Kuensa portable music sequencer

This ongoing project, called Kuensa, is, according to its maker, “a small portable music sequencer which can be connected to USB MIDI and brought out whenever inspiration hits on the go.” It uses a Raspberry Pi Pico to handle the computing, and a Dream SAM2695 module to handle the audio. What we like here is that in order to put the two together, the maker has had to craft not one but two custom PCBs. If these had come out of a factory they’d be much smaller, but as they’re home-made (or rather, home-designed), they’re a lot bigger.

In fact, if you take apart any bit of audio hardware from the eighties, you’ll probably find PCBs that look similar lurking within. Technology that was state-of-the-art just a few years ago (yes the eighties were ‘just a few years ago’ as far as we’re concerned) is within the grasp of anyone with an internet connection and the imagination to use it today. We’ll be keeping a close eye on this project.