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Really, I am.  Working on some new entries and a new project.  I'm not dead yet!

Plucked from the innards of Commodore 64s consigned to the Craigslist 'Free' section come three MOS 6581 SID sound chips from 82-86 era computers.  Why tinker with old, dusty hardware like this?  The sound!

They have a very unique sound which hasn't really been duplicated in the 25+ years since the introduction of the Commodore. I was not a Commodore kid; I grew up with a Tandy, but I wasted many happy hours at my neighbor's home playing on his C64.  The plan is to stuff 1 or more of these chips into a new DIY synthesizer, most likely a Midibox SID.  I'll post the build log as I get to it, although I still have to post up about my success with an ArduinoBT and a Peggy 2 lightboard.

Please vote for Rebound Designs as this year's craftiest bastard!

Nice overview of changes and new features from Kineme.net:

http://kineme.net/Discussion/DevelopingCompositions/QuartzComposerSnowLeopardNewPatchesandFeatures

I haven't updated to SL yet - I always wait to read the bug reports before diving in - but probably will this week.  I'm curious to try out the new feedback and interaction patches.

Finished building my Adafruit GPS shield this afternoon, and decided to take it for a test drive this evening.  Bad news is that I got ridiculously lost and stuck in downtown traffic, good news is that (mirabile dictu) the GPS works.  Here's my inaugural drive: