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As you all know I like to use my own recorded samples in my music. I went out a lot with my portable audio recorder to sample ocean sounds, ...

 The last board I had to do is the Hardware PCB. This is basically the 'human' interface of the synthesizer. It holds all the knobs ...

Yesterday the German Music Club Schallwende released their 23rd sampler CD called 'SchallPlatte'. They released this CD only to the...

 The next board I made was the IO board. This board takes care of the communication of the Deckard's dream with the outside world. The a...

 And here is a picture of the final assembly. I put the speaker back in place. I created an USB connection at the bottom of the case so I ca...

After soldering all the capacitors on only one thing is left and that are all the IC sockets. After that I did a careful inspection for the ...

After getting the display to work I started with the motors. In the left upper corner of the bread board you can see the motor controller I ...

Now that the BorkHavn CDs are in also the first reactions are coming in. This is always the nicest part about releasing an album. As you mig...

And then the display arrived. Time for some tesing. I also switched to an ESP32, since it has more CPU power and more Inputs and Outputs. I ...

My girlfriend and myself love gadget like I stated before. We especially like robots as well and Wall-E is one of our favorites. I started l...

 If you follow my blog you know I like to build my own synthesizers. Unfortunately due to my divorce I had to sell a lot. Also some of my DI...

  After the R2D2 project I thought to do the same with an HAL9000 replica from the movie '2001 A Space Odyssey'. It is an Artificial...

Another nice project I did last year was operating our R2D2. It is actually a (useless) clock that also made some sounds like it does in the...

Long ago I 3D printed a Pixar light. Recently I added a bicycle light to it so it actually works :) Looks nice I think. I'm currently wo...

Now that BorkHavn is finished I started working on new music for my new solo albums. Yes multiple! The last 7 years I recorded quite some mu...

I just released the album BorkHavn together with Ron Boots, but I'm already working as well on new solo material. In the last 7 years s...

Today is the day. After 7 years I finally have an official release again. 8 years ago Ron Boots and myself went on a family holiday in Denma...

  I'm sure you all remember the famous 'Apollo Studio' pictures that still roam the internet. Well that studio is gone :( As you...

  Groove Unlimited (my record label) already put BorkHavn on BandCamp. You can listen to some excerpts of some of the tracks. You can also b...

  I was asked by the German Electronic Music Club Schallwende to submit a track for their upcoming SchallPlatte 23 sampler album. They norma...