FM-1: Amazing things are happening with this little synth

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David Hilowitz shows how the M-Vave FM-1, a cheap pocket synth, grew a homebrew firmware scene: firmwarehub.com went from 45 firmwares to 154 in two weeks. Developers reverse-engineered it with no official SDK, and M-Vave later released an open-source one. Eleven minutes on what happens when people start writing their own software for a small device.