What if I bought an old FM sound chip, the kind used in old arcade cabinets, and wired it up

I have an arduino to use to control it

And it costs like 4bux

cool weekend project

@ArrBianca I've got heavy, heavy nostalgia for the old DOS sound hardware I grew up with, is all. Consoles were a smaller part of that. But hardware audio rendering always seems like such cool black magic to me.

Ever seen one of those modular synth setups that's just like, a wall of interconnected, blinking modules? It's so pretty!

@SomeEgrets Gosh yes. Definite "if I won the lottery" goals. Those things are crazy expensive.

@SomeEgrets My ebay cart is slowly filling up with the ICs I'll need to put this together

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