Over at Boing Boing Gadgets, Brownlee has the details on this Atari 400 stuffed with a DIY analog music synthesizer. I like how none of the knobs is labeled. "Atari 400 goes analog synth"
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5:53 pm Tue
Jan 13, 2009
Atari 400 converted into music synth
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