Kaossonome rears its head; Guitar Center changes name to Arduino Center

Every time we turn around, there's another amazing new blinking, knobby, button-pressy little sound-maker making cute-weird-alien noises, lacing up our shoes or controlling our remote control cars for us, and it all seems to be Arduino's fault. That's fine by us.

Alexander Randon (his awesome, real name) has brought a devastatingly charming monster to the MIDI controller game in the Kaossonome - inspired, not-so-surprisingly, by Korg's Kaoss family and the minimalist Monome. It's a touchscreen laid on top of 256 LEDs, encased in a aluminum-wood-plexiglass box 8 chunky, push-button laced knobs. While none of these elements is particularly new, the whole package and execution just seems to kick things up a notch or two. Check out the green-glow mutant bassline after the break.

[DaHarder Posted Jul 9th 2010 2:33PM]

Hmmm? Just doesn't roll off the tongue quite as easily.

[distributed Posted Jul 9th 2010 2:50PM]

@DaHarder Just imagine gargling and it will roll off the tongue pretty easy! :-p

[soypancho Posted Jul 9th 2010 3:03PM]

Pronounced 'chaos-a-gnome', emphasis on the 'oss'

[MichaelJJackson Posted Jul 9th 2010 2:40PM]

Whatever you got, I want

[phlavor Posted Jul 9th 2010 4:04PM]

@MichaelJJackson I'll take a bushel or a pack or whatever. Just gimmie.

[caprice Posted Jul 9th 2010 2:51PM]

while I don't care to get my hands on a Kaoss pad soon, this would be a lot of fun to mess with

[kitface Posted Jul 9th 2010 2:55PM]

BLINKING LEDS! MUST BUY!

[grundy923 Posted Jul 9th 2010 4:46PM]

read as far as "Every time we turn around, there's another amazing new blinking, knobby, button-pressy" and couldn't handle the wordiage of this acrticule

[niclet Posted Jul 9th 2010 6:55PM]

Whooooooh! Cheeezy, yeahhhhhh!

[miki4242 Posted Jul 10th 2010 1:05PM]

Awesome! Would love to see this at some festival or other. Workshop might be even better.

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