x576, 476 MB)

Posted Tuesday 22-Jun-2010 16:40, 0 comments.

Beagleboard stable USB EHCI hack

Occasionally, the USB EHCI controller on a Rev C3 Beagleboard stops working until the system is rebooted. It is usually triggered by heavy traffic, e.g. due to a WLAN dongle or a USB thumbdrive. It was apparently fixed properly in Rev C4, but if you're stuck with a C3 board the following hack may solve the problem for you. Read more.

Posted Thursday 13-May-2010 15:35, 0 comments.

Linkstar, pagerank peddlers?

I was contacted by a company called Linkstar (link-star.co.uk). They wanted to place text ads on my site, for a reasonable sum of money. Fair enough, but I researched them and found some discouraging information. Read more.

Posted Wednesday 5-May-2010 18:10, 3 comments.

The Swan

In an attempt to squeeze as much emotion as possible into a tiny chip, I managed to fit Camille Saint-Saëns' The Swan into 480 (out of 1024) bytes of ROM on an ATtiny15. The microcontroller runs at 1.6 MHz and provides 32 bytes of RAM (actually registers). Read more.

• Linus Akesson - The Swan (Video, 1280x720, Ogg Theora/Vorbis, 115 MB)

• Linus Akesson - The Swan (Soundtrack, MP3, 2.8 MB)

• lft-swan-src (Source code, 4 kB)

• lft-swan-cad (Schematics, PDF, 12 kB)

Posted Monday 26-Apr-2010 16:12, 6 comments.