OWL Programmable Effects Pedal on Kickstarter

"The OWL is an open source, open hardware, reprogrammable effects pedal designed for musicians, coders, and hackers.

With some coding and DSP knowledge, the OWL can become any kind of audio effect that you can imagine. Effects can be combined in any number of ways by chaining or switching between them.

Using a provided C++ framework, effects can be developed, compiled and loaded to the on-board ARM Cortex M4 chip with no proprietary tools or hardware-specific knowledge.

The OWL gives coders the chance to implement their own effects and become part of an open-source audio developer community. For those who don’t write code there is a growing http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/marser/owl-programmable-effects-pedalcollection of patches available for immediate download and use in the patch library.

With a strong emphasis on open-source hardware and software, the OWL is perfect starting point for anyone wanting to experiment with embedded audio, or for those wanting to to learn more about audio programming and Digital Signal Processing in general.

For musicians:

Load patches from your computer via USB
Collection of sample patches available and growing
Standard guitar pedal inputs/outputs
For developers:

Write code for a hardware DSP architecture in plain C/C++
no hardware specific coding required
Open source platform and tool chain
Access to all low level ARM functions..."

Additional details on Kickstarter.

Note this is the first OWL post.