Circuit Bent Glitch Art Camera - LoFi Future Pocket Glitchamatic - Demo Footage

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"Some random clips i recently captured with one of the first Pocket Glitchamatic coming off of my tiny production line.

There are currently 3 cameras left to order on my website!
https://lofi-future.square.site/produ...

The LoFi Future Pocket Glitchamatic is a re-housed circuit bent camera based on a currently produced generic branded 5MP digital camera (capable of recording 720p AVI video files)

The circuit bends are brought out onto the new front panel in for form of six push buttons (5 latching one momentary for the GLITCH! function)

The Effects...

The pair of latching buttons labelled NEON result in a pink and green colour pallet that capture bright scenes in a surreal light. One of these buttons turns the effect on and off, while the other switches between two effect types. The dual-coloured led signifies the selected mode by either shining green, or red and will not illuminate when the effect is turned off.

The other pair latching buttons labelled BANDING create banding effects across the image. There are two types of banding and can both be selected at once. The bi colour LED here shines red for one mode, green for the other and orange when both are selected at once.

The latching button labelled NOISE introduces a cool lofi, grainy noise with a blue/purple hue. The single colour LED signifies when this effect is on or off.

All of the effects mentioned above reliably produce valid video files and pictures just like it was originally intended with the unmodified camera.

The GLITCH! button however creates unexpected, heavy glitches that veer into the unstable and experimental. It is a momentary button for this reason. In video mode it produces major frame drops in the recorded footage (you wont see this apparent on screen at the time of recording) Used sparingly in video mode, it can produce some great corruption effects. but go to heavy with it and it will spit out an unplayable video file!

In photo mode the GLITCH! button is a much more usable tool, though it sometimes will create a corrupt image file, it has a much better success rate in creating glitch imagery you could never have imagined! Its a truly experimental effect for the adventurous artist willing to accept the odd corrupt file for some heavy glitch gold!

Specifications:

Video: AVI (1280 x 720 or 640 x 480 resolution)
Photo: JPEG (2592 x 1944 or 2048 x 1536 resolution)
USB web cam mode resolution up to 640 x 480
Internal rechargeable battery life (3+ hours of use on a single charge, or can be powered externally via USB)
MicroSD card slot (up to 32GB)"

LoFi Future - GlitchNoir - Circuit Bent Black and White CCTV Camera

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"Available to order here: https://lofi-future.square.site/produ...

Limited run of 8 units! These are new old stock cameras and come included with a high quality JMK 3.5 -8mm 1:1.4 CS Lens With focus, zoom and aperture controls.

Along with the circuit bends the camera has a 50/60hz toggle switch installed allowing operation world wide (with both old CCIR (PAL) and EIA (NTSC) black and white video signals)

It can produce those melty circuit bend CCD sensor effects we all love so much, as well as glitchy invert effects all the way up to full blow monochrome glitch chaos! These cameras are particularly ghostly!

The included lenses features and aperture ring, which works as an amazing overall intensity control for the glitches.

Don't let the monochrome limitation put you off. These cameras have a definite vibe! Teamed up with a video mixer, some keying and colourisation this camera is also a great asset to colourful content creation.

Specifications:

CCIR (PAL) and EIA (NTSC) Compatible
12V DC 500ma power in (Not Included - uses standard CCTV power supply)
BNC Video out (BNC to RCA adapter included)
New and unused JMK 3.5-8mm Lens included"

VGA Feedback Video Synth / Audio Visualizer - LoFi Future FB-200

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"Available to order here: https://lofi-future.square.site/produ...

The FB-200 is an overall improvement to the previous version of this device, the FB-100.

Keeping the same enclosure and similar basic specs this particular unit features a much more thought out signal path resulting in a more intuitive machine. The composite video processing and control circuitry is exactly the same as the FB-1000, but with just 1 LFO that can be assigned to any colour instead of 3 independent LFOs as featured on the FB-1000.

The 3 RGB pots are backlit with the corresponding colour LED. These LEDs vary in brightness depending on how high or low that knob is set and also visualises the LFO speed when the LFO is assigned to it.

The toggle switch for each channel enables that channels audio input. The FB-200 features 3 independent audio inputs that allow you to visualise more than one audio element. These are not raw audio inputs, instead it uses a switching circuit that senses peaks in the audio and sends that channel to ground briefly. This results in the familiar horizontal lines but instead of behind red, green or blue lines, the lines are the sum of the other two colours resulting in a more complex colour pallet.

The LFO section is a sine / square LFO capable of really slow frequencies or audio range frequencies (selectable via toggle switch) 3 push buttons allow the LFO to be assigned to any of the RGB channels. When the audio rate is selected it results in scanlines that can be controlled and brought into harmony with the videos scan frequency, creating slowly moving horizontal lines.

The composite video modifier is essentially a hue and contrast control rolled into one. Its is a circuit that has been specifically designed for the purpose of creating more controllable feedback loops with the dual VGA scan converter / scaler setup. Turning the knob clockwise instantly causes intense colour separation between the red, green and blue channels in the feedback loop, preventing a single colour simply washing out the screen. A toggle switch acts as a colour boost causing the feedback to become overly intense and with the flip of a switch it is instantly back in your control."

GrooveBoy XL - Nanoloop Jam

Published on May 27, 2014 LoFiFuture·7 videos

GrooveBoy XL - MIDI testing

Published on Apr 28, 2014 LoFiFuture·6 videos

"Sending MIDI notes to 2 instances of Mgb, on MIDI channels 4 and 5."

LoFi Future - GrooveBoy XL - More testing.

Published on Apr 8, 2014 LoFiFuture·12 videos

"Testing the signal chain of this custom GBA based workstation synth. It has a mono analog synthacon LP/HP filter and stereo Deep blue delay clone."

LoFi Future - GrooveBoy XL Testing.

Published on Apr 7, 2014 LoFiFuture·11 videos

LoFi Future - GrooveBoy Prototype

via Adam on The MATRIXSYNTH Lounge

"This is my attempt at making the game boy a tactile and MIDI capable desktop synthesizer. LSDJ, Nanoloop and MGB all available at startup thanks to the built in flash cart. Currently working towards getting them made into CNC'd acrylic/wood enclosures. For now, this one is all handmade."


D.I.Y. MIDI Gameboy demo Published on Nov 19, 2013

"Here is a quick demo of a re-housed game boy advance SP with a built in arduinoboy. Using Midi GB software in this song, but the cart also has Nanoloop and LSDJ flashed to it.

I build devices like these under the pseudonym: LoFi Future

Check out http://lofifuture.tumblr.com/ and http://lofifuture.tumblr.com/ for more information on devices like this."

| Polyol | Mineral [Live Arrangement]

Published on Nov 21, 2013 Polyol·11 videos

"Geer used:

MPC500 [Sequencing + Drum samples]
Rehoused MIDI equipped Gameboy [Bass/Synth]
Rehoused Korg Monotron [Filter for gameboy/Synth]
DIY 8 step analog sequencer [Monotron Pith CV/Filter CV]
Yamaha R100 [Reverb]
3G LTD Mynah Plus 8-2-1 [Mixer]

I'm running Mgb on the Gameboy, and the audio out is sent into the filter input on the Monotron. The Monotron mixes the two signals (its own VCO and the Gameboy) to one mono output. The sequencer controls the monotron CV (or gate input, as it works so much better) and i switch it to the Cut off CV input a couple of minutes into the song. The MPC acts as the master clock, sending MIDI to the Gameboy, and sending a rimshot sample at 16th notes out of the right output. all of the other drums are send to the left output. A Yamaha r100 provides some reverb."

Note this is the first LoFi Future post.