The Credit Card Synth Contest

[Inventor]

Welcome to the Credit Card Synth Contest!

You are given a circuit board of size 3.35" x 2.10", exactly the size of a credit card, and you must create the best synth that you can in that space. We will each design and construct a music generating circuit in that form factor and the winner will get, um, nothing! Well maybe I'll make some chainmaille or give a Karplus Strong circuit board out as a prize or something, but yeah no real prize - just the coolness of having made your own credit card synth.

Rules: "We don't need no stinkin' rules!" So just make a good one. You can use perfboard or a small breadboard or etch your own circuit board(s) or have some made at a professional board house, your call. Just be forewarned, You'll have to compete with my BSKS design which you can review in the following thread:

http://electro-music.com/forum/topic-41976.html

That's my entry and I'll be working on it toward the end of the year and into next year (2011). Use your PICs, your Lunettas, your digital, your analog, etc. to build your design entry. There is no need to make production quality stuff, onesie-twosies are OK, but if you do make pro stuff then maybe we can get someone to sell your boards and make a profit, who knows?

I'm open to suggestions for time frame, height limit, form factor and whatever restrictions, but I'd rather leave everything open ended for maximum creativity on your part.

More fun from Les

[Rykhaard]

Oooo!

Just thought - if there're a lot of entries by chance, then different 'classes'? Analog, Digital and PIC?

[Inventor]

I say we just vote on it, may the best Credit Card Synth win! I can add a vote to the main post once entries are recieved, say early next year?

Les

[Rykhaard]