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Arduino Chiptunes - 90's Computer Console Audio Awesomeness - Now With 1/3rd More Awesome on Arduino

If you're like me and spent hours and hours in front of a TV as a youth with blobs and sprites racing across the screen to approximate things in real life - often note very well - then you'll remember the accompanying tunes blairing out as you race, jump or weaved across levels. They're a cross between a cricket on LSD and a guitar in a blender but they're happily burned into my brain. 
Well these fine Arduino folk have created a chip tune demo on an Arduino and all you'll need is an arduino, a speaker and some power. Check it out.
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Beat Box Makes Beautiful Music Using RFID tags - looks cool while doing it.

Possibly not the future of DJing but a very way to experience music in a new way. Play a vinal 'record' disc in one of four locations to induce the aural delight. Source Link Here
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Aspiring geek musician plays Still Alive using old floppy drives and an Arduino

Quote from Geek.Com
"Before you throw out those old floppy drives you had stored in a box in the garage, you may want to take a look at a code project that breathes new life into those doorstops. How so you ask? By making sweet, sweet music for gaming geeks across the world. Introducing Moppy, a musical floppy controller that was written to run on an Arduino Uno."
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