Nakedboards Academy
An open archive of knowledge on the design, programming and performance of electronic instruments. Every instrument has two lives: the one you hear, and the one hidden under the panel. Nakedboards Academy is about both. Here we share everything we know about playing, programming and building instruments — freely and openly.

What you will find here
Playing — guides and lessons on working with nakedboards instruments: from first connections and MIDI settings to advanced patching on Archean and building your own setups with MC controllers and eurorack modules.

Code — programming lessons on Teensy, Arduino, Max/MSP and more. Learn how the firmware works, write your own, and turn an instrument into something it was never designed to be.

Circuits — schematics explained step by step. How oscillators, filters and sensors work, how a eurorack module is designed, and how to go from an idea to a working device.

Learn. Modify. Break. Rebuild.

All materials are free. Take them, use them in your own projects, share them with others.

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