For the last few weeks I've been working on a bit of prototype hardware - a low-end Eurorack digital oscillator based on the new low-cost STM32C542 MCU. I've published the hardware and firmware sources for that on Github: github.com/emeb/Cheep4

The internet‘s ruthless efficiency killed little shops run by old men where they would find you a specific screw, bolt etc from their dusty boxes out the back. Now the internet has gone to shit, you google that specific item and get shown a big pile of random loose screws. Bring back old man shops.

I'm pleased to announce that the Synthesis Technology E352 and E370 oscillators are now available from VCV Rack. These new plugins faithfully emulate the original hardware versions of the modules using the DSP source code I wrote. Find more about them here: library.vcvrack.com/SynthesisTec...

Jack White appreciation day. That is all.

If you see this, quote with a robot that isn’t from “Star Wars”, “Star Trek”, “Dr Who”, or “Transformers”

NoiseTheorem@noisetheorem.bsky.social · last yr.

If you see this, quote with a robot that isn’t from “Star Wars”, “Star Trek”, “Dr Who”, or “Transformers”

It bothers me that Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D minor is invariably associated with horror/occult. I grew up as the child of an organ builder and in my early experience that was just another piece by good ol' Bach and it brings happy memories. Sad that it's tainted as weird.

I see that we're in the process of moving beyond the beautiful moment in time when value was created for the shareholders.

Anyone ever notice this?

I'm saddened to report that my friend and colleague Paul Schreiber passed away this morning. He was a consummate engineer with deep roots in music and technology and worked on the TRS-80, the Realistic Concert-Mate MG-1 synth, the MOTM modular system and many Eurorack modules. He will be missed.

Yesterday we had a wet weather system (first one in months) come thru the Phoenix area. It dumped some snow in the high country, including the Four Peaks area northeast of town. We took a drive up that way this afternoon and caught this panorama.

Here's some beautiful experimental ambient music from Adam Schabtach adamschabtach.bandcamp.com/album/unassu...

Unassuming, by Adam Schabtach

4 track album

adamschabtach.bandcamp.com

Rewatched "The Lost Boys" tonight. Found myself identifying more with Barnard Hughes' Grandpa character this time than I would have expected the first time I saw it. Gotta say though - that's some weapons-grade 80s nostalgia.

Rewatched "Only Lovers Left Alive" - music, books, retro, vampires, civilization decaying... A lot to take in, a lot to enjoy.

Somewhere in my neighborhood a dog is barking incessantly. The reverb on that sound is amazing - far away with a really long tail. That'd be a good audio effect.

Just finished @scalzi.com's "The Last Emperox". Damned if that Acknowledgement doesn't hit hard. Here we are five years later about to jump back into that same frying pan.

Centurylink - tell me you want me to cancel my service without saying you want me to cancel my service.

I was flying out of Seattle yesterday and caught this image of Mt. Rainier

Wow - under 200k. A little late to the party, but not bad.

The deserts of central Arizona are being overrun by an invasive species - Globe Chamomile aka "Stinknet" was accidentally introduced from southern Africa. There's no known way to control it aside from herbicides that cause collateral damage. I don't think we'll win this one.

Watching MiB II intro where Serleena's ship face-plants in a NYC park then rights itself with three spindly legs. Recent lunar landers needed that tech.

My newest novel, BLADE, is out today. BLADE is the 4th in a series of five novels that I call the Inverted Frontier—space-faring #sciencefiction, set in the far, far future. I think of the series as sense-of-wonder fiction...

NBC showing the 1st Harry Potter movie tonight. Lotsa pharma ads. I guess they're admitting that it's not a movie for kids now - it's for old folks who remember when they were kids.

This 2000 interview with Paula Borsook (Cyberselfish) perfectly sums up/predicts everything that's happened with Silicon Valley in the past quarter century. www.salon.com/2000/05/04/b...

This so much - been fighting similar issues on an elderly relative's email account for the last few months and it just never stops.

Micah@rincewind.run · 3y ago

if I have unsubscribed from all your email lists, and you invent a brand new one and subscribe me to it, I should be legally allowed to drop the person responsible out a very high window

Just saw an ad for a new flavor of soda "co-created with AI". Nope. Would you like it better if it were co-created with Skynet?

My buddy Michael Welling of Qwerty Embedded has a new product campaign running over at Groupgets - an RP2040 in a 12-pin PMOD form-factor. A perfect way to add a dual-core ARM to any FPGA devboard with PMOD support. More here: groupgets.com/campaigns/1272

If you ask this MMBT3904 transistor what its name is...

Want to make noises with a $0.20 Microcontroller? Here's a full writeup, including hardware design and firmware source: https://github.com/emeb/cheep3a (Hint - it'll cost a bit more than $0.20 all told)

Assembled PCBs back from JLCPCB - they did the SMT parts and I added the rest (pots, jacks, connectors, etc). It's a prototype Eurorack audio generator based on a CH32V003 MCU driving a PT8211 stereo DAC. Three CV inputs, one gate input and two audio outputs. A button and RGB LED for mode control.