Parallelogram

Parallelogram is a demo running on the Commodore One extender board, which contains an Altera Cyclone III FPGA and an SDRAM chip. The logic design was made from scratch, including a homebrew CPU, FM synth and blitter with pixel shader support. The demo won the wild compo at Revision 2012. Read more.

• lft_parallelogram_core (C-One core file and icon, zip archive, 332 KB)

• lft_parallelogram (Presentation video with captured demo, avi, 517 MB)

• Linus Akesson - Parallelogram (Soundtrack, MP3, 5.1 MB)

Posted Wednesday 11-Apr-2012 22:03, 15 comments.

We learn the nibbles

Here's a simple and playful way to memorise the sixteen hexadecimal numbers, along with their binary representations. Perfect for the bathroom wall! Read more.

• We_learn_the_nibbles (Inkscape SVG, 3.1 MB)

• We_learn_the_nibbles_Large (PNG, 13991 x 9863, 7.0 MB)

• We_learn_the_nibbles_Sliced (PDF, sliced into 8 pages, 1.4 MB)

Posted Sunday 25-Mar-2012 17:46, 2 comments.

The bitbuf

The bitbuf is a portable 8-bit minimalistic live looping machine. Designed as a tool for chip music improvisation and live performances, it aims to provide a set of simple yet versatile features. It's a work in progress, but I've made a prototype which is already quite functional and enjoyable to work with. Read more.

• lft_bitbuf_presentation (Video, 646 MB)

Posted Thursday 22-Dec-2011 14:20, 122 comments.

Castlevania

Two well-known pieces from the Castlevania series: Vampire Killer by Kinuyo Yamashita and Bloody Tears by Kenichi Matsubara. Read more.

• lft_chipophone_castlevania (DivX, 173 MB)

• Linus Akesson - Chipophone - Castlevania (MP3, 2.3 MB)

Posted Saturday 17-Sep-2011 19:11, 1 comment.

Live at LCP 2011

I was given the opportunity to perform live with my chipophone at Little Computer People in Lund. Here is a recording of the concert, courtesy of SceneSat, along with video provided by members of the audience. Read more.

Posted Sunday 21-Aug-2011 12:20, 3 comments.

Pipe Logic

Delightfully useless epiphany: Suppose the null-byte is an electron. Then, /dev/zero provides an infinite supply of electrons and /dev/null has an infinite appetite for them. Let's call these devices Vss and Vdd, respectively. Read more.

Posted Tuesday 2-Aug-2011 09:48, 18 comments.

Presentation tool

Here's a brief technical writeup of the slide show presentation tool I built for my Elements of Chip Music seminar. Read more.

Posted Friday 1-Jul-2011 08:31, 4 comments.