[sdiy] rec. for a microcontroller to make stupid lo-fi atari noises

[John Luciani]

On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 8:38 PM, Horton <horton.andrew at gmail.com> wrote:
> I've never messed with a microcontroller - in fact, I have no interest
> in programming and love the IC/resistor/pot/cap world! But I'd like to
> make a little microcontroller circuit to make stupid, inferior,
> ignorant Atari lo-fi freakout sounds and riffs! My big inspiration is
> the 1-bit groovebox - http://web.media.mit.edu/~nvawter/projects/1bit/
> - and I might just make one of those instead of trying to roll my own
> - but I'd like to mess around too with digitally generating freakout
> stoopid noises. The reasoning for a microcontroller and not just
> something like an Atari Punk Console is that I want it to be more
> programmable with riffs or even as programmable as the one-bit
> groovebox linked above.
>

If you have no interest in programming I would go with an ATmega168
and use the Arduino tools. The Arduino tools provide a java frontend
for the C compiler (gcc) and a high-level library. The tools run on
Windows, Linux and Mac are easy to install and use. A lot of
non-programmers use these tools.

Information about the Arduino board that I make is at
http://tinyurl.com/5rfmrz  In the "Application Hints" are some
simple software examples. Unfortunately no audio or synth
examples yet.

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