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Playing Ben Heck's Atari Junk Keyboard (Patreon)

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2017-02-15 23:52:43
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So Ben Heck sent this to me after building it on his show, but not being able to actually tune it or play anything.  So I took a shot at it.

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Playing Ben Heck's Atari Junk Keyboard

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Comments

Anonymous

Yes! I love collaborations. :D

Lorin Millsap

On one hand, I think it's awesome that you were able to get it to work and play it. I'm not in love with the sound. To me it sounds like bagpipes. But it was interesting and entertaining.

8BitGuy1
>>3948677

Yeah.. it doesn't sound as good as most toy keyboards.. but the idea was the proof-of-concept.

Lorin Millsap

Oh sure. I found it very interesting. And I do love proof of concept stuff.

Anonymous
>>3948640

Very cool! Thanks for recording this. I watched the original Ben Heck episode and was glad to see it pop up again on your channel. I understand you have a ton of other projects, but it would be fun to see you debug / improve on the design some time.

John Tuccitto

8bitguy is like Bob Vila for electronics.

Anders Enger Jensen

Haha, didn't know you guys were working on this. Well, weird Ben didn't mention this, but what you guys experienced with the unstability is exactly what really old analogue synths do. Without complex control circuitry and the quartz crystal timers etc, these things go chaotic due to heat fluctuations etc. And in conjunction with shipping and not securing the internal boards, yeah... Anyway, great stuff! We love it. Not sure if I'll be able to make a remix of this tune though...or maybe challenge accepted...? 😜

Anonymous

This thing looks more like the 90s than actual keyboards from the 90s do. It's awesome - even if it didn't work for very long.

Anonymous

Great Episode!!, collaborations are the best, I saw the junk keyboard many parts episode and it took long time to be builded so I understand Ben Heck!. It's a shame that it failed in the end, It would be nice to hear something in the future.