Bradshaw Instruments

Maker of electronic musical instruments. Inventor of Drumkid, aleatoric drum machine. 2x Hackaday Prize finalist. Accepting commissions for custom pedals etc.

[Bradshaw Instruments @NerdOnTheWire]

my drum machine is now also available on @Etsy, in a slightly fancier box than before https://t.co/PR0wAB9KT7

[Bradshaw Instruments @NerdOnTheWire]

Moving to Bluesky, can't be arsed with Elon's childish right-wing nonsense. See you there @mattbradshaw.bsky.social

[Programmer Humor @PR0GRAMMERHUM0R]

everyoneShouldUseGit https://t.co/tlgE04f4X6

[Bradshaw Instruments @NerdOnTheWire]

Spent an enjoyable evening chatting to @schnoodlevideo about past, present and future projects

[Bradshaw Instruments @NerdOnTheWire]

@JeremySCook @adafruit Something like this? https://t.co/HW1snGc44e The DAC is a PCM5100A, I've used it with and without the breakout in a prototype drum machine recently, got it working with both Python and C/C++

[Bradshaw Instruments @NerdOnTheWire]

Started testing Drumkid 2 prototype this week. By far the most complex PCB I've designed, and it works! Have avoided anything beyond the realm of 5V Arduino-ish digital circuits until now, so levelling up to op-amps, Eurorack, multiple power rails etc has been quite a jump

[Bradshaw Instruments @NerdOnTheWire]

Working on Drumkid 2 today. Using a mixture of Google and ChatGPT to learn enough about transistors that I can add a clock input for Eurorack compatibility. Very grateful to the designers who've shared their schematics!

[Bradshaw Instruments @NerdOnTheWire]

If you've got anything you wanted to achieve in the "early twenties" rather than the "mid twenties", by my reckoning you've got about 10 days.

[Bradshaw Instruments @NerdOnTheWire]

You can play the whole of Country Roads except the middle 8 using only the pentatonic scale

[Bradshaw Instruments @NerdOnTheWire]

Anyway baby is awake now. I think the song should probably just stay as it is

[Bradshaw Instruments @NerdOnTheWire]

Child 2's "lullaby" (a song I don't mind singing over and over) is Suzanne by Leonard Cohen. There are three verses, each ending with a variant of "for you've touched her perfect body with your mind". When you've sung the song several hundred times, you start to go a bit mad 🧵

[Bradshaw Instruments @NerdOnTheWire]

And maybe no-one can touch Jesus's body because [something complicated about body and spirit and holy ghosts etc upon which my broadly secular upbringing leaves me unqualified to speculate]?

[Bradshaw Instruments @NerdOnTheWire]

On behalf of everyone with kids can I request that we stop dicking around with the clocks every few months? I no longer have any concept of time

[Bradshaw Instruments @NerdOnTheWire]

Controversial opinion: if a pub can't do good roast potatoes (and most can't) then just use Aunt Bessie's or something

[Bradshaw Instruments @NerdOnTheWire]

However much I claim to be into interesting, niche artists, however much I listen to experimental microtonal music, however far down the modular synthesis rabbit hole I go, I still really like the Stereophonics

[Bradshaw Instruments @NerdOnTheWire]

She's answering a lot of questions with "well, I'm afraid my faith says [some regressive bullshit]". So get a different faith. Or think for yourself.

[Pippa Crerar @PippaCrerar]

Watching Kate Forbes’ leadership campaign unravel like this is excruciating 🤯

[Bradshaw Instruments @NerdOnTheWire]

Parenting tip: do not invent a game called "Mystery Ride" in which you put your toddler in the washing basket, cover him with a towel, sing "where are we going on the mystery ride?" and fly him to random rooms in the house. He will never allow you to stop. Everything hurts

[Bradshaw Instruments @NerdOnTheWire]

@_Jo_Mo Should clarify that this is a pedal I imagined, not one that I saw!

[Bradshaw Instruments @NerdOnTheWire]

Guitar pedal called The Maypole with a clear top, circuit board looks like a meadow, one long pot shaft painted to look like a maypole, tiny ribbons twist when you turn the ornate single knob. Little model morris people milling around on PCB. No idea what it does