I’ll be at Maker Faire Detroit on July 30-Aug 1, at a table along with circuit benders Creme Dementia and the band CMKT4. If you’re in the area, please stop by to demo all the Unatronics standards and a few new, experimental pieces.
The Beat-Bike bicycle-controlled drum machine will be set up [...]

I’m thinking about making my next synth/drum machine using a microcontroller like the Arduino rather than all analog chips, which is what I’ve been doing.
The thinking is that I can implement read MIDI instead of the CV pulses I’ve been using to sync things, which is more accessible to the general public.
Also, It would enable [...]

Getlofi has just posted the details for this year’s Experimental Garage Sale. I won’t be there in person but Chicago Buck will be my agent, and I’m going to make sure he’s loaded up with goodies:

Experimental Garage Sale 2010, June 5th.
Circuit Bent Instruments, Un-Bent Gear, Parts, Vintage Components, + Other. Custom lamps. GetLoFi Kits. [...]

With much thanks to Grant Bussinger, I proudly present my new website: Unatronics.com
I will maintain this blog to discuss art and technology things, but also Unatronics has it’s own tumblr and twitter. Friend and RSS those mofos for maximum info on new product development and experimentation.
There’s also a shiny new store set up to [...]

Greetings, earth friends. I’ve been a busy bee building synths in my studio these past few weeks, but I’ve also lined up a few events that should be a lot of fun.
Event the first: I will be performing live at Grinnell College in Grinnell, IA along with Austin Cliffe (Creme Dementia) and Alex [...]

Hi all. This Friday I’ll be playing a new set at Notox, a recently opened designer toy store/art gallery in Chicago’s Pilsen arts district.
I’ll be employing some new handmade instruments, including the first finished Seeq-it synthesizer which should be up for sale in the next few weeks. Accompanying me will be excelent video [...]

Hannes Pasqualini is an illustrator, comic artist, and musician/noisemaker in Italy. He bought one my my Beep-its a few months back and wrote me today to describe the modifications he’s made to it. Inspired by Gijs Gieskes’ Fan Synth, Hannes added a speed-controlled fan in front of the light sensor to modulate the [...]

I’ve finished a new run of Beep-it Deluxe and have some available for purchase through my Etsy site. Thanks to everyone for the interest and support.

Big news in the past two weeks- after some fierce competition and harrowing interviews, I have been named as Scale Well’s first grant recipient.
Scale Well is a Chicago-based consortium of entreprenuers who’ve all pitched in to start a fund for helping small businesses level-up. The organization was just founded a few months ago, but [...]

Lately I’ve been working to learn my way around Processing, a free open-souce visual programming language. There’s a lot of great documentation and people always adding new libraries to it that do a lot of the heavy lifting for complex functions.
Also, a lot of people post their code online, so if you want to [...]