Nintendo shipped the original Game Boy in 1989 with a sound chip small enough to live on batteries for hours, and that same chip is now running a full drum machine. Drum Machina Go!, shortened to DMGo!, treats those four voices as a step sequencer you can carry in a coat pocket. Two of them […]
James Brown, the New Zealand maker better known as Ancient, has a habit of pulling forgotten display ideas out of history and making them do things their inventors never saw coming. His newest machine takes the Nipkow scanning drum that Paul Gottlieb Nipkow patented in 1884 for an “electric telescope” and turns it into a […]