This is a battery-powered, lo-fi drum machine designed for live performance. It uses random numbers to make unpredictable beats. It is now available to buy online.

I'm always happy to discuss commissions for bespoke effects pedals, synth modules, MIDI controllers, etc.

This is a digital modular synthesizer with polyphonic capability. The design is based on a Teensy 3.6, which detects patch cables between different modules and processes the signal chain digitally, providing an alternative route into modular synthesis.

This is a digital synthesizer designed to be played as a guitar. The conductive plectrum and six-part digital frets transmit musical data to the internal synthesizer chip (a Teensy 3.6 running the Teensy audio library).

A work-in-progress online drum machine (of sorts). While researching how to synthesize drum sounds without using samples, I realised that a lot of synthetic drum sounds are created from fairly simple sound sources, such as white noise or a sine wave. This made me wonder about the possibility of feeding other, more complex sounds through a series of effects to create unusual drum sounds which fulfil a similar percussive role to the kick, snare, hi-hat, etc, but which sound noticeably different.

I've been writing for Hackspace Magazine on and off since mid-2018, but this was my first cover feature, and by far the longest piece I've written for them. I wrote a tutorial on how to build a robot glockenspiel which can either play preset melodies, be triggered via a MIDI input, or act as an internet-of-things alarm clock.

A list of my articles for Hackspace magazine