Gameboy linked hardware sequencer

Posted Dec 21st 2005 11:00AM by Eliot Phillips
Filed under: gameboy hacks

Thanks to Create Digital Music for pointing me to the awesome work of Gijs Geikes. This is his latest sequencer creation. It is designed to get its clock signal from Little Sound Dj running on a Gameboy. The sequencer controls plugin modules that are attached to a parallel port. Here's a great sample of the output. He's got schematics on his site, which are easy to comprehend when compared to his bizarro board etching. One of the plugins is an earlier project: The Tape Sequencer. Have a listen to that too.

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1. i recently took apart my old Gameboy Color and noticed that at the top, there are two LED's. i was just wondering if the Gameboy Color was originally meant to be able to send and recieve data remotely via its LED's. if it is able to do this, how do i find the program code in the gameboy so that i can enable transferring data with its LED's?

Posted at 3:08PM on Sep 3rd 2006 by Jeffrey

2. hackaweek

Posted at 3:08PM on Sep 3rd 2006 by mirthless smile

3. Peter from createdigitalmusic here -- Gijs sent me a new link that at least contains the MP3s: http://plot.bek.no/~gijs/instruments/Seq05/ . . . and the full link should be back up January 1. Guess Game Boy sequencers proved more popular than he expected! Viva chiptune! ;-)

Posted at 3:08PM on Sep 3rd 2006 by Peter kirn

4. baljit@netpowersoft.com

Posted at 3:08PM on Sep 3rd 2006 by trade-a-loan

5. eliot, could you please coral cache sites before linking them on the home page? this looks really interesting

Posted at 3:08PM on Sep 3rd 2006 by carpespasm

6. usually I'll cache the geocities sites, but it is always a gamble with the rest of the web. Are the MP3s working? They are coral links. You can check CDM's coverage for a few more photos. http://createdigitalmusic.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1066&Itemid=44 http://createdigitalmusic.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=748&Itemid=44

Posted at 3:08PM on Sep 3rd 2006 by Eliot Phillips

7. That board's etching looks wild. This is really neat, damn bandwidth. I have some of the _old_ gameboys and carts. Maybe I should start screwing around with them....

Posted at 3:08PM on Sep 3rd 2006 by The tech Department

8. Bah, the mp3's don't work...

Posted at 3:08PM on Sep 3rd 2006 by Chris Rybitski

9. not related to hack, sorry: anyone have any links on some hacks for a dead iPod? anything would be cool: revival, mod, making it into a new thingy, anything would be cool. thanks :)

Posted at 3:08PM on Sep 3rd 2006 by Dash Dingo

10. Looks like he used up his 5MB/month already.

Posted at 3:08PM on Sep 3rd 2006 by pocketbrain

11. wait, hack the dead iPod into a dead badger...for unholy music streaming via AirTunes that being said, you can mod it to house something else. people are hacking Altoids cases to house iPods? How about hacking iPods to hold Altoids?

Posted at 3:08PM on Sep 3rd 2006 by coreycubed

12. first thing i'd do with a dead ipod is see if i could recover the rotary encoder. very useful, that

Posted at 3:08PM on Sep 3rd 2006 by dioxide

13. http://forums.ilounge.com/showthread.php?s=2fd6c696b3b1d492f1096f35f55d65b5&threadid=93059&highlight=fdisk dash dingo this has worked for a mate of mine when he droped his mini a few times, lol

Posted at 3:08PM on Sep 3rd 2006 by dan

14. oh gameboy sequencers. If you want to hear some awesome music using only what's shown above, check out Nintendo Teenage Robot.

Posted at 3:08PM on Sep 3rd 2006 by grayskies

15. Yipes, I've hosed another poor mate's bandwidth. Anyway, stay tuned, I'm going to try to re-host this on my site . . . I can handle the load, I think. Too bad; the music is great! Peter

Posted at 3:08PM on Sep 3rd 2006 by Peter kirn

16. Dead already.. looks hackalicious though

Posted at 3:08PM on Sep 3rd 2006 by anon

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