The latest item of interest presented by Casper Electronics could easily take centerstage at the next hardware hacking social. Casper's Benjolin Light Synth provides an intense show of color as accompaniment for its broad and unpredictable sonic palette -

This piece is built around the 2 Benjolin circuits, which is a complex, analog sound generator designed by engineer/artist/super star Rob Hordijk. I've made a bunch of modifications and added a 3 channel light globe. The globe has three high intensity LED lights in it, RED, GREEN and BLUE. I'm able to grab different signals from the circuit (not JUST the audio signal) and send them to the lights, so each color is fading and strobing in a different pattern. The result is complex color mixing madness.

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