The Chipophone — an 8-Bit Chiptune Organ 84
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."
Re:Blasphemous (Score:3, Informative)
Has everyone completely lost their value of history in this 'throwaway' culture?
Other people are making lamphades from vintage sheet music. [associatedcontent.com]
Re:ahh (Score:2, Informative)
That's not an electric piano.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_piano [wikipedia.org]
The chipophone is clearly a synth. It doesn't create the sounds mechanically, unlike an electric piano.
Re:Blasphemous (Score:3, Informative)
Re:scandinavian again. (Score:4, Informative)
The whole geographical point here is the Scands mountain range, that runs north-south in Sweden and Norway. Hence, Scandinavian peninsula.
Whether the "cultural" argument is valid is a bit contentious -- a lot of the typically Swedish-speaking Nordists who are objectively speaking a bunch of Swedish imperialists certainly want to extend the concept of Scandinavia to include Finland ("because it is good for us").
Personally, although we all live a in typical Western European democracy with similar political leanings, I find Scandinavia to be culturally different. And of course it is linguistically different too; it's just that for some weird political reason, Finnish never is allowed to "count" in these kinds of considerations. After all, we're a bilingual country and all that, and in the future Swedish is going to be the mother tongue of all of us...