The Chipophone is a homemade 8-bit synthesizer, especially suited for live chiptune playing. It has been built inside an old electronic organ. www.linusakesson.net

Spellbound, composed by Rob Hubbard in 1986, performed on the Chipophone. www.linusakesson.net

Full screen video, source code, schematics and more at: www.linusakesson.net 1st place at Breakpoint 2008, in the Console / Real Wild compo.

In an attempt to squeeze as much emotion as possible into a tiny chip, I managed to fit Camille Saint-Saëns' The Swan into 480 (out of 1024) bytes of ROM on an ATtiny15. The microcontroller runs at 1.6 MHz and provides 32 bytes of RAM (actually registers). Source code and schematics: www.linusakesson.net

1st place in Console / Real Wild compo at Breakpoint 2009. For more information: www.linusakesson.net

Legend of Zelda, composed by Koji Kondo in 1986, performed on the Chipophone.

This is a proper video capture of Phasor, an ATmega88 demo that I posted earlier this year. The video was provided to me by Barta Zoli from Hungary, for which I am very grateful. The demo is running on an ATmega88 microcontroller, with 1 kB of RAM and 8.5 kB of ROM, and it generates a PAL composite signal with the help of two diodes and two transistors. Learn more at www.linusakesson.net Youtube has added a lot of compression artifacts to this video. You can download the original here: www.linusakesson.net

www.linusakesson.net Hardware, software & music by kryo. Fifth place in the wild compo at Birdie 17.

DuckTales, "The Moon" level, composed by Yoshihiro Sakaguchi (?) in 1989, performed on the Chipophone.

Title theme for the C64 game Delta, composed by Rob Hubbard in 1987, performed live on the Chipophone. The piece was heavily inspired by the final movement of the Koyaanisqatsi soundtrack which was composed by Philip Glass in 1982.