Kaleidoscopico

Kaleidoscopico is a microcontroller demo that runs on a Raspberry Pi Pico 2. It placed 2nd in the Wild compo at Revision 2025. Read more.

• lft-kaleidoscopico-final.zip (Original release archive, with video, 204.3 MB)
• Linus Akesson - Kaleidoscopico.mp3 (Soundtrack, 7.3 MB)
• lft-kaleidoscopico.bin (Pico 2 firmware, raw binary, 700.6 kB)
• lft-kaleidoscopico.uf2 (Pico 2 firmware, UF2, 1.4 MB)
• kaleidoscopico-schematics.png (Schematics, 25.4 kB)
• kaleidoscopico-stripboard.pdf (Stripboard layout, 40.4 kB)

Posted Friday 25-Apr-2025 08:34, 11 comments.

Nine Explained

In this video and accompanying article I reveal how the seemingly impossible effect in Nine was pulled off. Read more.

Posted Friday 28-Feb-2025 09:10, 9 comments.

Nine

Nine is a small, seemingly impossible C64 demo that I released at Fjälldata 2025. Read more.

• lft-nine.prg (C64 executable, 14.0 kB)
• Linus Akesson - Nine.mp3 (MP3, 4.9 MB)
• Nine.sid (SID tune, 4.4 kB)

Posted Sunday 2-Feb-2025 08:11, 28 comments.

The Family Bass

I connected a Family BASIC keyboard to an NES via a bespoke adapter in order to play its unique triangle waveform live. Read more.

• Linus Akesson - Platform Hopping (Family Bass).mp3 (MP3, 5.7 MB)

Posted Friday 17-Jan-2025 07:59, 5 comments.

Withering Bytes

A short piece for human and machine. Read more.

• Linus Akesson - Withering Bytes.mp3 (MP3, 8.1 MB)

Posted Friday 6-Dec-2024 08:05, 0 comments.

Sommarfågel

A cover of the song Sommarfågel by Wintergatan, performed on a selection of my homemade 8-bit and 16-bit instruments. Read more.

Posted Friday 25-Oct-2024 08:51, 1 comment.

Interviewed at spillhistorie.no

I was featured in an article at the Norwegian retro-gaming site Spillhistorie. Read more.

Posted Friday 25-Oct-2024 07:32, 0 comments.