The first steps in getting sound output on my arduino are done, I’ve succesfully hooked up the ISD1700 chips with all the analogue gubbins that it needs and made it record from my laptops line-out. Had a little fun with this, the chip requires a resistor to set the sample rate. For what I’m doing it needs to be about 56K – the only one I could find was about 20 years old and covered in crud :/ Funnily it works but seems to vary in resistance, giving the sounds a great “fucked up vinyl” quality :d Might experiment with this and do some circuit bending style things with the other 4 I have

As of 9:45 this evening, the memory on the first chip is filled with eels

The next stage is to control it with the SPI bus from the arduino, shouldnt be too bad

Oh yeah, I’ve also gone on a domain registering bender – I now own http://upthear.se Thanks to Domain Hacks for that

Also ordered myself a 16x DVD burner laser module, plan to do some computer controlled laser cutting with it (or just piss cats off from miles away)