XinT

By anders pearson 01 May 2001

Q: what do you get when you mix together the following?

  • one Z-80 microprocessor (state of the art… in 1976. 3.7MHz. 8 registers. 2K of RAM)
  • about 20 bucks worth of misc. electronic parts
  • 2 antennae
  • a few hundred hours of time that really ought to be spent on more important things, but…
  • 4 engineering students with just enough knowledge to be dangerous
  • a love of obscure musical instruments
  • and a unhealthy desire to produce lots of loud, fucked up noises that will annoy the hell out of anyone in a ten block radius.

A: you get XinT, the world’s first microprocessor controlled digital theremin. designed and built from scratch by yours truly and 3 other depraved (and now slightly more deaf than before) engineers.

for the bargain-basement price of $10,000 USD, the XinT team will even custom build one for you.

(sound clips are on their way)