Reading this week's ATtiny-themed builds, [Thomas] was reminded one of his coolest builds. His midi808 project used an ATtiny2313 to sync a vintage Roland 808 drum machine to his Logic workstation. Even though MIDI had been around for a few years when 808s were being made, the CPU in the 808 isn't exactly up to the task of handling MIDI. Instead, the 808 used an interface known as DIN Sync that … [Read more...]