https://www.decodedmagazine.com/what-is-behringer-up-to-open-hardware-vibecoding-and-the-150-sampler/

Behringer is going all in on open hardware, and by extension on vibecoding: the idea that anyone with a ChatGPT account can now describe the software they want and have an AI write it for them. As Pepper Brooks put it in Dodgeball, it’s a bold strategy, Cotton. Let’s see if it pays off.

HE WAS KICKED OUT OF A MUSIC STORE BECAUSE HE COULDN’T AFFORD ANYTHING.

That young musician was Uli Behringer.

That experience inspired a mission: Democratize music technology and empower those who have not and cannot.

Nearly 40 years later, we’re taking that mission to another level.

INTRODUCING BEHRINGER KICK — OUR FIRST OPEN-SOURCE HARDWARE SAMPLER!

Target retail price: around US$150.

But this is about much more than affordability.

We’re opening up our hardware and software so anyone can create, modify and reinvent what an instrument can do.

With AI, even people without programming experience can turn their ideas into new features and firmware.

We build the hardware. YOU create the possibilities.

Imagine millions of creators innovating together instead of a handful of engineers behind closed doors.

KICK is just the beginning. More open platforms will follow shortly. Stay tuned.

Because there is a creator in every human being.

KICK Source Code:
https://github.com/MusicTribeOpenSource/0700-AAM

All Open-Source Projects:
https://github.com/MusicTribeOpenSource

Join Our Discord:
https://discord.gg/gS6qtuShvw

What would YOU create with KICK?

Built by Behringer. Reimagined by everyone.

#Behringer #OpenSource #KICK

Anyone who’s ever built their own motors knows how tedious winding the coils soon becomes; in [Larry]’s case, the issue was even worse. He’s building his own flip-dot matrix display, and each dot uses two electromagnetic coils to flip a magnet in the dot. Rather than wind each of these by hand, therefore, he built his own coil-winding machine.

The coil winder uses two stepper motors: one to wind wire onto the bobbin, and one to move the wire guide carriage back and forth, distributing the wire evenly across the bobbin.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGG2LAs_c9M

The RepRapMicron (also µRepRap) is pretty much the microscopic take on what RepRap did for more macroscale manufacturing, with the most recent innovation being a UV print head, called the PIKA UV Head. What this does is use off-the-shelf optical fiber and UV LED modules to create 3D structures in-situ in a UV resin, allowing for pretty small structures to be printed, down to a resolution of about 9 µm.

https://hackaday.com/2026/10/24/pushing-bluetooth-out-to-12-kilometers/