With its central profusion of arcade buttons, the Midibox promises satisfaction: this is an electronic musical instrument to be pounded like a 6-button fighter. Built around a PIC microcontroller—a low cost computer chip backed by a vast library of applications—it has 16 knobs, 5 faders, 32 MIDI controlled LED buttons, and 16 arcade buttons.
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it looks like quite a ha-do-kit.
It Shoryuken does look like a blast to use.
I'm sure in it's use it'll be made to run the Gauntlet too.
MIDIBox is a collection of circuit designs for DIYing your own controller (not an instrument per se - you've got to plug it into some more hardware for it to be a noisemaker - though there are some synthy things as part of the MIDIBox project). Its only William's particular MIDIBox that has these exact specs, or those particular nifty buttons and faders.
They sure are awesome buttons, though.
It's interesting what you can build that tekk entoo.
I'm already thinking up a "Death Star Manager" game one could play with this.
Non-commercial? BOO! Want!