http://blog.gg8.se/wordpress Explore, modify, create (This is the blog of Gameboy musician nitro2k01) Sun, 04 Mar 2012 09:08:25 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This article was originally posted on September 19th, 2009 and has now been revised to use BGB instead no$gmb as a debugger. However, the things described here are mostly irrelevant now, because the standard method of installing a backlight these days is with a biversion, i.e. a hardware inversion. It ... http://blog.gg8.se/wordpress/2012/03/04/how-to-patch-lsdj-to-use-an-inverted-palette/ Everybody is so negative about SOPA and PIPA and ACTA. Nobody sees the opportunities! In the US legal system, plaintiffs who can prove willful infringement are entitled to up to $150,000 per work in damages. Let's make a conservative estimate that a million Americans have downloaded 100 songs each. This ... http://blog.gg8.se/wordpress/2012/01/28/a-modest-copyright-proposal/ As has already been established, Korg monotribe is MIDI capable. Howver, it is still limited with regard to certain things, such as being able to use more than 8 seqeuncer steps for the synth part or using a filter envelope separately from and LFO. All things that should be very ... http://blog.gg8.se/wordpress/2011/12/04/korg-monotribe-firmware-20-analysis/ I recently bought an IKEA spotlight. (JANSJÖ Clamp spotlight, product number 80163192) For fun I tried cupping my hand around it in a dark room to make the light shine through my hand. I could see my own veins. Pretty cool. I used to this with flashlights as a kid, ... http://blog.gg8.se/wordpress/2011/11/25/fun-with-a-led-spotlight-a-camera-my-hand-and-some-fruit/ An untitled collaboration between Simon Mattisson and Marcus Olsson. A Gameboy in a dark room is overclocked until it crashes. I'm almost getting Saw vibes from this. The Gameboy is modded by NeX and is actually being overclocked. The sound is produced by Shitwave. Untitled from _-_- on Vimeo. http://blog.gg8.se/wordpress/2011/10/18/untitled-installation-featuring-shitwave/ Monotribe has jacks on the back for sync in and out. The sync output outputs 15 ms 5V pulses, which can either be rising or falling. (There's a setting for this.) The sync input can also trigger on either a positive or a negative edge. (There's a setting for this ... http://blog.gg8.se/wordpress/2011/09/28/syncing-monotribe-to-lsdj-using-the-sync-jack-no-midi/ Made by a Japanese person using the name air_variable. He's using an XBee for wireless serial communication. This just gives you a serial line, which can be interfaced over USB. This is not real MIDI, but you can use a serial to MIDI converter for this. For example, BlipBox MIDI ... http://blog.gg8.se/wordpress/2011/09/10/wireless-monotribe-midi-almost/ Introduction Voilà Korg monotribe, the successor to its little brother, the monotron. The Monotron is a cheap, squeeky, and easily moddable toy synth with an MS-10/20-like filter topology. It has a ribbon keyboard an audio oscillator, an LFO, a lowpass filter, and not much more. The monotron was an instant hit, ... http://blog.gg8.se/wordpress/2011/08/14/monotribe-midi-and-me/ My webhost recently started moving their customers to their new generation of servers, running LiteSpeed. This has caused me some grief the last few hours. One of my sites consistently showed a "403 access denied" error, seemingly no matter what I tried to do to remedy the problem. With some ... http://blog.gg8.se/wordpress/2011/08/08/500-infernal-terror/ There's a (relatively) well-known method of fixing dead lines on the DMG-01 (classic Gameboy) LCD screen which consists of dragging a hot soldering iron across the connection of the brown plastic connector with an epoxy blob, and the glass. The right spot in underneath where there's normally a black rubber ... http://blog.gg8.se/wordpress/2011/07/21/why-dead-horizontal-lines-are-harder-to-fix/