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This best thing about this is that it uses the Commodore 64 sound chip and wasn’t just another “I crammed a bunch of stuff into a retro device case” project.
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The other best thing about this is that it uses an FPGA to process the sound before the SID chip. Not many audio hackers get into FPGAs.
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Jeri’s awesome 
Kinda sad her CastAR never took off, but good to see you can’t keep a good maker down!
Wait a minute, this looks familiar.
Parallel evolution, of course.
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Did that thing ever play music? I only remember Harold using it to screen-wipe to the next sketch.
Not that I know of. If its precise utility and origin was ever explained, it was probably in an early episode that I missed along the way.
Someone stole Jeri’s C64 guitar a while back. Just in case you ever see it on eBay or Craigslist or on a blanket on Canal St.
If you wanted something that was booming even now, I guess you’d make equipment that did hard X-ray / advanced light source beam line experiments that also happen to be musical somehow? Or the light gizmos that are called LIDAR for self-driving cars, but are more like helical recording equipment (spinning magnet heads) with semiconductor lasers in. Are there Java apps, or…
Stuff set to soft-start on the audience’s EEG at assisted living places rather than be prescriptive tonal EEG stuff, maybe. Oh great, another coven for Soundgarden.
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