Creating a physical music product in the digital age can be a rewarding way to connect with listeners. Here’s how I built a series of custom USB thumb drives containing my music, a self-contained HTML player, and visual artwork—perfect for…
Welcome to this step-by-step walkthrough of how we created a beautiful, responsive USB music playlist viewer using only web technologies. We’ll highlight each transformation stage and show the exact prompts that guided us to the final product. 🎬 Intro We…
My retro computer is an SC126 designed by Stephen C. Cousins. It has two serial ports. I am using 1 serial port to interface with my retro amber monitor. That leaves the second one open to use as a way…
I once owned a Roland JV-1010 sound module. I bought it in 1999 to go along with my FP-9 Stage Piano (which I still use in my home studio). I really loved the sounds on the JV-1010, so last year,…
I’ve been having difficulty getting my Mac connected to a wireless printer. No matter how I configured it, it would always enter paused mode whenever I printed a document. It turns out that all I had to do was connect…
About seven or eight years ago, I started down a path to create my own synthesizer using discrete electronic parts like CMOS chips, resistors, capacitors, and the like. Early on, I discovered the “Lunetta” synthesizer, made from 40106 CMOS chips….
I am a big fan of retro homebrew computers. I have a few kits that I ordered from Tindie.com based on the RC2014 model (SC126). To keep it completely retro, I bought a classic amber terminal so I could have…
I have been working with my FPGA boards to attempt to display a test pattern on a VGA monitor. For my experiments, I bought a small VGA monitor*. It has a VGA input, as well as a HDMI input, so…
There are infinite concepts, but when one applies finite constraints to those concepts, one can accomplish miracles. This is the foundation of life as I perceive it. The constraints of words challenge us to think about the world a specific…
Writing C programs for speech on the SC126 (RC2014 Compatible) with a SPO256-AL2 Speech Synthesis Chip I spent some time yesterday working with ChatGPT to assist me in writing a moderately complex (based on my personal experience) C program. The…