Reviving a Maplin 4600 DIY Synthesizer From the 1970s - A piece of musical history is the Maplin 4600, a DIY electronic music synthesizer ... - https://hackaday.com/2025/03/19/reviving-a-maplin-4600-diy-synthesizer-from-the-1970s/ #classichacks #musicalhacks #refurbished #synthesizer #maplin4600 #vintage #synth #diy

Repairing a Legendary Elka Synthex Analog Synthesizer - Handy diagnostic LEDs on the side of the tone generator boards. (Credit: Mend it M... - https://hackaday.com/2025/03/17/repairing-a-legendary-elka-synthex-analog-synthesizer/ #analogsynthesizer #musicalhacks #repairhacks

Probably The Simplest Sequencing Synth - With inexpensive microntrollers capable of the most impressive feats of sound synt... - https://hackaday.com/2025/03/15/probably-the-simplest-sequencing-synth/ #classichacks #musicalhacks #synthesiser #cmos

On Sensory Weaver Building - What is a sensory weaver? [Curiosiate] tells us: “A device which takes sensory dat... - https://hackaday.com/2025/03/02/on-sensory-weaver-building/ #sensorysubstitution #linearactuators #linearactuator #sensoryweaving #thermalimaging #classichacks #musicalhacks

Why Are Cassette and CD Players So Big Now? - The early 2000s were the halcyon days of physical media. While not as svelte as MP... - https://hackaday.com/2025/03/01/why-are-cassette-and-cd-players-so-big-now/ #audiocassette #musicalhacks #compactdisk #bluetooth #cassette #cdplayer #tapedeck #battery #stereo #audio #music #tape #car #cds

Taking Cues From a Gramophone To Make a Better Marble Music Machine https://hackaday.com/2025/02/25/taking-cues-from-a-gramophone-to-make-a-better-marble-music-machine/ #centrifugalgoverner #flyballgovernor #marblemachine #speedgovernor #MusicalHacks #speedcontrol #wintergatan #music

Hearing What the Bats Hear - [Iftah] has been exploring the sounds beyond what we can hear, recording ultrasoun... - https://hackaday.com/2025/02/11/hearing-what-the-bats-hear/ #highfrequency #musicalhacks #ultrasound #recording #science #music

Shellcode over MIDI? Bad Apple on a PSR-E433, Kinda - If hacking on consumer hardware is about figuring out what it can do, and pushing ... - https://hackaday.com/2025/01/23/shellcode-over-midi-bad-apple-on-a-psr-e433-kinda/ #reverseengineering #musicalhacks #shellcode #badapple #yamaha #video #midi

A Ribbon Microphone Is Harder Than You Think - There’s a mystique around ribbon microphones due to their being expensive studio-g... - https://hackaday.com/2025/01/22/a-ribbon-microphone-is-harder-than-you-think/ #ribbonmicrophone #classichacks #musicalhacks #microphone #audio

Family Bass Is Musical NES Magic - The Family BASIC keyboard was a peripheral that was built for programming on the N... - https://hackaday.com/2025/01/21/family-bass-is-musical-nes-magic/ #familycomputer #nintendohacks #musicalhacks #famicom #bass #nes

Cyber Walkman Does It In Style - One of the best things about adulthood is that finally we get to, in most cases, a... - https://hackaday.com/2025/01/21/cyber-walkman-does-it-in-style/ #microcontrollers #musicalhacks #cyberpunk #unihiker #ssd1306 #walkman #oled

Packing Even More Features Into a Classic Radio - When it comes to hacking niches, breathing new life into vintage devices is always... - https://hackaday.com/2025/01/17/packing-even-more-features-into-a-classic-radio/ #digitalaudiohacks #musicalhacks #ipsdisplay #nfcreader #ili9431 #m5stack #teensy #i2s #lcd #nfc

Piezo Buzzer Makes a Drum - The humble piezo disc buzzer is much more than something that makes tinny beeps in... - https://hackaday.com/2025/01/15/piezo-buzzer-makes-a-drum/ #musicalhacks #piezobuzzer #parts #drum

Cassette Tape Plays MP3s - Cassette tapes were a major way of listening to (and recording) music througout th... - https://hackaday.com/2025/01/06/cassette-tape-plays-mp3s/ #musicalhacks #bluetooth #cassette #tapedeck #battery #stereo #audio #music #tape #car

The Mystery of the Messed-Up Hammond X5 - [Filip] got his hands on a sweet old Hammond X5 organ, but it had one crucial prob... - https://hackaday.com/2024/12/24/the-mystery-of-the-messed-up-hammond-x5/ #topoctavegenerator #musicalhacks #repairhacks #synthesizer #repair #organ

Calling Pink Floyd - [Corelatus] said recently that “someone” asked them to identify the phone signals ... - https://hackaday.com/2024/12/24/calling-pink-floyd/ #phonephreaking #musicalhacks #phonehacks #pinkfloyd #dtmf #ss5

The Math Behind the Music of the 80s - Although there might have been other music produced or recorded in the 1980s, we m... - https://hackaday.com/2024/12/11/the-math-behind-the-music-of-the-80s/ #musicalhacks #synthesizer #instrument #synthpop #yamaha #1980s #music #synth #dx-7 #dx7

The Math Behind the Music of the 80s https://hackaday.com/2024/12/11/the-math-behind-the-music-of-the-80s/ #MusicalHacks #synthesizer #instrument #synthpop #1980's #yamaha #music #synth #dx-7 #dx7

Minichord Wants To Help You Find Rad Chord Progressions - If you’re good at music theory, you can probably find all the chords and progressi... - https://hackaday.com/2024/11/28/minichord-wants-to-help-you-find-rad-chord-progressions/ #musicalhacks #minichord #music #sound #synth

Pi Pico Lays Down the Groove - From the 60s to perhaps the mid-00s, the path to musical stardom was essentially s... - https://hackaday.com/2024/10/30/pi-pico-lays-down-the-groove/ #musicalhacks #drummachine #raspberrypi #groovebox #livemusic #sequencer #pipico #loop