A fun day designing the Chocolate SynthBox

I think I’m feeling better. I’m making things again.

I’ve decided that I need to complete the meal that started with the MIDI Cheesebox and Crackers MIDI Controller. So I’ve started work on a Chocolate Synthbox. This going to be a Raspberry Pi powered synthesizer that you can plug the other two devices into. It’ll have built in stereo speakers, a flashy matrix display and a couple of rotary encoders. I’m going to use a Raspberry Pi PICO to do all the low level interfacing and link it to a Pure Data patch running in the Pi that will make all the sounds.

I’ve had a lovely day today designing the case you can see above. The idea is to get it right first time, as the printing times for a box this big are a bit long.

With a bit of luck I should get it working in time to reveal it to the world at emf in June.